Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

Note des utilisateurs:

6.5/10   

Réalisateur:

Ken Hughes

Writers:

Roald Dahl (screenplay) &
Ken Hughes (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

18 décembre 1968 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Comedie | Musical | Fantasy

Accroche:

The most fantasmagorical musical entertainment in the history of everything!

Plot:

An eccentric professor invents wacky machinery, but can't seem to make ends meet. When he invents a revolutionary car...

Plot Keywords:

Car | Children | Baron | Inventor | Flying

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations

Avis des utilisateurs:

Fantasmagorical !

Ensemble

Dick Van Dyke	...	Caractacus Potts
Sally Ann Howes	...	Truly Scrumptious
Lionel Jeffries	...	Grandpa Potts
Gert Fröbe	...	Baron Bomburst (as Gert Frobe)
Anna Quayle	...	Baroness Bomburst
Benny Hill	...	Toymaker
James Robertson Justice	...	Lord Scrumptious
Robert Helpmann	...	Child Catcher
Heather Ripley	...	Jemima
Adrian Hall	...	Jeremy
Barbara Windsor	...	Blonde
Davy Kaye	...	Admiral
Alexander Doré	...	First Spy (as Alexander Dore)
Bernard Spear	...	Second Spy
Stanley Unwin	...	Chancellor

Autre(s) titre(s):

Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK) (complete title)

Durée:

144 min

Pays:

UK

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.20 : 1

Son:

70 mm 6-Track

Classification:

Iceland:L | West Germany:o.Al. | Australia:G (alternate rating) | Australia:PG | Finland:S | Norway:5 (video rating) | Norway:7 (original rating) | Singapore:PG | Sweden:11 | UK:U | USA:G (Approved No. 21682)

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Dramatic Features

Anecdotes:

Phil Collins claims he was one of the children storming the castle at the end of the film but was edited out because of a rather large and unsightly bandage on his head that was covering a cyst.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The switch for the cooking machine has wires connected to only one side of the switch.

Guillemet:

Jeremy: I'm so glad you came. It's much more fun with two grown ups.
Truly Scrumptious: [laughs]
Jemimah: Truly Scrumptious. You know, even if we didn't know your name, we could have guessed it.
Truly Scrumptious: Oh?
Jemimah: You had to be called something lovely.
Jeremy: Like Yum-Yum!
Jemimah: Or Angel Cake!
Jeremy: Or Toot Sweets!
Jemimah: Yeah, Toot Sweets!
Truly Scrumptious: [laughs] Or Toot Sweets! Oh no!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Boston Legal: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (#2.20)" (2006)

Soundtrack:

Hushabye Mountain

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 thru 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 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, Vulagaria is ruled by crackers toy obsessive Baron Bomburst {Gert Fröbe in wonderful bacon sandwich mode}, he has banned children, and naturally he has his sights set firmly on the magnificence that is Chitty Chitty. Bomburst sends out his child snatcher to nab Caracatus's kids in the hope of bargaining for the special car, the child snatcher played by Robert Helpman is as iconic as he is terrifying, wonky hat and pointy nose he lures children in with promises of sweets and treacle tarts, he is the invader of many a child's poor nightmares for sure.

But this is a family film after all, and sure enough this splendid ride speeds to a joyous finale that is cloaked in colour and feel good eccentricity, yep, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang still works on repeat viewings.

8/10