I wrote earlier about Willy Wonka being one of the films I watched thin at my grandparents' house. Chitty was the other. I really wish the musicals would come back. So what if they were unrealistic and kitsch and blah blah blah? They were also beautiful and uplifting, unlike all the apocalyptic, chainsaw-slashing trash today. Call me nostalgic, but I miss the innocence and just outright FUN. People sneer at naivety today, but I cannot honestly remember a happier time than that. But I digress....
Chitty was a spectacular fantasy about a poor family lead by an insanely inventive patriarch, Caractacus Potts (crackpot- get it? haha). The inventions are really fun to watch, the songs are catchy and well sung (Toot Sweets is my favorite) and I always wanted a car just like Chitty. I thought Sally Anne Howes was lovely as Truly (thought i never got she was truly scrumptious until much later). Dick Van Dyke is a fav., though I was always wierded out since everyone but him had British accents. I guess he got raked too hard for his whole Burt-accent-disaster. The Rat Catcher was great! "And all free today..." what a fabulously creepy guy.
Great songs, great acting, beautiful scenery, fancy and fun- what more could you possibly want from a movie?
Chitty was a spectacular fantasy about a poor family lead by an insanely inventive patriarch, Caractacus Potts (crackpot- get it? haha). The inventions are really fun to watch, the songs are catchy and well sung (Toot Sweets is my favorite) and I always wanted a car just like Chitty. I thought Sally Anne Howes was lovely as Truly (thought i never got she was truly scrumptious until much later). Dick Van Dyke is a fav., though I was always wierded out since everyone but him had British accents. I guess he got raked too hard for his whole Burt-accent-disaster. The Rat Catcher was great! "And all free today..." what a fabulously creepy guy.
Great songs, great acting, beautiful scenery, fancy and fun- what more could you possibly want from a movie?