The most fantasmagorical musical entertainment in the history of everything!
A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Apr 20227/10
This was never my favourite musical as child, but as I get older I think I appreciate it more. Sure, it has it's cheesy moments, but there is genuine chemistry between the characters on display here and coupled with some superbly catchy - and often poignant - lyrics from the Sherman twins, we are presented with a really quite enjoyable fable. The Potts family live in a dilapidated farmhouse. Grandfather (Lionel Jeffries); the well meaning but hopeless inventor of a father "Caractacus" (Dick Van Dyke) and the two children "Jeremy" (Adrian Hall) and "Jemima" (Heather Ripley). Luckily, one day the youngsters are nearly run over by "Truly" (Sally Ann Howes) the daughter of the wealthy confectioner "Lord Scrumptious" (James Robertson Justice). She might just be able to help the father make a few quid from her father with his sweets that double up as pan pipes. Meantime, the family manage to rescue an old rust bucket from the local garage, and lo and behold, enter our eponymous vehicle. It can drive, it can become an aeroplane, an hovercraft - indeed it can do just about everything bar make the tea. It's a must-have prize for the megalomaniac child-hater "Baron Bomburst" (Gert Fröbe - wh
Read the whole review on TMDB - John Chardon TMDB · Sep 20148/10
Fantasmagorical! Based on the novel written by James Bond creator Ian Flemming, this delightful fantasy charts the journey into the mysteriously childless world of Vulgaria by Caractacus Potts, his two children, Truly Scrumptious and super car Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I think the main thing that makes this film work so well is that it has a little of everything to make a successful family movie. Catchy tunes at every turn, a fairy tale kingdom awash with colour, bonkers technology, and a little slice of wickedness involving class distinction. Split very much into two halves, Chitty at its core is really about forming a complete family. We are introduced to Caracatus (Dick Van Dyke) who is a single father, who is doing his best to raise his two children with moral fortitude. It's through the children's love of an old rusty car that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is born, and after pretty lady Truly Scrumptious (a gorgeous Sally Ann Howes) comes into their lives, all four of them enter the second half of the movie after having firmly capturing the audience's attention with a firming promise of a family in waiting. The second half of the picture then whisks us far away into fantasy territory
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Cast
- Dick Van DykeCaractacus Potts
- Sally Ann HowesTruly Scrumptious
- Lionel JeffriesGrandpa Potts
- Gert FröbeBaron Bomburst
- Anna QuayleBaroness Bomburst
- Benny HillToymaker
- James Robertson JusticeLord Scrumptious
- Robert HelpmannChild Catcher
- Barbara WindsorBlonde
- Davy KayeAdmiral
Crew
- Ken HughesDirector
- Roald DahlScreenplay
- Ken HughesScreenplay
- Ian FlemingNovel
- Christopher ChallisDirector of Photography
- Richard M. ShermanOriginal Music Composer
- Robert B. ShermanOriginal Music Composer
- John ShirleyEditor
- Albert R. BroccoliProducer
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