Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle named Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for his children. And now the car has the ability to fly, and takes them and their friend on an exciting adventure.
1 March 1906, London, England, UK
21 September 1935, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
6 May 1959, Dundee, Scotland, UK
August 1, 1956 in England, UK
2 October 1911, Manchester, England, UK
5 November 1927, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, UK
November 29, 1918 in London, England, UK
30 May 1920, Canada
20 July 1930, St. John's Wood, London, England, UK
12 August 1911, Hastings, Sussex, England, UK
1937 in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England, UK
21 January 1924, Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
29 September 1920, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya [now Malaysia]
1 January 1959, Staines, Middlesex, England, UK
16 February 1895, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
12 September 1914, Newport, Wales, UK
31 May 1918, Bognor Regis, Sussex, England, UK
19 September 1910, Islington, London, England, UK
25 February 1912, Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England, UK
1953, London, England, UK
7 February 1916, Purley, Surrey, England, UK
5 June 1905, London, England, UK
15 June 1907, Lewisham, London, England, UK
5 March 1946, London, England, UK
13 July 1918, Peterborough, England, UK
August 30, 2008
I'm old enough to have seen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang during its original theatrical run, and I've just about recovered.
May 09, 2005
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.
January 01, 2011
A fantastical car story custom made for kids.
May 05, 2008
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was made in Britain for American consumption, but its magic works on kids and adults of any nationality.
November 07, 2010
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. [Blu-ray]
June 24, 2006
Ken Adam's sets are inventive, but the special effects are shoddy, the songs instantly forgettable, and the leisurely length an exquisite torture.
October 23, 2004
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang contains about the best two-hour children's movie you could hope for, with a marvelous magical auto and lots of adventure and a nutty old grandpa and a mean Baron and some funny dances and a couple of [scary] moments.
November 07, 2010
ultimately all in good fun, although it's hard to shake entirely the sense that something is slightly askew, which is probably the point
May 23, 2004
Time has not enhanced its doubtful charms.
August 27, 2012
Starring Dick Van Dyke, this pleasant family fable with music was nominated for the Best Song Oscar
February 23, 2008
Has become modern classic, but falls so short of great.
January 21, 2014
A too cutesy musical.
