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DVD The Love Bug (Special Edition)
This savvy Disney hit from 1969 made a star of a Volkswagen precisely when the car was becoming more popular than ever. Dean Jones and Michele Lee head the cast in a story about a VW bug with a mind of its own. Disney point man Robert Stevenson, director of The Absent-Minded Professor, Mary Poppins, and lots of other Disney live-action hits, makes the slapstick work perfectly and keeps the laughs coming. Buddy Hackett is very funny in a supporting role. --Tom Keogh
If you would say in 1969, that a VW bug would become one of Disney beloved characters. you might have been laughed it. However that VW bug (Herbie) has become loved as one of Disney's beloved (dare I say) Human characters.Other than Davy Crockett or Zorro, can you really name another?
The Classic Love Bug is pure Disney Magic. I feel it still had WALT DISNEY's imprint on it. It was done long after his death, but you feel Walt's magic touch. The DVD version is with its extra make this timeless classic worth seeing again and again, unlike its current remake Herbie Fully Loaded.
One of the greatest and smartest things on this DVD is the audio commentary track from actors Dean Jones, Michelle Lee and the late Buddy Hackett. The track gave you insight into the actors mind set and the movie itself. Sometimes it viers into more entertainment stories, like when Hackett reveals he was offered to become one of the three stooges after the original Curly died or Michelle Lee pointing out a film flub involving earings and the art of DISNEY kissing.
The other features are pure Disney magic for true film buffs, so I suggest don't show them when smaller kids are around, it will bore them to tears. Well maybe share the Love Bug sunday strips which ran in 1969.
Gawd I wish they would do more films like this one. A classic with extras everyone will like
Herbie
As a new generation of "Herbie" fans want to know how "Herbie" came to be, I recommend they watch this movie. I watched all the "Herbie" movies growing up and saw the new movie, too. You have to watch the original to know the answers to all the questions you might have. I highly recommend this movie for the whole family!
The Love Bug
The first and freshest of Disney's "Herbie" series, "Bug" is sheer delight, with lots of action and comedy that will rev the engines of viewers, six to sixty. The cast is appealing, with Dean Jones's talents benefiting from an unusually sharp story and script. Michelle Lee is suitably cute as the love interest, and Hackett's a riot as Tennessee (wait for that Irish coffee scene). In all, "Bug" is that increasingly rare phenomenon: rousing, funny, wholesome family entertainment.
The first sequel to The Love Bug is similar enough to the first film's charm and raucous comedy that it works on its own. Neither Dean Jones nor Michelle Lee are back, but a nice cast of familiar pros keeps things moving along slickly. The story finds Herbie helping Helen Hayes--yes, the First Lady of the American Theater--keep out of the clutches of Keenan Wynn's villain. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Helen Hayes - Ken Berry - Stefanie Powers Director(s): Robert Stevenson DVD Release Date: Released the 04 May 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Dean Jones, star of The Love Bug, came back to the fold for this third lap around the block, which finds him racing in Monte Carlo while thieves plant a stolen diamond in Herbie's gas tank. The plot is forced and conventional, but the cast is the thing: the excitable Don Knotts (The Apple Dumpling Gang) and the tormentable Roy Kinnear (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory) are good men to have in a potboiler such as this. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Dean Jones - Don Knotts Director(s): Vincent McEveety DVD Release Date: Released the 04 May 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Bill Bixby plays a 19th-century gambler who inherits responsibility for three orphans, but the kids in turn have something of value: a huge gold nugget. This Disney film from 1975 is an enjoyable potboiler with its sentimentality under control and the accent on laughs, most of which are provided, not unexpectedly, by Tim Conway and Don Knotts as thieves who want to get their hands on the treasure. An easy, safe film for children. You can't go wrong with this. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Director(s): Norman Tokar - Jack Kinney DVD Release Date: Released the 02 September 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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When a slightly cross-eyed Siamese cat named D.C. (Darn Cat) turns up with a wristwatch around his neck instead of a collar, it could be just the clue the FBI needs to crack a series of bank robberies in this lightweight comedy from Disney. The watch belongs to a bank teller who has been taken hostage. Dean Jones stars as the good-hearted FBI agent assigned to the case. Unfortunately, he is highly allergic to, you guessed it, cats. Hayley Mills is D.C.'s doting owner who hatches a hair-brained scheme to follow D.C.'s every move until he returns to the crooks' hideout where he got the wristwatch. After a lot of sneezing, slapstick, and comedic intrigue, the bank robbers are foiled, the hostage is safe, and everyone is happy. An impressive supporting cast of Frank Gorshin,... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Hayley Mills - Dean Jones Director(s): Robert Stevenson DVD Release Date: Released the 03 May 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This fourth Love Bug movie is a wooden story about Herbie's funny adventures heading toward a race in Brazil. Charles Martin Smith and Steven W. Burns try hard to bring some life into this project, but it just doesn't happen. There is one good laugh in the whole thing, in a scene where Herbie becomes a matador. Otherwise, even the picturesque, south-of-the-border stuff doesn't help. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Charles Martin Smith - Stephen W. Burns Director(s): Vincent McEveety DVD Release Date: Released the 04 May 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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