Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Blu-ray)
The most fantasmagorical musical entertainment in the history of everything!
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: July 7, 2020
- Originally Released: 1968
- Label: Mgm (Video & Dvd)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dick Van Dyke | |
Performer: | Lionel Jeffries, Robert Helpmann, Benny Hill, Gert Fröbe, James Robertson Justice, Sally Ann Howes, Barbara Windsor & Anna Quayle | |
Directed by | Ken Hughes | |
Edited by | John Shirley & John Shirley | |
Screenwriting by | Ken Hughes, Richard Maibaum & Roald Dahl | |
Composition by | Irwin Kostal | |
Produced by | Albert R. Broccoli | |
Director of Photography: | Christopher Challis |
Entertainment Reviews:
Ken Adam's sets are inventive, but the special effects are shoddy, the songs instantly forgettable, and the leisurely length an exquisite torture.
Time Out
Rating: 3/4 --
ultimately all in good fun, although it's hard to shake entirely the sense that something is slightly askew, which is probably the point
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Q Network Film Desk
Rating: 3/4 --
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was made in Britain for American consumption, but its magic works on kids and adults of any nationality.
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TV Guide
Ken Hughes directs in the resolutely bright over- exclamatory tones of someone working hard to make the party go.
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The Spectator
Rating: 3/5 --
I'm old enough to have seen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang during its original theatrical run, and I've just about recovered.
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Filmcritic.com
Rating: C+ --
A too cutesy musical.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
...This is a psychedelic fairytale, coated in chocolate and tied up in a bright purple bow...
Total Film
Product Description:
Van Dyke's charming as a daydreaming inventor who fixes up an old jalopy and, with the vivid imaginations of his two children and a lady friend, it is transformed into a flying, floating wonder car that carries them to a magical kingdom. Inspired by an Ian Fleming idea.