The first of the silly VW Beetle with a cute personality comedies, is as childish dated and occasionally sweet as the others.
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05/05/08
The Love Bug (1969)
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Reviews Counted:15
Fresh:11
Rotten:4
Average Rating:5.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Disney family film about a struggling race car driver who begins winning races once he starts driving Herbie, a Volkswagen with human qualities. What the driver does not realize is that it is the... [More]
Starring: Dean Jones, Michele Lee, Buddy Hackett, David Tomlinson
Director: Robert Stevenson
Reviews for The Love Bug
1 - 15 (sorted by rotten rating; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticThe Boy-Car-Girl movie has some terrific driving stunts, thanks to a 127-man crew and the Porsche or bus engine given to the car with a mind of its own.
05/24/03
Top Critic'Herbie' and his plucky stunt drivers steal the show in this agreeable family entertainment.
06/24/06
Top CriticThe Love Bug is surely the first film in which the actors...are so meticulously insipid that a car can handily steal the show.
03/09/09
Top CriticWhat this autopopathism means in terms of American culture is a subject I neither understand nor wish to.
05/07/03
Such a vulnerable movie that if it were a little less sappy, one might feel compelled to protect it, as if it were someone under 7 or over 65 -- that portion of the public for which it is intended.
05/09/05
Top CriticThe entire cast give standout performances, but Herbie steals the show in this well-directed, funny picture.
05/05/08
Top Critic
No review available.
08/27/04
For a 35-year-old movie, Herbie's still got an awful lot of love to give.
05/10/03
No review available.
03/23/04
No review available.
08/21/05
I'm a hopeless sucker for live-action '60s Disney, and this one is a classic.
11/06/03
Suffers now from dated special effects, but still cute.
12/24/05
For sheer inventiveness of situation and the charm that such an idea projects, The Love Bug rates as one of the better entries of the Disney organization.
05/05/08
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