BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

jseph1234-262-617488 I have watched this film so many times over the years but I can watch it again and again because it is such a wonderful and relaxing movie.Dick Van Dyke is at his most wonderful and Sally Ann Howes is just as lovely as her name in the film, Truly Scrumptious! The little girl, Heather Ripley is SOO wonderful and lovely and you can just see the joy and love in her eyes as she does her scenes.I don't see how this film is not higher rated but I know that the people that grew up watching this film are just as enchanted and in love with it just as much as I am.

grantss Charming, but incredibly unfocused. Starts very sweetly and promisingly. However, from a point it takes one bizarre random turn after another. Still very sweet and innocent, but devoid of a plot (surprising, considering the screenplay was written by Roald Dahl, based on an Ian Fleming book). The random scenes needn't have been so irritating if director Ken Hughes had just kept them to a minimum, as the remainder of the movie is great. However, the fairy tale sequence goes on for an eternity.Good performances by Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes in the lead roles. The kids, Heather Ripley and Adrian Hall, are great too. Good support from James Robertson Justice. Interesting to see Benny Hill in the fairy tale sequence - one of the few highlights of that part.Music is so-so. Some songs were downright cringeworthy.Overall, the charm and innocence more than make up for the random plot, and it would be very difficult to dislike the movie. Kids will love it.

SnoopyStyle In the 1908 Grand Prix de France, one of the cars crash and ends up in a garage in rural England which is beloved by children Jeremy and Jemima Potts. Mr. Coggins is looking to sell it for scrap. They live with Grandpa Potts, their widowed wacky inventor father Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke) and their dog Edison. They meet wealthy Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes) driving her own car. She tries to tell Caractacus about his kids' truancy but he's unconcerned. They don't get along. One of his invention produces sweets with holes in them. He discovers that they toot and tries to sell them to Truly's confectionery manufacturer father Lord Scrumptious. He gets thrown out when the whistle brings dogs to overrun the factory. He eventually earns some money at the carnival and buys the car. The kids name it Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for the noise from the engine and the Bangs coming from the exhaust. They go to the beach for a picnic and Truly joins them. Caractacus tells them a story about the ruler of Vulgaria Baron Bomburst who wants to steal Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.This is from a children book written by Ian Fleming. Roald Dahl who wrote 'Charlie & the Chocolate Factory' also helps to write the screenplay. This is an unabashed children's movie. There are some disturbing aspects of the movie like the Child Catcher which I like. It doesn't all work. I don't particularly like the broad comedy coming from the two spies. Sally Ann Howes may be a great stage actress but she doesn't have the great presence as someone like Julie Andrews. Her chemistry with Dick Van Dyke is limited. There are a couple of fun songs. This doesn't quite measure up to 'Mary Poppins' but it tries to be in the same class. Also some of the magic seems to disappear when the movie goes to the castle. It's like the castle is too real and overwhelms any effort to give it a sense of fantasy. But you gotta love the car.

Leofwine_draca There's little to dislike about CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, a fun and colourful musical written by Ian Fleming, no less; it's packed with memorable music, has colourful cinematography, an imaginative script and a decent cast. Of the principal actors, it's fair to say that Dick Van Dyke puts memories of MARY POPPINS and dodgy accents behind him in his enthusiastic turn as madcap inventor Caractacus Potts.It's rare to find a film which boasts decent performances from the child actors, but they're good here, as are the likes of Benny Hill and Lionel Jeffries in support. The songs are a lot of fun, particularly the titular one, of course.My only complaint, which isn't too much of one, really, is that it grows more and more fantastic as it goes on, and the last third is more like a silly fantasy sequence; there's Roald Dahl to blame for that, I think. At least the writers saw this and put in an explanation of it being all a dream sequence so that it kind of makes sense.