Renata Adler of The New York Times wrote that "in spite of the dreadful title, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang [. Just as Chitty is transformed from an old wreck into a gleaming machine, the film's DVD transfer sees the old Technicolor buffed up into a beautiful image of vivid colours and crystal clear clarity.

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More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. On 2 November 2010, MGM Home Entertainment, through 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, released a two-disc Blu-ray and DVD combination featuring the extras from the 2003 release, as well as new features. The songs in the film were written by the Sherman Brothers, who had composed the music for Mary Poppins.Post Honeycomb cereal contained a free plastic model of Chitty inside specially-marked boxes, with cutout wings for the car on the back of the box. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. The car, christened Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, now has the ability to fly, and takes the Potts and their friend, Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes) on an exciting adventure.

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That evening, Caractacus sings his children a lullaby (" Hushabye Mountain") before going to a carnival, where he attempts to raise money with another of his inventions, an automatic hair-cutting machine. The following July, it was announced the film would be produced by Broccoli, without Harry Saltzman, who was his producing partner on the James Bond films.For hardcore musical fans, there's a mildly interesting featurette on the London West End show, and an archive of the Sherman Brothers singing the songs they composed before changes were made for the movie. The family escape thanks to Chitty's miraculous transformation into a boat, and Truly goes home to Scrumptious Manor (" Lovely Lonely Man"). By April 1967, Ken Hughes was set to direct the film from a screenplay by Roald Dahl, [14] and Hughes claimed he subsequently rewrote Dahl's script. It was Originally produced by Eon Productions, Dana Broccoli, Frederick Zollo, Nicholas Paleologos, Jeffrey Sine, Miriam Productions and Michael Rose at The London Palladium. The review also said that the film's "eleven songs have all the rich melodic variety of an automobile horn.