Curapedi
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
TerryTolkin
An eccentric Victorian single-father turns a broken-down Grand Prix enters a local competition to build race car. Since he's actually an Inventor he includes a few 'options 'in the design. One day he takes his children and their friend for an outing but it turn into a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land! !Looks Great on Acid!
jseph1234-262-617488
I have watched this film so many times over the years but I can watch it again and again because it is such a wonderful and relaxing movie.Dick Van Dyke is at his most wonderful and Sally Ann Howes is just as lovely as her name in the film, Truly Scrumptious! The little girl, Heather Ripley is SOO wonderful and lovely and you can just see the joy and love in her eyes as she does her scenes.I don't see how this film is not higher rated but I know that the people that grew up watching this film are just as enchanted and in love with it just as much as I am.
Marc Israel
The Dick Van Dyke showcase that reached for the stars and did the best it could to entertain, despite a screen play road map that mirrors James Bond. What? Oh, famed 007 Director Albert Broccolli took to kiddie theater... why? Ask his accountant! The story line is silly, we escape a silly candy factory into a storytelling fantasy that brings us o a land where there are no children. Kids love that right? Was I the only kid hiding behind the couch 45 years ago? Disney has taught us to expect more from a G rated movie and we got a grandfather singing in a toilet while being kidnapped by a flying boat.... Just like Bond, though, he gets a girl that he doesn't deserve. All's well....
berberian00-276-69085
I dedicate this piece of writing to Ian Fleming (1908-1964), the ingenious creator of 007 James Bond and also to all those defectors from the East that made the world beautiful today - cf., "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (1968). Since I don't want to miss an opportunity with each of 23 individual Movies from the Bond's series, I decided to place my reference for Ian Fleming in the paragraph with his less popular hero Caractacus Potts and his flying automobile. So putting it bluntly "Hollywood can no longer make movies like that because they no longer know how ... (cited from another reviewer). True or false, Movies for Children with fantastic element in it hadn't been so many in circulation for the mentioned period in the 1960s and 1970s (when I was a growing kid) - here I could point out "Wonderful World of Brothers Grimm" (1962), "Mary Poppins" (1964), "Doctor Dolittle" (1967), "Pippi Longstocking" (1969) with sequels, and maybe some other that I don't remember.Opinion research on Ian Fleming and his hero James Bond is something else. Fleming, who worked for Reuters as journalist, was recruited by British Foreign Service to do some coverage for espionage trials - particularly, when after 1947 it became highly popular for government officials from the Eastern Bloc to desert West with some classified information. In the country where I live, Bulgaria, "show trials" were made for Traicho Kostov and Nikola Petkov both sentenced to death. This was the beginning of Cold War, per se. Leakage happened from West-to-East also, when Rosenberg family divulged secret for A-bomb to the Russians. The World was never going to be same as before. Conventional war started and Combat battle on front-line was history. Can you believe this, some 3000 years after the Trojan War!Now get on grounds and pay tribute to Ian Fleming, the Colossus of espionage novel. He didn't have pretensions to have invented sullenly his hero James Bond. In fact, the 14 novels that were written for Agent 007 (i.e., "license to kill in the line of duty") took Fleming only 10 years and ruined respectively his health. He was heavy drinker and smoker; he died age 56. That was not bad age to die after making millions and also the phenomenon "compression of mortality" was not yet known.I want to complement at end few words on the prototype Spy that Fleming used for his novels. Firstly comes Sidney Reilly (1873-1925) - viz., a notorious adventurer (born as Solomon Rosenblum) in tsarist Russia, who worked for London at least 20 years before executed by the Bolsheviks. The second prototype Spy whom I didn't see mentioned is Oleg Penkovsky (1919-1963). Fleming shouldn't have missed his dossier if he was involved with Foreign Service coverage. Oleg Penkovsky, a colonel with Soviet Military Intelligence, defected to London in the 1950s. He and his contact person Greville Wynne (from MI5) were caught in 1963 and put to trial, where Penkovsky was sentenced to death and Greville Wynne to 8 years in prison (as foreign subject, he was released in 1965 for exchange to another double agent Sgt. Jack Dunlap, an American who spied for U.S.S.R.) Whatever, it is evident from "Penkovskiy Papers: The Russian Who Spied for the West, New York, 1966" that he leaked top secret for at least 5 years before dying. So, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy could be traced directly to this defective line. Thank you!
