Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

G,

1968,

2h 25m,

Kids & Family/

Musical/

Fantasy/

Adventure

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While truant from school, young siblings Jeremy and Jemima meet the beautiful Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes), who falls for their widowed father, Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke), and his various oddball inventions, including the family's noisy rebuilt car, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. One day at the beach, Caractacus tells Truly and the children a fanciful fable about the villainous Baron Bomburst (Gert Frobe) and his evil designs on the Potts family car.

Tom Milne

Time Out

Jun 24, 2006

Ken Adam's sets are inventive, but the special effects are shoddy, the songs instantly forgettable, and the leisurely length an exquisite torture.

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Renata Adler

New York Times

May 9, 2005

A fast, dense, friendly children's musical, with something of the joys of singing together on a team bus on the way to a game.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Oct 23, 2004

3/4

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang contains about the best two-hour children's movie you could hope for, with a marvelous magical auto and lots of adventure and a nutty old grandpa and a mean Baron and some funny dances and a couple of [scary] moments.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

Jul 5, 2023

3/5

…casting Van Dyke helps diffuse the Britishness of the whole enterprise, but Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is an ideal vehicle for him, and for everyone keen to connect with their own innocent youth…

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Judy Ludlum

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Mar 3, 2022

This is a good one to take the kiddies to before the holidays end. Mom and Pop will find it tolerable and that's all.

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Penelope Houston

The Spectator

Jul 5, 2018

Ken Hughes directs in the resolutely bright over- exclamatory tones of someone working hard to make the party go.

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Jan 27, 2019

The best musical movie ever made!

Kylo R

Jan 13, 2019

Perhaps it was magnificent in its time but now nearly 50 years later Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is an excruciatingly long movie with annoying songs and terrible visual effects.

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Han R

Nov 6, 2018

This film was unwatchable.

Kylo W

Nov 3, 2018

I've seen this movie dozens of times since my childhood. It is always been a favorite. It still holds true to this day. I'm sitting here watching it right now and felt compelled to add a review. Although it is a children's movie, it still brings me back as an adult. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang rates up there with movies' best supercars... The Batmobile, the Delorean from Back to the Future and KITT from Knight Rider. Dick Van Dyke is always fun to watch with his clumsy exuberance. And Sally Ann Howes is both likeable and beautiful and brings the character of Truly Scrumptious to life. I love the cameo by Desmond llewelyn, better known as Q from James Bond at the beginning of the movie. This movie written by Ian Fleming, the author of James Bond, produced by Albert Cubby Broccoli, the producer of James Bond movies, and having the gadgets and special car like the James Bond movies... It makes Dick Van Dyke's character of Caractacus Potts seem like a clumsy singing James Bond. And who can forget Benny Hill as the toy maker and of course the evil child catcher who gave me the creeps as a kid and it's still creepy to this day. All in all this movie has a little bit of everything. Highly recommended!

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Theodore W

Nov 1, 2018

In my mind this film is the absolute epithane of what a children's film should be. The music is great and so is everything else!

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Oct 31, 2018

How could you not love this film ... great actors, interesting and funny script and musical numbers that will be stuck in your head for weeks (thankfully in a good way)!

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Ken Hughes

Director

Dick Van Dyke

Caractacus Potts

Sally Ann Howes

Truly Scrumptious

Lionel Jeffries

Grandpa Potts

Gert Fröbe

Baron Bomburst

Anna Quayle

Baroness Bomburst

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Synopsis

While truant from school, young siblings Jeremy and Jemima meet the beautiful Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes), who falls for their widowed father, Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke), and his various oddball inventions, including the family's noisy rebuilt car, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. One day at the beach, Caractacus tells Truly and the children a fanciful fable about the villainous Baron Bomburst (Gert Frobe) and his evil designs on the Potts family car.

Director: Ken Hughes
Producer: Albert R. Broccoli
Screenwriter: Roald Dahl
Distributor: CBS/Fox, United Artists, MGM Home Entertainment, Time-Life Video, Fox
Production Co: Warfield, Dramatic Films
Rating: G
Genre: Kids & Family, Musical, Fantasy, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 18, 1968, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 12, 2017
Runtime: 2h 25m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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