The Love Bug
The movie concerns the adventures of Sentient Vehicle Herbie, a '63 lovable Volkswagen Beetle with a mind and heart of its own. Out of gratitude, Herbie enables the luckless good guy to win one race after another.
15 June 1930, Denver, Colorado, USA
15 March 1914, New York City, New York, USA
13 July 1945, USA
12 June 1913, Poland
11 May 1930, Hollywood, California, USA
8 August 1909, Oakland, California, USA
5 May 1926, Brattleboro, Vermont, USA
29 May 1912, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 November 1918, Swainsboro, Georgia, USA
May 05, 2008
The first of the silly VW Beetle with a cute personality comedies, is as childish dated and occasionally sweet as the others.
December 24, 2005
Suffers now from dated special effects, but still cute.
June 24, 2006
'Herbie' and his plucky stunt drivers steal the show in this agreeable family entertainment.
May 24, 2003
The Boy-Car-Girl movie has some terrific driving stunts, thanks to a 127-man crew and the Porsche or bus engine given to the car with a mind of its own.
May 07, 2003
What this autopopathism means in terms of American culture is a subject I neither understand nor wish to.
May 05, 2008
For sheer inventiveness of situation and the charm that such an idea projects, The Love Bug rates as one of the better entries of the Disney organization.
January 02, 2011
Kids will fall in love with this spunky Bug.
May 09, 2005
Such a vulnerable movie that if it were a little less sappy, one might feel compelled to protect it, as if it were someone under 7 or over 65 -- that portion of the public for which it is intended.
May 05, 2008
The entire cast give standout performances, but Herbie steals the show in this well-directed, funny picture.
May 10, 2003
For a 35-year-old movie, Herbie's still got an awful lot of love to give.
March 09, 2009
The Love Bug is surely the first film in which the actors...are so meticulously insipid that a car can handily steal the show.
November 06, 2003
I'm a hopeless sucker for live-action '60s Disney, and this one is a classic.
