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Summary: Good, Clean Fun
Review: A classic with a few catchy tunes and one that could have been omitted. Liked it as a kid, and hope to share the experience with my kids someday.
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Summary: If you loved it as a kid
Review: I know this movie is amazingly corny. But I remember loving it as a kid when I saw it at the Cinerama theater in Santurce and enjoyed seeing it again on DVD. I guess kids today wouldn't like it too much and would find it boring, but if you liked it as a child go ahead and buy it.
The complaints about pan and scan are valid, but MGM did a great job on the transfer. This movie has never looked better. And they kept the Intermission that occurs just when the car is going to crash into the sea. I remember that Intermission pause really made an impact on me as a kid and it was great to see it on the DVD!
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Summary: "Scrumptious as the breeze across the Bay!"
Review: I never get bored of watching this movie; It truly is a gem. The stars are all fabulous; Dick Van Dyke is great as the off-beat single Pa (Caractucus Potts) to two gorgeous kiddies; Sally Ann Howes is the lovely fairytale-pretty female lead, Truly Scrumptious. They cause riots in sweetie factories, spend sunny afternoons on yummy beaches and then they all go on a fantasy adventure to an olde-worlde foreign land with a ruthless Baron and Baroness governing.
This film is all about daydreaming, candies, and all that's pretty and magical in life! Total whimsical escapism....
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Summary: Wait for WideScreen Format
Review: As others have stated, I intended to buy this DVD, until I realized it's "reformatted for your screen." I have a DVD in standard format -- I want widescreen, again because so much of the movie is missing when it's reformatted. I'll wait.
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Summary: Tape it on Turner Classics until a proper Letterbox DVD
Review: As many have already expressed, I loved this film growing up and never tire of watching it. I even met Sally Ann Howes two years ago when she was doing James Joyce's THE DEAD Off (then On) Broadway. I was planning on purchasing the DVD until I realized via the Amazon comments that the film was a pan and scan, not widescreen. A real shame. I taped it off Turner Classic Movies a few years ago, and out of curiousity popped in the tape, and sure enough it was in letterbox, widescreen format. So, until MGM releases a proper formatted DVD, I'd advise fans to keep an eye on the TCM schedule and tape it.
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Summary: Still a fun film but a disappointed in this DVD release
Review: This is one of the last big budget fantasy musicals before these films became just too expensive to produce. But Dick Van Dyke was at his zenith here and Sally Ann Howes was marvelous as well. Note that Ian Fleming wrote the original story and as a tribute there were two Bond actors in the cast. Gert Frobe as the King and Desmond Llewyn as Mr. Coggin. But I was very dissappointed to see this DVD released in the Pan and Scan format. I really don't understand why MGM/UA remastered the film in the THX process and used a clean beautiful video transfer and doesn't present the film in its original widescreen format. At one-third of the film is missing and its really difficult to watch this now considering I had owned the widescreen laserdisc of this film.
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Summary: Where's the WIDESCREEN version?
Review: On January 2001, a WIDESCREEN version of Chitty Chitty Bang
Bang was broadcast on TV in Tokyo (This is true!). Why don't
MGM release a WIDESCREEN version DVD in market? Strage
feeling isn't it?
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Summary: surrealism, I found you
Review: this has been a favorite all my life. Where else could you find a character scary enough to rival Dr Who's Cybermen (the Child Catcher)...see Benny Hill in a straight (nearly) acting role (the Toymaker)...a pseudoerotic Queen of Vulgaria, and just HOW did an American END up raising two kids by himself in Southern England at the turn of the century? there is a greater force at work, I tell you...Anyway, doesn't stop this old punk sneaking "Music Box" onto any CD he burns for his latest flame....and an endless source of amusement trying glibly to work lines from the movie into everyday conversation...("But it doesn't GO though, does it?")
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Summary: maybe they'll listen...
Review: maybe for their 45th anniversary edition MGM will remember themselves and put it in WIDE SCREEN FORMAT!!! there is SO much that is lost in the pan&scan version. when a film was done back in the 60s, wide screen was a perc still and MGM was still the best at utilizing the format. the wider the better and the more of the screen you used to pull in your audience the better,too. well, with today's technology, it's not uncommon to find that a film is done in both perspectives to apease everyone, but super panorama was engulfing. i miss that feeling. the film is pretty much only 1/2 there, and 1/2 a is musical just annoying. will not buy it till it's out and done proper. i have & LOVE the mary popins dvd - that was done right...4/20/4 - thank you, thank you, thank you!
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Summary: Will NOT buy without Widescreen
Review: What a waste....a fantastic movie intended for widescreen and ruined as a DVD Full Screen release. You won't get my money.
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