I love this movie, too. I also love the movie that people call the antithesis to this movie, Cabaret, with Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey. I think Sound Of Music would be one of Aang from Avatar's favorite movies.
I was just wondering if you were going to upload a video again. I am so excited to watch this! I managed to pick up the 5 disc Blu-ray to this film at the end of last year (after I found out that I had screwed myself by purchasing the pathetic 2-disc release some months prior; the 5-disc release was lower on the list since it wasn't really being sold anymore). If it's not too late, try to find the beautiful complete soundtrack that was released around the end of last year. I will be viewing your video soon.
I noticed somthing about the ending when Truly and Mr Potts thats different. Before the end credits happened when Mr Potts and Truly fly off, I noticed that there were wings on it this time. In the vhs version I had growing up, there were no wings in that same ending scene
The car's name was not Chitty. At least not until AFTER the children's father finds a way to buy it, fixes it up, and when they are trying to come up with a name for the car, the car itself tells them by the sounds it makes. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I don't know why you are saying this is truly disturbing. I saw this when it came out, and I was 5 years old. I was 3 when the Sound of Music came out. I was sufficiently scared for both movies (the Nazis were scary in the Sound of Music), but not terribly scared and I wasn't disturbed by it nor did I have nightmares. I could see how absurd everyone was and I knew it was a comedy - even at 5 years old. Probably because I was the youngest of four and my siblings weren't wetting their pants or screaming. I also loved W2001: a Space Odyssey when I was 5 years old. Although it seemed a little long and boring,, one would assume it was over my head - it would have been, but somehow I understood symbolism, so when it was explained to me, I understood it. My favorite part was watching the woman walking in space and entering a room upside down, but once in the room, she was right-side up. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Bedknobs and Broomsticks. I was not aware how cold, rude, and arrogant Mary Poppins was until I was older, thought. The movie that made me cry was Bambi, when Bambi's Mother is killed. But, my favorite character in Bambi wasn't Bambi, it was Thumper. Pinocchio is pretty scary and scandalous for a kid's movie.
People have noted that this film is a bit much for kids since it was brand-new. I've read a review from when the film premiered in which the reviewer mentioned that within the first 5-10 minutes of the movie we witness a near-accident (twice) where a little girl (and dog) and then two young children are almost run down by a car. Dark stuff indeed. I first saw this as a young kid on television, probably the TV premiere, in the early 1970's. It was the big scary guy with the bad haircut that really frightened me. Now I must watch it about once a year. It's the score by the Sherman Brothers that I love best about it.
28:16 "And then he'll snatch me up with his triple axel, and then he'll triple axel his way back to his carriage" 😭💀😅 As a ballet dancer and figure skating fan who was also emotionally scarred by this movie as a kid, this took me out completely LMAO
That's a nice trailer for this channel. If anybody wants to know the films and faces: 00:00:00 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) - Peter O'Toole 00:00:01 PSYCHO (1960) - Anthony Perkins 00:00:04 THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (1966) - Clint Eastwood 00:00:05 MILDRED PIERCE (1945) - Ann Blyth, Joan Crawford 00:00:08 SAHARA (1983) - Brooke Shields 00:00:09 THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) - Christopher Plummer 00:00:11 STAND BY ME (1986) - Jerry O'Connell, Wil Wheaton 00:00:13 GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953) - Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell 00:00:15 TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944) - Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart 00:00:18 SABRINA (1954) - Audrey Hepburn 00:00:21 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 00:00:23 THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) - Judy Garland 00:00:25 THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984) - Tami Stronach 00:00:27 REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955) Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo 00:00:29 THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) - Robin Wright 00:00:31 THE GRADUATE (1967) - Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross 00:00:33 SUSPIRIA (1977) - Jessica Harper 00:00:35 SCARFACE (1983) 00:00:37 DOCTOR STRANGELOVE (1964) - Peter Sellers 00:00:39 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) - Mary Badham, Gregory Peck, Robert Duvall 00:00:43 GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) - Vivien Leigh 00:00:45 SPARTACUS (1960) - Kirk Douglas 00:00:47 The Princess Bride - Christopher Guest, Mandy Patinkin 00:00:50 SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (1961) - Natalie Wood 00:00:52 ROMEO AND JULIET (1968) - Olivia Hussey 00:00:54 THE GODFATHER (1972) - Al Pacino 00:00:57 BEN-HUR (1959) - Charlton Heston 00:00:59 A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951) - Marlon Brando 00:01:00 CLEOPATRA (1963) - Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor 00:01:02 FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953) - Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr 00:01:05 NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE (1978) - Tim Matheson, John Vernon 00:01:07 SPACEBALLS (1987) - Rick Moranis, George Wyner 00:01:08 CLUE (1985) - Madeline Kahn, Michael McKean, Tim Curry 00:01:11 PLATOON (1986) - Willem Dafoe 00:01:13 Dr Strangelove - Slim Pickens 00:01:15 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 00:01:16 NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) - Cary Grant 00:01:18 Lawrence of Arabia The thumbnail has Charlton Heston in a chariot in Ben-Hur, Audrey Hepburn in tears in a wedding dress in FUNNY FACE (1957) and Cary Grant in a spot of bother in a cornfield in North by Northwest. All good for a good night in (IMO)
I loved this movie as a child. I doubt that as an adult I would revisit watching it again, but to me at the time it was just magical. With a child's eyes I don't think I found the story disturbing at all as you knew everything would be alright in the end as with any fairytale.
They have remade Wizard of Oz since the 1939 movie: Return to Oz from 1985 and Oz, the Great and Powerful from 2013, seen both.8:50 Well, Judy was younger and she made plenty of money for her Own show in 1962 and two other movies: Meet Me in St. Louis from 1944 and I Could Go On Singing from 1963. And one mistake with the surrender Dorothy! is that it was Impossible how short to put it out in between scenes.
Baron BomBAST. Not burst. Bombast is "high-sounding language with little meaning used to impress people," according to the Oxford Dictionary. Also the fantasy country is Vulgaria, a portmanteau, presumably, of /vulgar/ and /Bulgaria/. Last, DVD's character name is Caractacus Potts (ka-RACK-tick-us), a hint at him being a crack-pot. That said, I've never been a real fan of this movie, even as a kid. The goal -- to mimic the fantasy (and box-office power) of "Mary Poppins" -- is never even remotely reached. The running time is WAY too long; the kids are shrill; the focus of the movie is an inanimate object, which is not all that engaging; the child-catcher looks like he landed in Vulgaria from a much more adult, much more terrifying movie; the baron's sidekick villains are godawful Laurel/Hardy clones; the SPFX are clunky; and the screenplay erases the prior x number of minutes by backtracking that it was all a story. Maybe a remake is in order, tightening all this up for a new audience? Or .. Maybe not.
OH MY!! You could totally cosplay a perfect Truly scrumptious , does any one else see that? This movie is my childhood it was amazing and it’s stuck with me ever since chitty will always be my fave movie car , probably one of the most underated famous movie cars in film history
Excellent review of a brilliant movie. Well done. I had a Corgi model of the car, and the wings would come out if you pressed the brake lever. Very cool toy. Also, if you don't mind me saying so, Audrey, you have beautiful knees.
i'm noticing the Thin Man. Look at how long his neck is, the distance between his head from his shoulders @23:33 It's quite inhuman, right?? Am i trippin'?
Children actually do have a distinct smell, HOWEVER. .. "i smell children" is probably the creepiest thing that any person could say. The first time i heard it was probably in The Witches and then later in Hocus Pocus, but it was always kinda funny back then. KINDA. The first time the quote actually frightened me was when i saw a Marilyn Manson album in a record store in the late 90s titled "Smells Like Children". Just evil and menacing for no reason. Having said all that, i have never been disturbed by Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. If anything, i was mostly bored. 😆
Robert Helper, "The Childcatcher", almost suffered a horrible accident during filming. His wagon overturned, and he could have fallen to terrible injuries, but his training as a ballet dancer allowed him to make a nice leap and land on his feet. He was a well trained and expert ballet dancer.
10:28 That's not a cow. Such a fun movie. I was old enough to see this in theaters when it came out. Such memories. And yes, the Child Catcher was scary for kids.
I find most movies today 100% more disturbing than anything seen in CCBB. It's fun musical romp, Well, yeah, the child catcher is "scary" he is a villain, he is suppose to be. Mission accomplished.
This movie was shown annually on TV when I was growing up in the early/mid 70s. The Chuchi Face scene was always one of my favorites because I thought it was hilarious. That's how kids saw it.
Just found your channel and I like your style so far! This was one of my favorite movies as a kid. Oddly enough, watching the movie as a kid, the Child Catcher didn't scare me as much as the burly customer that Potts attempted to give a haircut with his "haircutting machine" invention, only to have the invention fail miserably (hence Potts having to hide from him, leading to the "Me Ol' Bamboo" dance number). I don't know if it was the freaky mess the "invention" made of the guy's hair, or what, but I found him scary. When I re-watched the movie as an adult, decades after last watching it as a kid, it hit very differently. The disgruntled haircut customer at the fair was funny instead of scary, the Child Catcher was "Stranger Danger: the Movie", and in the intervening years I had actually been to Neuschwanstein Castle and the village of Rothenburg ab der Tauber, which were used in the movie as the locations for the Baron's Castle and its adjoining village.
