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Summary: Full screen...
Review: A gorgeous film, perfectly restored picture and good restored 5.1 sound. BUT how dare they to cut it down to full screen. The opening is letterboxed, you can read that the film is in s u p e r panavision. After the opening the curtain closes halfway.That "1 star" is for the fullscreen version - should be "no stars". The rest is "five stars"
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Summary: Truly Scrumptious! A Family Movie Gem!
Review: I first saw this film as a child at a cinema. DVD technology adds many fantastic features, capturing the magic of a movie that should be seen on the big screen. Oh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, I Love You! Enjoy this timeless classic!
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Summary: You people need a life
Review: I am quite frankly appalled at the countless reviews I have found bashing this timeless classic. For heavens sakes people, it's a CHILD'S movie! Do you think children care if the musical numbers aren't the "creme ala creme", NO! Do you think they care if the acting talent in this cute comedy is ground chuck compaired to the "filet mignon" of Jennifer Love Hewitt's "superb" acting ability? Really people go easy on it.My children love it, so that's good enough for me.
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Summary: Beware: Pan & Scan
Review: MGM should have known better. I hope they'll correct this mistake.
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Summary: Excellent film -- terrible DVD!
Review: One of my favorite childhood films is ruined in this full screen DVD edition. Please release this fillm in its widescreen version as well! Why not offer both versions so that consumers have a choice?
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Summary: CHITTY CHITTY BANK BANK
Review: OTHER THAN THE CLASSIC DISNEY CARTOONS, CCBB WAS ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE MOVIES FOR ME AS A CHID. A FLYING CAR, NIFFTY GADETS, LOVABLE GOOFY TUNES, AND OF COURSE THE "CHILD CATCHER". DRESSED ALL IN BLACK, WITH A VERY PALE SKIN FACE, HE SEARCHES THE KINGDOM TO CAPTURE ANY AND ALL CHILDREN, BY ANY MEANS. HE WAS TRULY TERRIFING. IT RIVALS THE WITCH OF THE WEST FROM "THE WIZARD OF OZ". I STILL ENJOY WATCHING THIS MOVIE, EXCEPT FOR ONE MAJOR FLAW IN THE DVD EDITION. THE MOVIE WAS FILMED IN SUPER PANAVISION 70MM, WHAT CONSUMERS GOT IS A PAN N SCAN TV VERSION. THIS IS TRULY AN ABOMINATION OF WHAT THE DIRECTOR ENTEDED US TO SEE. ALL MOVIES SHOULD BE SHOWN IN THERE ORIGINAL FORMAT! . NOW, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO REALLY DON'T MIND SEEING THIS PAN VERSION, IT IS A MUST GET FOR CHIDREN AND ADULTS OF ANY AGE.
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Summary: Haul it off to the junkyard
Review: A dull, sophmoric musical about a turn of the century inventor-mechanic who turns a racing car into a flying and floating machine. While on the beach, he fantasizes about himself, his ladyfriend (the daughter of a candy-making tycoon), and two children named Jeremy and Jemima (who in the world would name their daughter Jemima?) flying off to a fantasy land where an evil king and queen keep children as prisoners. The acting and the story (loosely based on the one by the late British writer Ian Fleming) are lousy. The musical numbers are anything but memorable; especially the number "Chu-chi face" performed by the king and queen. This rank imitation of "Mary Poppins" is anything but entertaining and should definitely not be shown to young children.
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Summary: Good family entertainment - children love it
Review: This is a true family classic. This movie is the ONLY single movie my 2 year old will watch. He won't sit in front of anything else except this movie. My 3 year old it likes it almost as much as Mary Poppins (her favorite). The clips are short and the scenes change often, the music is catchy and rhythmic, and the theme is wholesome and without profanity. It's a family classic that should be introduced well before low quality and violent television that exists today. The DVD quality was fine. A step above VHS, but most people that would buy this movie, aren't the one's worrying about the digital quality that one reader reviewed. Give it a try!
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Summary: Rhymes with Chitty
Review: This is still one of my all-time favourite musicals. As a toddler, the kidnapper terrified me so much, I crouched down behind the seat of our convertible (Drive-In showing) and never came back up for the duration of the film, eventually falling asleep. It was Years later that I had the opportunity to view it again. Bear in mind that in those days you had One shot of viewing and retaining the memory of it. How disappointing that the DVD version of this classic is Not in widescreen and features the ridiculous intermission segment which backtracks prior to plummeting off the cliff. The laserdisc version, presented in Widescreen, is far superior, though it also includes the forementioned intermission segment. A 5-star film in a 2-star format.
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Summary: Lovely. Full of chilish innocence... Long forgotten by our f
Review: A great movie. So who cares that it is pure fantasy? So refreshing from the run of the mill "Super action" films that you cannot take your children to see. This is one you can take them to and they will remember. My now 32 year old had a replica of the car and as a new Father, he recently purchased this to "view" with his 10 month old daughter. Not surprisingly, she wasn't very impressed. I believe he bought it for himself. I know his daughter will love it when she is old enough to understand it.
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