Review of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) by I H — 03 Nov 2018

I've seen this movie dozens of times since my childhood. It is always been a favorite. It still holds true to this day. I'm sitting here watching it right now and felt compelled to add a review.

Although it is a children's movie, it still brings me back as an adult. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang rates up there with movies' best supercars... The Batmobile, the Delorean from Back to the Future and KITT from Knight Rider.

Dick Van Dyke is always fun to watch with his clumsy exuberance. And Sally Ann Howes is both likeable and beautiful and brings the character of Truly Scrumptious to life. I love the cameo by Desmond llewelyn, better known as Q from James Bond at the beginning of the movie.

This movie written by Ian Fleming, the author of James Bond, produced by Albert Cubby Broccoli, the producer of James Bond movies, and having the gadgets and special car like the James Bond movies... It makes Dick Van Dyke's character of Caractacus Potts seem like a clumsy singing James Bond.

And who can forget Benny Hill as the toy maker and of course the evil child catcher who gave me the creeps as a kid and it's still creepy to this day. All in all this movie has a little bit of everything.

Highly recommended!