It's more colorful, moves faster, and has more believable children, who occasionally even have dirty faces.

Dolittle,' which had more mush than you could wade through. Buy Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Book in Antiquarian and Collectable Books and get the best deals at the lowest prices on eBay Great Savings & Free Delivery. What everybody liked was the way Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (that's the name of the car) could float and fly, and the way grandpa ( Lionel Jeffries in a marvelous performance) was lifted up into the sky by mean Baron Bomburst's balloon (hilariously commanded by Gert Frobe as the baron).īut let me add, to be fair, that 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' is a lot better than last year's 'Dr. At least, I didn't see any kids who looked interested. The CastCHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, screenplay by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes, based on the Ian Fleming novel directed by Mr. This was apparently meant for the adults. Well, '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 moments when you've just GOT to cover your face and peek between your fingers, it's so scary.īut the trouble is, these two hours of fun are surrounded by about another 45 minutes of soppy love songs, corny ballads and a lot of mushy stuff. Or at least they aren't in the market for a children's movie that throws in a so-called 'grownup scene' every once in a while. Now what do the kids want to see? A kid's movie! And what about the others in the audience, the grown-ups? They want to see a kid's movie too, I suspect. The audience for 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,' pretty obviously, is going to be kids - and the parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents and older brothers and sisters they drag along.

It would be useless for me to review 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' from an adult point of view, because most adults are not going to see it voluntarily. A timeline wall will chart the Chitty story from its beginnings as James Bond creator Ian Flemings inspirational book about the magical flying car to Cubby.

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