CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG

Genre: Dance, Musical
Director: Ken Hughes
Rated: G
Released: 1968
Country: US

Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke), a free-spirited inventor, is bringing up his two children Jeremy and Jemima (Adrian Hall and Heather Ripley) in a somewhat ramshackle fashion after the death of his wife, assisted by his father (Lionel Jeffries). When Jeremy and Jemima are found playing truant from school by Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes), a local noblewoman, she meets Caractacus for the first time, and both are intrigued by each other. Unable to interest anyone in buying his inventions, Caractacus scrapes together some money to buy a dilapidated racing car which he restores and transforms into Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a flying car with many other special features. A picnic day with Truly and the children becomes a grand adventure as Caractacus spins them a story about an evil Baron (Gert Frobe) from a strange foreign land who wants to steal Chitty, taking all of them into a fantasy world, which Caractacus much prefers to real life. Crackpot inventor Caractacus Potts has a fertile imagination and a winning way with kids. He takes his two children, Jeremy and Jennifer, to the beach along with a friend of theirs, Truly Scrumptious, in an old battered car called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. There, he begins relating a fantastic story involving the children and the car. First, the children's Grandpa is kidnapped by the evil Baron Bomburst. Then, the kids give chase in Chitty. The amazing car turns out to be able to fly like a plane and sail like a hydrofoil. One exciting adventure follows another until, at last, Grandpa Potts is back home safe and sound. Potts then explains to the kids that this has all been just a fairy tale, that dreams don't necessarily come true just because you want them to. With that, they return to the car and Chitty rises slowly into the sky, disappearing over the hills.