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Overview

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6.5/10   7,681 votes
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Director:
Ken Hughes
Writers:
Roald Dahl (screenplay) &
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Release Date:
18 December 1968 (USA) more
Tagline:
The most fantasmagorical musical entertainment in the history of everything! more
Plot:
An eccentric professor invents wacky machinery, but can't seem to make ends meet. When he invents a revolutionary car... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
Doggedly whimsical... more

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK) (complete title)
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Runtime:
144 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track
Certification:
Iceland:L | West Germany:o.Al. | Australia:G (alternate rating) | Australia:PG | Finland:S | Norway:5 (video rating) | Norway:7 (original rating) | Singapore:PG | Sweden:11 | UK:U | USA:G (Approved No. 21682)

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Trivia:
Phil Collins claims he was one of the children storming the castle at the end of the film but was edited out because of a rather large and unsightly bandage on his head that was covering a cyst. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: The switch for the cooking machine has wires connected to only one side of the switch. more
Quotes:
Jeremy: I'm so glad you came. It's much more fun with two grown ups.
Truly Scrumptious: [laughs]
Jemimah: Truly Scrumptious. You know, even if we didn't know your name, we could have guessed it.
Truly Scrumptious: Oh?
Jemimah: You had to be called something lovely.
Jeremy: Like Yum-Yum!
Jemimah: Or Angel Cake!
Jeremy: Or Toot Sweets!
Jemimah: Yeah, Toot Sweets!
Truly Scrumptious: [laughs] Or Toot Sweets! Oh no!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Boston Legal: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (#2.20)" (2006) more
Soundtrack:
Hushabye Mountain more

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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
Doggedly whimsical..., 30 January 2009
4/10
Author: moonspinner55 from redlands, ca

Elephantine, ersatz-Disney family film with musical interludes has kooky inventor Dick Van Dyke, his two moppet kids and new lady-love outwitting the rulers of an evil fantasy world with help from their airborne automobile. Director Ken Hughes, who also co-adapted Ian Fleming's novel with none other than Roald Dahl, can't manage to work up any life within this not-too-fantastic scenario; it's an adventure story involving a flying car which never lifts off. The sugary songs aside, this loosely-hinged and slowly-paced picture doesn't even look good. The special effects are bland and chintzy (even for 1968). As to the performances, Van Dyke has always been an acquired taste, but Sally Ann Howes is certainly no Julie Andrews (though Ken Hughes fashions her role accordingly). Songwriters Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman work with the very best of intentions here (and the title song is catchy, as is "Truly Scrumptious"), but the Shermans are still doing what they did back in the early-'60s: winking and nudging at us with nursery ditties, almost all of which suffer from a fatal case of the cutes. *1/2 from ****

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Van Dyke's accent and Truly's song hillstah86
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Question -- Doll on a Music Box/Truly Scrumptious (reprise) jjordan391
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