Ken Adam's sets are inventive, but the special effects are shoddy, the songs instantly forgettable, and the leisurely length an exquisite torture.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
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United Kingdom · 1968
Rated G · 2h 24m
Director Ken Hughes
Starring Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe
Genre Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music
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An eccentric professor and single father, Mr. Potts, invents wacky machinery but can't seem to make ends meet. When he develops a revolutionary car to appease his children, a foreign government becomes interested in it and will use any means necessary to get their hands on it.
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Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
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.
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a wild film to say the least. Dick Van Dyke is entertaining as ever dancing, singing, driving, and flying his way through the film. With the many zany characters and twist and turns, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is the perfect movie to experience with the whole family.