Rotten
Ken Adam's sets are inventive, but the special effects are shoddy, the songs instantly forgettable, and the leisurely length an exquisite torture.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
The most fantasmagorical musical entertainment in the history of everything!
1968 · 2h 24m · G
Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Directed by
Ken Hughes
Overview
A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.
Director and cast
- Ken Hughes Director
- Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts
- Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious
- Lionel Jeffries as Grandpa Potts
- Gert Fröbe as Baron Bomburst
- Anna Quayle as Baroness Bomburst
- Benny Hill as Toymaker
- James Robertson Justice as Lord Scrumptious
- Robert Helpmann as Child Catcher
- Barbara Windsor as Blonde
- Davy Kaye as Admiral
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
70%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Renata Adler, New York Times
Fresh
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.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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