Herbie The Love Bug 45th Anniversary Blu-ray - Disney Exclusive

Great in its time and still everything that I remember also as a young adult. They had to work to get a great moving action scene in that time span. Pre CGI you know. I liked the 2000's version too, but it's hard to make good "remake" when you've seen the original. (?) It was based on road/rally racing. How many, in NASCAR history, did you ever see a Volkswagen Beetle allowed to race in its competition? Lol. Bootleggers...started racing anything sure, but a Volkswagen(?). Nope. Sure I guess you could say the same for the original "Herbbie" was racing against Ferrari's, Lamborghini's and other sports cars in that Era. You won't be disappointed. Buy them all.

The Love Bug isn't exactly a Disney classic. It's enjoyable, but largely forgettable and lacking the production values the very best of Disney's live action output from the 1950's and 60's had. Still, you can't go wrong with Buddy Hackett. The antiseptic romance is fairly dull, but 'Herbie' livens things up as only an inanimate object, imbued with a sense of the supernatural could. This Blu-ray transfer is problematic. It's soft, on occasion, almost out of focus. The razor-sharp crispness we've come to expect from hi-def is decidedly lacking. Part of the problem is owed to imperfect elements. But contrast herein looks a tad boosted to my eyes; the colors a tad overly bright and the grain exaggerated beyond what it ought to be. In some scenes its barely visible while in others it decidedly distracts. Inconsistencies aside, this isn't a terrible Blu-ray. But it has a long way to go to rate a perfect score. The seller was great. You can buy with confidence.

The movie plays well, the footage is clean and the sound is good. Sadly, there are no extra features, at all. The 2004 DVD 2 disc set had a second disc of extra features that could have been added onto this Blu Ray and they are nowhere to be seen.Things like the original trailer, cast interviews and commentary (one of the last things Buddy Hackett did before his passing) have all been omitted in this release. Unless you are a stickler for video quality, this reissue doesn't have much to offer.

A+

The start of a number of movies about this lovable little car with a mind of its own as it shows it's human 'partners' how to win races and a thing or two about life whilst gaining revenge on it's persecutor.

I like this version over the dvd version because there were not any black spots in the movie. The color of the format of picture is pretty much hd. I would recommend this to anyone. All smiles here.

We've come along way from the movies of the past. My family is restoring a bug and I bought the movie hoping to inspire my kids. But my kids are used to the technology of Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and Iron man. Herbie just didn't have the "wow" factor I remember as a kid.

Fantastic