To have never seen chitty chitty bang bang all the way through?

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Obviously have stuck it on for the dds on numerous occasions and know some of the songs, but I couldn't honestly tell you the plot. Is it any good?

OH GOD ITS INTERMINABLE

its never stops crapping on

once you get past the child catcher bit thats it for me

it is ok but god it saps the very soul of you

No. It's all a dream.

I've never seen any of it.

By jingo I wanted to be Truly Scrumpious though. I thought she was the prettiest person I had ever seen

YANBU I've never even seen the wizard of oz

Yep I've seen the childcatcher but how do they all end up in that country, is that a dream?

YANBU at all. It's shite. As is The Wizard of Oz and I'm not all that impressed by bloody Mary Poppins either (although I loved the books of both Oz and Mary P).

Mary poppins is bobbins.

Nope never seen it either. Or Mary Poppins or Singalong a Nazi Musical or whatever it's called which I've started once or twice and wandered away from/fallen asleep/turned off through boredom.

I like sound of music and I adore oliver.

Overrated, neverending pile of shite.

Me neither. Nor Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Nor Mary Poppins.

Hmm, the overriding opinion seems to be that if it's got cockerney accents (yes, Dick van Dyke, and especially that annoying blonde boy in BKABS, I'm looking at you) you can safely give it a miss.

YABVVVVU

Never seen bedknobs and I must admit I always wanted to whenever they showed clips on Disney time. Whatever happened to Disney time?

I think it's weird. Narratively, structurally.

I have no problem with plots being out-and-out fantasy - I can buy that - but the most interesting bit (everything from the ship arriving to the escape from Baron von Whatsit's castle) doesn't actually happen within the context of the plot. It's just a story told by Dick van Dyke to the kids on the beach.

So his whole relationship with Truly Scrumptious is non-existent. In narrative terms, when he sees her again in her car towards the end, they have literally only just met. And the Grandad doesn't build his TARDIS-like box to go to Africa either. And it does my head in trying to work out which bit of the narrative the two disguised spies belong to.

But DW thinks I am mad and it is one of DS's favourite films... so what do I know?!

Blimey uqd really? That has all completely gone over my head. It must have been an ian Fleming acid trip.

Love Mary Poppins, Wizard of Oz and Bedknobs. Do not like Chitty chitty bang bang. Even the kids aren't keen.

interminable is the word that springs to mind

I'm glued to Mary Poppins. frequently. But CCBB is charmless and boring

I do like the soppy "You Two" song DVD sings to the kids though. Cos I have delightful twins it brings a little tear to me world weary jaded yeller eye

at Sing along a Nazi musical. If only it was really called that

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is alright til they get to all that Vulgaria shit and then I lose interest. I didn't think all of the Truly Scrumptious relationship was imagined, the bit with the Toot Sweets was real wasn't it? And her going to the beach with them? So they do know each other a bit. Unless I totally lost the plot, which is quite possible.

cuh! at all the Sound of Music hatas on this thread

your hearts must all be like pickled walnuts

Never seen it either. DH tried to get me to sit through it once and I fell asleep after 3 minutes. Boooooring.

Haven't seen it either, but now I can't stop singing the song.

I haven't seen Sound of Music all the way through. Or Titanic, for that matter, although the sinking part seems to get played a lot in our house.

BANG BANG CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG
OUR FINE FOUR FENDERED FRIEND

BANG BANG....

Thank you seen. I have always thought it was "Our fine old feathered friend" and could never quite figure it out.

we didn't like the film as kids but we did enjoy singing the song

...and seeing how many "shittys" we could get past mum's radar before we got Told Off