Set in exotic locations in Central America, the internationally renowned Herbie, everyone's favorite "love bug," demonstrates his special brand of "car-isma" and high-octane humor in this action-packed, stunt-filled comedy outing. The fun begins when Herbie sets sail for Rio de Janeiro's Grande Premio racing competition with his two new owners. En route, they get sidetracked by a smuggling syndicate, pestered by a pint-sized pickpocket, and bullied by a raging bull. Laughter shifts into high gear in this zany Disney comedy!
Product Details:
Actors:
Charles Martin Smith, Stephen W. Burns, Cloris Leachman, John Vernon, Elyssa Davalos
Director:
Vincent McEveety
Format:
Color, DVD, Surround Sound, Full Screen, NTSC
Language:
English, Spanish
Number of Discs:
1
Studio:
Walt Disney Video
Run Time:
100 minutes
DVD Release Date:
May 04, 2004
Average Customer Rating:
based on 15 reviews
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"It's a car, woman, not Lassie!"Oct 27, 2009 The death knell was audible when Herbie took his final drive in the 1980 Disney comedy HERBIE GOES BANANAS - and you may very well start going bananas when you watch it! Although noted comedy stars Harvey Korman and Cloris Leachman manage to redeem their scenes together (and they are a complete joy), the rest of the production lets them down.
Jim Douglas's nephew Pete (Stephen W. Burns) and his co-driver D.J. (Charles Martin Smith) travel south of the border to claim ownership of Herbie, but get hijacked instead by junior con-artist Paco (Joaquin Garay III). The true title of this movie should have been "Herbie Gets Trashed", because he spends most of the film operating as a waterlogged, graffiti-riddled taxi. Cloris Leachman steals many a scene as dotty Aunt Louise, who harbours a yen for the handsome, worldly Captain Blythe (Harvey Korman).
The early 80s weren't the best period for Disney comedies in the first place, with the studio in the process of transitioning most of it's live action projects to the Disney Channel. HERBIE GOES BANANAS earned solid business during it's theatrical run and has a sizable cult following if anything. Strictly for completists.
Herbie literally goes BananasSep 18, 2009 This is a lot different from the other Herbie movies, but I found it to be great fun. It is like all the old Disney movies - one the entire family can enjoy together. The movie begins with a young man inheriting Herbie, he and a friend try bringing Herbie home on a cruise ship - not realizing that a young local boy who had stolen a wallet belonging to a villan (as well as the friend of Herbie's new owner) was hiding under Herbie's hood. Naturally Herbie got loose on the ship and was driving himself around, and ended up being shoved into the ocean and the little boy was turned over to the authorities. They meet again and get into adventure after adventure just trying to keep a step ahead of the bad guys and the law. This was the first Herbie that let him show off on his own so much.
CUTE MOVIEMay 31, 2009 MY SON IS 3 AND HE ADORES THIS MOVIE! OF COURSE HE LOVES ALL OF HERBIE'S MOVIES...
A sour ending to one of the greatest movie carsApr 20, 2009 This is definitely a movie the Herbie franchise could've easily done without. I think t's got probably some the worst writing and out of all the sequels. Also, I think one of the major turnoffs is that they tried to place the kid Paco in a lead adult-type role, though I'm sure Disney thought it was "cute". The kid was just this annoying pickpocket that turned all the other characters against him, so I felt the movie was filled with conflicts between him and them, and less centered on Herbie. Since some of the main characters mention that Herbie was supposed race in the Brazil Grand Primio, the last Herbie movie should have been centered on this event, which I think would have been a strong finish to the films instead of all the meaningless nonsense that occured throughout this movie. The one high point are the great performances of Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman and Charles Martin Smith, whose talents were unfortunately wasted in this movie. I liked all other Herbie movies (heck, I even like the recent Linsay Lohan movie somewhat ). Don't waste your time on this movie.
one too many sequelsJun 26, 2008 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.
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