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.
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.
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.
I'm a hopeless sucker for live-action '60s Disney, and this one is a classic.
Common Sense Media
January 02, 2011
Kids will fall in love with this spunky Bug.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
December 24, 2005
Suffers now from dated special effects, but still cute.
New York Times
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.
Chicago Reader
May 07, 2003
What this autopopathism means in terms of American culture is a subject I neither understand nor wish to.
