Tuesday, February 14, 2012

The Love Bug (1968)

An automobile race pilot down on his career finds a car which appears to have a mind of its own.

This silly movie has some identities with the Wacky Races cartoon which came out three months before it; it also seems to have influenced a horror novel (and subsequent film version) named Christine. But before all those, in 1965, there was a TV series (which I have no recollection of having ever seen) called My Mother the Car. The Love Bug has a serious theme buried under the supernatural and romantic antics which make for its surface plot: people like to think they "made" something which is simply the product of technology.

Rating: 36

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