![]() ![]() It is for the pure imagination on display. ![]() Caractacus Potts (Dick van Dyke) and his two children, along with his love interest, Truly Scrumptious, (Sally Ann Howes) visit sweet factories, fly off the edge of cliffs in a car chasing after evil ne’er do wells, visit strange lands and, naturally, save the day, because how else would it end? After all, this is a children’s film.īut it is not for the plot that anyone would choose to watch this film. It’s totally nuts, but somehow it works.Īmongst all of this, there’s a semblance of a plot. And that’s just one five-minute set piece in a two and half hour film. ![]() The grandad isn’t just captured, he’s captured by evil Vulgarian spies that have hoisted his shed up by a blimp, all the while he’s still raving about visiting the Maharaja. It knows that it needs to entertain children, and so it goes all out. ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ is so good specifically because it knows where it’s strengths lie. (Go watch ‘The Goonies’, heaven knows you have enough time to). And that is why when I say ‘movies made for children’ you think ‘Hotel Transylvania 3’, and not the far superior ‘The Goonies’. Unfortunately, children’s cinema is, and always has been since it appeared as a genre, oversaturated with what can only be referred to as less than quality films. The target audience doesn’t change that an excellent piece of filmmaking is still an excellent piece of filmmaking. Because, and this may be obvious to some, they are inherently well-made. I, as you may have guessed by this point, have a soft spot for a well-made kids movie. ![]()
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