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If you love to watch movies, you have to see this one. Grab the kids and rent or buy this movie, it is a movie you and the whole family will love!!!!!!! I could not stop laughing during this movie, it will make you laugh and make you cry!!!
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I thought this movie might be good and was I ever wrong! Boring and no plot describe this movie and I expected better from Lindsay Lohan. This was totally predictable and lame!!! Also Lindsay said "Oh my God" like 5 times in the first 5 minutes. I felt like saying "shut-up!"
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"Bruno was right - they never come back" were the words that Dean Jones's character, Jim Douglas, said in Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo, when it appeared that his famous Volkswagen Beetle and him were not going to win the race. Many naysayers said the same thing about Disney wanting to revive the Love Bug movie franchise, after a twenty-five year absence. With the exception of a low-budget television movie (that poorly explained the origin of the little car that lived, in 1997), Disney had virtually ignored Herbie all together since 1980. Not only were videos of the four movies released between 1968 and 1980 hard to find, but also zero officially licensed merchandise was available. No children's books, pictures, posters, t-shirts, hats, key chains, or toys of Herbie were mass-produced for public consumption. However, with the onset trend of producing all-things-retro in the 2000s, Disney picked up the pace to win the summer movie hit race this year, just as Jim and Herbie won the Monte Carlo race.
The story of Herbie Fully Loaded is about the turns in life that often change the destinies or futures that people may expect of themselves. This is true of all of the characters in the movie, including Herbie, himself. Just as Maggie Peyton (Lindsay Lohan) is all set to move to New York to begin a journalism career at ESPN, she finds that her home in California is beckoning her to stay. Herbie, the 1963 VW Beetle that used to win many races in the `60s and `70s, has been abandoned by a previous owner, and is now left in a junkyard, waiting for the end of time. The two collide when Maggie's father, Ray Peyton, Sr. (Michael Keaton) takes Maggie to the junkyard to buy her a cheap car as a graduation gift. As car and woman get to know each other, they challenge each other's pre-notions about their fates. After Maggie loses Herbie, she realizes what the car means to her, as does racing, and sets out to win him back. This leads to the big NASCAR championship finale at the climate of the movie, and, ultimately, the life lessons learned.
There is a handful of great material in the DVD, including a generous portion of deleted scenes from the movie. In fact, there are so many deleted scenes added in the DVD, that you can discover a whole subplot that was dropped from the theatrical release. The subplot is about why Ray Peyton, Jr. (Brekin Meyer) is not destined to be the next Great Peyton in the racing world - he would rather be a drummer than a driver, and he methodically goes about sabotaging his racing career. In the theatrical release, the audience is left confused about why Ray, Jr. keeps crashing into walls - at one point, believed to be because he has a depth perception issue - and then catches Maggie's championship flowers at the end, leaving Maggie to question her own brother's eyesight. Ray, Jr. doesn't explain to Maggie or us, and the writing in the big finale scene is weakened by this event.
Other scenes also show an intense rivalry between Trip Murphy (Matt Dillon) and Ray, Jr. In one scene, Ray, Sr. has to step in and separate the two. At the same time, we get a hint that Maggie is taken with Trip, a crush that she developed as a teenager. This would have helped explain some scenes kept in the movie, such as why Maggie would have accepted Trip's invitation to drive his stock car, and leave Herbie, vicariously, in Trip's care (or, in this case, in harm's way). Finally, another scene determines how much emotionally and romantically Maggie means to her ex-boyfriend Kevin (Justin Long), when they go out for dinner.
As standard with many DVDs, a blooper reel is included. Thank God for the DVD format, as I, personally, was getting tired of seeing goofy out-takes during the ending credits. Some funny stuff, but nothing to bust a gut over.
Lohan's music video: "First" is also included in the DVD, but is an uninspiring song. There is little use of this video being in here, other than to please any teenagers that dig Lohan as a cool Hollywood actor or an attractive young woman. The video, itself, has little to do with Herbie Fully Loaded, and the song has nothing to do with the movie or character.
The rest of the features of the DVD are great: the making of the movie, the building of the stunt cars, substantial interviews with the director Angela Robinson, the production team, and the stunt car crew. However, the interviews feature is brought down by the sound bytes that Lohan provides. This can be forgiven, if you are not searching for deep meaning or deep, dark personal secrets to be exposed. This is Disney, and the answers are polished.
While all of the deleted scenes add up to approximately twenty minutes of footage, and would have pushed the movie to 2 hours in length, the feeling is that the studio wanted less focus on all the characters and more focus on Lohan. Maggie Peyton is a strong character, but Lindsay Lohan is not a great actor, and this is the one time that the studio should have allowed the director to keep all the cutting room floor material in the flick. Regardless, though, this is the type of movie, in its theatrical release form, that will please many young children and the parents who watched Herbie before the Douglas character departed all together. Critics panned Disney, not only for cashing in on an old proven character and product, but also for using low-resolution computer-graphics as "updated" special effects. While I agree with them on those two points, the one thing that the critics didn't count on making this movie a hit in the theatres - and possibly as a DVD release - is that kids, no matter what generation they are born in, will be awestruck by a funny-looking, little car that has a mind of its own, is good-natured, and can be as a playful as the children watching.
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Lindsay Lohan is a young actress with a mostly teenage following and in this movie, "Herbie: Fully Loaded" she stretches her audience appeal downward, to the younger age crowd. She stars in this film as a young woman about to graduate from college who has many things on her career plate, but wants more than anything to drive race cars. The family tree has many NASCAR racers, and Lindsay's character wants to continue this legacy even though her father is uneasy with the idea.
This movie is based on the old "Herbie" movies and television series from the past. The Volkswagen bug with the mind of a human is the centerpiece of this film and he plays a major part in the movie's final outcome. One thing that I expected to be different was the appearance of Herbie. Considering this is the year 2005, I expected to see dazzling special effects that would make Herbie look and act more like a person. But the director resisted the urge to add excessive special effects and instead chose to make Herbie more of a car than a person. I'm glad this decision was made, because the movie would have too surreal otherwise. There is maybe one or two scenes where the special effects are strong. Other than that, Herbie looks like an ordinary Volkswagen bug.
There is a little bit of humor to be found in this film, but it is the type that will appeal mostly to the 5 to 15 year- old crowd. There are scenes where Herbie displays his anger by spraying people with automotive fluids and some mildly funny scenes were Herbie falls in love with another Volkswagen bug. This is it for the funny stuff and unless you're less than fifteen years of age, you will likely not find it all that amusing.
The soundtrack from this film included many old songs from the 1970 to 1985 era, like "Jump" by Van Halen, "Hello" by Lionel Ritchie, and covers of old tunes like "Born to be Wild" and "Roll on Down the Highway". I like most of these songs, but they didn't seem to fit together very well for this movie. When I listened to these songs in the movie, I invariably started to wonder why a different song wasn't selected with the majority of the scenes. These aren't bad songs by any means but I can think of many tunes that would have made for a better soundtrack.
Overall, this movie is simple and flat, without much of a plot and without anything terribly memorable- both in its storyline and in its performances. It's generally very predictable, too, with few surprises if any. But I'm going to give it a small recommendation regardless. It is lacking overall, but it makes for some good, clean family entertainment- the type of movie you can take any family member to see (It was given a "G" rating- something you don't see much nowadays), regardless of age, without feeling guilty.
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Is the fith movie in the Love Bug Collection and it is the best, outside the Love Bug. Herbie is back and better than ever. They did very good stickin' with Herbies Personality in this one than they did in Herbie Goes Banannas. what i like about this herbie he is totally puppet only a few special efects are in it and the director keeps orginal to the first movie. Lindsay Lohan does an incredible job at her role.
Plot: Maggie(Lindsay Lohan) just graduated from collage and is back at home and her father(Michael Keaton) wants to bye her a grad present, so they go to a junkyard called Crazy daves. maggie looks around and notice this car she likes alot. But then out of no where a little bug drops on the car and it's Herbie. Maggie has no choice but to buy herbie. now maggie has this crazy little car she has to enter into a race or her father loses his bussiness. can Maggie & herbie Win the race and save the day. Well you'll have to rent it and find out.
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5: Herbie: Fully Loaded the Motion Picture Soundtrack
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