CHIKI CHIKI BANG BANG FULL MOVIE MOVIE
Van Dyke play puppets in Vulgaria, and another wittily choreographed (by Marc Breaux and Dee Dee Wood) vicious, patty cake minuet.The fantasy side of the movie is deliberately a little obvious technically-so that when Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flies or floats, in a kind of paper cut-out processing shot, it is just clear enough that what's happening is not real. There is a very jolly, welldone dance number, in which Miss Howes and Mr. The preoccupation with sweets and machinery seems ideal for children. X, as in X and pains," the movie, which accelerates, as a musical should, as it goes along can hardly miss. Sherman) like "Oh, what a lovely, lonely man," and "There's magic in the wake of a fiasco" and lines like "Zis is X speaking.
The music is not distinguished, but with lyrics (by Richard M. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a car that swims and flies and finally rescues everyone.The screenplay, by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes (who also directs) is remarkably good. Gert Frobe rather overplays a balloon-borne villain from the kingdom of Vulgaria-keeping one eye shut for most of the film in a physically disturbing, villainous way. Sally Ann Howes plays a Major Barbara-like candy tycoon's daughter, who ultimately marries him. Heather Ripley and Adrian Hall are his two pleasant, unaccountably English, children. After that it settles down and becomes a happy anarchical story within a story about cars, kids, adults, love and candy.Dick Van Dyke plays a gentle, nutty, apparently widowed father, who invents fine Rube Goldberg devices that serve eggs at breakfast. The film is based on a fantasy by Ian Fleming, and its violence level just after the credits is fantastically high (a car drives off the road and explodes, a child is nearly run over, the breaking of an adult bargain is treated as a desirable thing). IN spite of the dreadful title, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," which opened yesterday at the Loew's State 2 Theater, is a fast, dense, friendly children's musical, with something of the joys of singing together on a team bus on the way to a game.