This is an OK movie for kids, but the story is clumsy (the car doesn't even appear until the movie is nearly half over) and the songs are absolutely horrible, especially when compared to Dick Van Dyke's masterpiece of a few years earlier, "Mary Poppins." I never could figure out why the studios of the '60s thought he could sing-clearly he's well suited to play parts like this but his voice is awful!! Sally Ann Howes-did I ever see her do anything else?-is serviceable if wooden in the Barbie doll character of a the local rich girl who falls in love with the pauper and becomes a mother figure for his two porcelain children. It isn't great but it's fun for the kids.
Review of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
