| | | "The Movie, Music and Moments That Defined the Decade."
Features: DVD, Sensormatic
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls--start your engines. You're about to take an incredible ride with one of the most wonderful family films of all time! Dick Van Dyke stars as eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts who creates an extraordinary car called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It not only drives--but also flies and floats--as it leads him, his two children and his beautiful lady friend, Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes), into a magical world of pirates, castles and adventure. There, the group encounters a host of unforgettable characters including Baron Bomburst of Vulgaria (Gert Frobe), his persnickety wife (Anna Quayle), a lovable village toymaker (Benny Hill) and an evil child catcher (Robert Helpmann). Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has never looked or sounded better. With its clever tunes (including the Oscar-nominated theme song), marvelous cast and enchanting storyline, this delightful film is "first-class family entertainment" (Boxoffice) and "toot sweet" to pass up!
"A High-flying, quality family production..." Clint Morris, MovieHole
"...one of those films that can entrance the youngest of children as well as having enough depth in the screenplay to appeal to adults." Eamonn McCusker, DVD Times
Editor's Note
Van Dyke's charming as a daydreaming inventor who fixes up an old jalopy and, with the vivid imaginations of his two children and a lady friend, it is transformed into a flying, floating wonder car that carries them to a magical kingdom. Inspired by an Ian Fleming idea.
Plot Summary
A widowed inventor saves a racing automobile from destruction, after which the car mysteriously develops magical powers.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French |
| Technical Info
|
Release Information
| | Studio: Mgm Entertainment |
| Release Date: 9/23/2008 |
| Running Time: 145 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1968 | | Catalog ID: 108985 | | UPC: 00027616089854 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Standard 1.33:1 [4:3] |
| Cast & Crew | Benny Hill | | Dick Van Dyke | | Gert Frobe | | Sally Ann Howes | | Albert R. Broccoli - Producer | | Christopher Challis - Cinematographer | | Harry Pottle - Art Director | | Ian Fleming - Based On Novel By | | John Shirley - Editor | | Ken Adam - Production Designer | | Ken Hughes - Director | | Richard M. Sherman - Original Music By | | Roald Dahl, et. al. - Screenplay | | Robert B. Sherman - Original Music By | | Stanley Sopel - Producer |
| Awards |
Nominee (1969) | | | Golden Globe, Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, Best Original Score | | | Golden Globe, Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, Best Original Song | | | Oscar, Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, Best Music, Original Song |
|
| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"...There's more here than gears-and-gadget love..." 11/28/2003 p.106Total Film
"...This is a psychedelic fairytale, coated in chocolate and tied up in a bright purple bow..." 12/01/2003 p.125 Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
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. 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...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. 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...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...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). - Roger Ebert
|
| |
|
|
|
http://www.buy.com/prod/chitty-chitty-bang-bang-decades-collection-60s/q/loc/322/205761157.html
