Herbie Goes Bananas
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| Directed by | Vincent McEveety |
| Produced by | Kevin Corcoran Ron Miller Don Tait |
| Written by | Gordon Buford Don Tait |
| Starring | Cloris Leachman Harvey Korman Charles Martin Smith Stephen W. Burns John Vernon Elyssa Davalos Joaquin Garay, III Richard Jaeckel Alex Rocco |
| Music by | Frank De Vol |
| Cinematography | Frank V. Phillips |
| Editing by | Gordon D. Brenner |
| Distributed by | Walt Disney Pictures Corporation |
| Release date(s) | June 25, 1980 |
| Running time | 98 min. |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo |
| Followed by | The Love Bug (1997 film) |
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Herbie Goes Bananas (1980) was the fourth of a series of films made by Walt Disney Productions starring Herbie – the white Volkswagen racing Beetle with a mind of its own.
This was the third sequel in The Love Bug (1969) series, and the last for 25 years until the release of Herbie: Fully Loaded in 2005.
Tagline: Olé! It's south of the border disorder when... [HERBIE GOES BANANAS!]
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[edit] Plot
Loosely picking up where Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo left off, Pete Stancheck (Stephen W. Burns) has inherited the one-of-a-kind automobile from his uncle Jim Douglas. Pete treks to Mexico with his friend Davy "D.J." Johns (Charles Martin Smith) to retrieve the car. There, they come across little Paco (Joaquin Garay, III), a puny orphaned pickpocket. Unbeknownst to them, Paco has hitched a ride under Herbie's hood to avoid three other irate victims of his thievery.
Pete and Davie board a ship to Rio de Janeiro to enter Herbie in the Brazil Grand Primeo. On the trip, they meet a shy bookworm named Melissa (Elyssa Davalos) and her extragavant, dotty aunt Louise (Cloris Leachman), who is trying to find a man for her niece. When Herbie wreaks havoc on board, Pete and Davie come up with a plan to cover the costs. Pete pretends to like Melissa and Aunt Louise is soon sponsoring the guys for their race.
Meanwhile, Herbie helps Paco, who has dubbed the car 'Ocho' (which means 'eight' in Spanish, Paco simply added together the individual numerals in Herbie's number 53), escape captivity. When the gung-ho Captain Blythe (Harvey Korman) has his costume party wrecked by the mischievous boy and car, he puts Herbie on trial and sentences him to be dropped in the sea. Herbie becomes a rustbucket as a result of immersion in the salt water, but is rescued from the sea by Paco and is later disguised as a taxi. Then there is an Incan gold plot, Herbie taking part in a bullfight, romance between Aunt Louise and Captain Blythe, and some bananas which are initially used to camouflage Herbie in a convoy of farm vehicles travelling to market – and later used to comic effect by Herbie and Paco in an attempt to stop the villains escaping in their plane. The bad guys (headed by Animal House alum John Vernon) are in pursuit of Paco, who misplaced some important film when he ripped off their wallets.
Herbie Goes Bananas did not do well at the box office during the summer of 1980.
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[edit] Trivia
- Joaquin Garay, III was born the same year The Love Bug was released (1969).
- Herbie is not once referred to by his name by any of the principal characters in this movie; the only person who knows Herbie's true name is the garage owner.
- Although Captain Blythe claims at the costume party that his fancy dress outfit is an exact replica of that worn by Admiral Lord Nelson, this is not the case. Blythe sports an eyepatch, something which Nelson is rumored to have worn after he was blinded in his right eye but never actually did.
- The Herbie thrown into the sea was never retrieved, and its fate remains unknown; one can only assume that it is either rotting on the sea bed or is still bobbing around somewhere!
- This movie is very inaccurate when you take into account geography: there are no Plaza de Toro in Panama; although there are Panamanian locations featured, most of the movie seemed to be filmed in Mexico, since most people dress in Mexican fashions; and Peru cannot be reached from Panama by land (the trip would take at least four days and five nights of travel).
- Only a few of the rust Herbies that were used are left despite being sold for a mere $25.00 each, cheaper than even a junked Honda Civic at the time.
- The dilapidated bus that Melissa purchases from the bus driver toward the middle of the movie appears to be a 1957-60 Ford with a Blue Bird school bus body.
[edit] External links
- Herbie Goes Bananas at the Internet Movie Database
- Herbie Goes Bananas at All Movie Guide
- Herbie Goes Bananas at Rotten Tomatoes
- Herbie Goes Bananas at Box Office Mojo
- Herbie Mania Website
| The Herbie films |
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| The Love Bug (1969) • Herbie Rides Again (1974) • Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977) • Herbie Goes Bananas (1980) • Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005) Made for TV: Herbie the Matchmaker (1982) • The Love Bug (1997) |
