Intcatinfo
A Masterpiece!
StyleSk8r
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Tayloriona
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
Rosie Searle
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
sapphireflood8
I don't know why the IMDb rating is so low on this. In my opinion, this is one of THE best children's movies of all time. Even if you are an adult and have no children, you should definitely watch it. This movie is HILARIOUS, has some great musical numbers in it, a sweet story, and is just packed with fun. Great costume and set design as well. Not to mention, Dick van Dyke is in it! There is so much that happens in this movie, I don't know how they fit it all into less than 2 hours! If you like Mary Poppins (also an excellent film and a must-see) this movie is just as good. So DON'T be fooled by the rating. This movie rocks! I am 21 and still love Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!
nick-shorthouse
Agree with a lot of the comments above. It is,indeed, an ionic children's film from the sixties, building on Mary Poppins, and almost as good. The storyline tails off a little bit but the scenery, songs and enthusiasm of everyone involved make it wonderful entertainment for little ones for two hours - not to mention adults too! Some of the songs are very memorable - like the title song, me ole bamboo (great dance scene at the funfair) and, of course, (Sally Anne Howe as) Truly Scrumptious, filmed on a summer's day near St. Tropez. I saw this when it first came out and have seen it several times since. My children used to love it. Anything with cars fascinates boys and the romantic link appeals to the girls. I know it's been panned by critics but it's good, clean fun. A really enjoyable family film.
Marc Israel
The Dick Van Dyke showcase that reached for the stars and did the best it could to entertain, despite a screen play road map that mirrors James Bond. What? Oh, famed 007 Director Albert Broccolli took to kiddie theater... why? Ask his accountant! The story line is silly, we escape a silly candy factory into a storytelling fantasy that brings us o a land where there are no children. Kids love that right? Was I the only kid hiding behind the couch 45 years ago? Disney has taught us to expect more from a G rated movie and we got a grandfather singing in a toilet while being kidnapped by a flying boat.... Just like Bond, though, he gets a girl that he doesn't deserve. All's well....
berberian00-276-69085
I dedicate this piece of writing to Ian Fleming (1908-1964), the ingenious creator of 007 James Bond and also to all those defectors from the East that made the world beautiful today - cf., "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (1968). Since I don't want to miss an opportunity with each of 23 individual Movies from the Bond's series, I decided to place my reference for Ian Fleming in the paragraph with his less popular hero Caractacus Potts and his flying automobile. So putting it bluntly "Hollywood can no longer make movies like that because they no longer know how ... (cited from another reviewer). True or false, Movies for Children with fantastic element in it hadn't been so many in circulation for the mentioned period in the 1960s and 1970s (when I was a growing kid) - here I could point out "Wonderful World of Brothers Grimm" (1962), "Mary Poppins" (1964), "Doctor Dolittle" (1967), "Pippi Longstocking" (1969) with sequels, and maybe some other that I don't remember.Opinion research on Ian Fleming and his hero James Bond is something else. Fleming, who worked for Reuters as journalist, was recruited by British Foreign Service to do some coverage for espionage trials - particularly, when after 1947 it became highly popular for government officials from the Eastern Bloc to desert West with some classified information. In the country where I live, Bulgaria, "show trials" were made for Traicho Kostov and Nikola Petkov both sentenced to death. This was the beginning of Cold War, per se. Leakage happened from West-to-East also, when Rosenberg family divulged secret for A-bomb to the Russians. The World was never going to be same as before. Conventional war started and Combat battle on front-line was history. Can you believe this, some 3000 years after the Trojan War!Now get on grounds and pay tribute to Ian Fleming, the Colossus of espionage novel. He didn't have pretensions to have invented sullenly his hero James Bond. In fact, the 14 novels that were written for Agent 007 (i.e., "license to kill in the line of duty") took Fleming only 10 years and ruined respectively his health. He was heavy drinker and smoker; he died age 56. That was not bad age to die after making millions and also the phenomenon "compression of mortality" was not yet known.I want to complement at end few words on the prototype Spy that Fleming used for his novels. Firstly comes Sidney Reilly (1873-1925) - viz., a notorious adventurer (born as Solomon Rosenblum) in tsarist Russia, who worked for London at least 20 years before executed by the Bolsheviks. The second prototype Spy whom I didn't see mentioned is Oleg Penkovsky (1919-1963). Fleming shouldn't have missed his dossier if he was involved with Foreign Service coverage. Oleg Penkovsky, a colonel with Soviet Military Intelligence, defected to London in the 1950s. He and his contact person Greville Wynne (from MI5) were caught in 1963 and put to trial, where Penkovsky was sentenced to death and Greville Wynne to 8 years in prison (as foreign subject, he was released in 1965 for exchange to another double agent Sgt. Jack Dunlap, an American who spied for U.S.S.R.) Whatever, it is evident from "Penkovskiy Papers: The Russian Who Spied for the West, New York, 1966" that he leaked top secret for at least 5 years before dying. So, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy could be traced directly to this defective line. Thank you!
