Herbie Goes Bananas
by Vincent McEveety
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Actor: Charles Martin Smith, Cloris Leachman, Elyssa Davalos, John Vernon, Stephen W. BurnsDirector: Vincent McEveety
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Surround Sound
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-04
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Movie Reviews of Herbie Goes Bananas
Movie Review: one too many sequels
Summary: 2 Stars
This is what happens when you make one too many sequels of a popular family movie. Eventually, there's the temptation to dumb it down.
The nephew of Herbie's original owner goes to Mexico to pick up the little car with a friend, hoping to take it down to Brazil to enter a race. Unfortunately, they run into a young pickpocket, Paco (Joaquin Garay III), and end up too broke to get to the race.
So on the cruise ship, they befriend a woman (Cloris Leachman) and her studious daughter, and the woman agrees to sponsor them.
Unfortunately, that's the closest Herbie gets to the racetrack in this movie.
Meanwhile, Paco's gotten into worse trouble, picking the wrong pocket, and Herbie befriends him, and most of the movie is hijinks with Herbie, now called "Ocho," and Paco.
The brightest spot in the movie is when the cruise ship captain (Harvey Korman) and Cloris Leachman's character join Ocho and Paco in a bullfight.
The kid, I suppose, was supposed to be cutely mischievous, but I just found him annoying (pickpocketing is cute?). I wasn't alone. My sons were very vocal in their dislike of Paco.
I never understand why they do this: putting a kid in the place of an adult role. It hardly ever works. The original movie and the first few sequels were good and very funny, had semi-realistic adult characters, and--*golly*--kids still liked them. I suppose it's a matter of taste--I don't seem to share Hollywood's fascination with obnoxiously precocious children.
Summary of Herbie Goes Bananas
Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 03/28/2008 Run time: 93 minutes Rating: GThis fourth Love Bug movie is a wooden story about Herbie's funny adventures heading toward a race in Brazil. Charles Martin Smith and Steven W. Burns try hard to bring some life into this project, but it just doesn't happen. There is one good laugh in the whole thing, in a scene where Herbie becomes a matador. Otherwise, even the picturesque, south-of-the-border stuff doesn't help. --Tom Keogh
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