It’s Spirit … with a car! It’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang … with 60s slapstick and a teenybopper soundtrack! This movie already had a spot reserved in my DVD collection ‘cos of the presence of Lindsay Lohan, but I’ve gotta say, Lindsay is just icing on this movie, it would’ve been great even without her.

I remember that I used to love the old Herbie movies when I was a kid, but I have no recollection of the movies themselves. Having said that though, this new version felt like it hit all the same notes, and to me that was pretty surprising, I figured they’d totally overhaul the idea and modernise, hip it up, etc. – if for no other reason that I just couldn’t imagine Lindsay Lohan in a movie like the original Herbies.

My only complaint is they didn’t use the original theme tune nearly enough … but it’s very cool that they used it at all, I guess, and when they do use it, this movie is absolutely awesome (I think the new remix will probably be on my second “best of 2005” playlist). I’ve gotta say something about Michael Keaton though … I mean first First Daughter and now this – he’s great in both these movies, he’s great in everything, but these little father roles are kind of insulting. I’m really really praying he gets to be Joker in the next Batman movie, I realise it’s a long shot, but it makes so much sense and it’d make my decade, lol.

I was about to say I guess this is the last ginger Lindsay movie but I just went to the IMDb and there are pics from Just My Luck up and yay she’s at least one more ginger flick to come lol. Dye your hair back, Lindsay, it’s totally you :-p

Final sidenote: this movie might finally have made me interested in Pixar’s Cars. I’m not remotely interested in cars and stuff in real life, but like I guess mention Chitty or Herbie and I get a little excited. I’ve always loved cinematic car chases, and even if Cars is just a feature length race with crazy camera angles and a good score, even then it could be pretty cool.

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