Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a turn-of-the-century race car turned junkheap chassis. Sherman (not long after their career high of Mary Poppins), and you're off to, well, the races. Throw into the mix songwriters Richard M. With a script credited to Roald Dahl (author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and director Ken Hughes, the film guarantees weirdness. Broccoli, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang derives from a children's novel by Bond creator Ian Fleming. Produced by James Bond co-producer Albert R. And ask yourself, would you rather show your kids Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or Marmaduke? I don't want to live in a world where the answer is the latter. There's both a lost innocence and a wrongness about Chitty Chitty Bang Bang that appeal to the kid in me and the mondo-bizarro connoisseur into which I've grown. Awkward segue: I know I'm not supposed to love Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, but I can only plead that the heart wants what it wants, and apparently my heart wants to see ineluctably bizarre children's movies that take a hatchet to formula while peppering the screen with all variety of weirdness. The 1968 family musical adventure film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang wins the award for Kid's Movie Title That Most Sounds Like a Porn Movie Title.
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