Film · United Artists · 1968
Pass it on
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
55Watch it awake.
A flying car and a long song. The child-catcher is a real nightmare inside a family film.
The review
An inventor restores a car that can fly and float. With two children and a woman they love, he ends up in a country whose ruler has banned children. The songs go on. The invention is the delight.
The child-catcher is the part that frightens, and he should. A family can watch this. Do not leave a small child alone with that cart. Say, in a normal voice, that a land which hides its children is the wrong land, and that the car was only the way they got there.
Journal
Keep Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety is the thin one.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Mary Poppins
69 instead of 55
Mary Poppins is still a family film, and it scores 69 instead of 55. What you gain is industry: The work on screen is a household: children, a bank, a kite, a father who has to return.
The eight
- 6Industry
He is an inventor. The car is a thing he restored, not a wish.
- 7Household
Two children and a woman they love are the reason the trip matters.
- 3Piety
No creed. A ruler who bans children is the nearest thing to a moral.
- 6Courage
They go into a country that has decided children do not belong.
- 5Republic
A ruler's law is the villain, and the law is against children.
- 5Temperance
The songs are long. One scene is a genuine fright, not a sugar.
- 6Truth
The pretty kingdom is hiding what it did with its children.
- 6Stewardship
Getting the children back is the ending that matters, not the car.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Chitty Chitty Bang Bang · 55IMDb
