History YMMV / TheLoveBug

* FirstInstallmentWins: While ''Herbie Rides Again'' has the highest Rotten Tomatoes score among the 4 classic films (80% versus ''The Love Bug'''s 75%), the first film, ''The Love Bug'', is by far the most beloved.

** In "Herbie Rides Again", the miniature FX work during a scene in Hawk's warehouse is very noticeable, due to Herbie suddenly reducing in size while pushing items off shelves in the warehouse.

** The scene where Herbie traps Carole at the drive in combines this with HarsherInHindsight. Imagine you're watching this play out in real life. A car pulls up at a restaurant with a man and a woman inside. The woman wants out but can't get the door open. She becomes more and more frantic, begging and pleading the people on the outside to free her, but no one will help. The only other woman around, the waitress, not only won't even take a second to try and open the door, but ''scolds her'' for making a scene. ''Then'' she suggests to the man a more private spot where the police don't bother people. Would you assume that [[SentientVehicle the cheeky little car]] is trying to play [[TheMatchmaker matchmaker]],[[note]][[DistinctionWithoutADifference albeit coercively]][[/note]] or would you think that the guy rigged the door and that this woman has every right to be petrified? Considering that infamous murderer Ted Bundy really ''did'' own a [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/18/AR2010021803532.html white VW beetle]]...Ouch. Although, when they're at Seabreeze Point, the police officer does ask Carol whether she was being harassed by Jim.

** The scene where Herbie traps Carole at the drive in combines this with HarsherInHindsight. Imagine you're watching this play out in real life. A car pulls up at a restaurant with a man and a woman inside. The woman wants out but can't get the door open. She becomes more and more frantic, begging and pleading the people on the outside to free her, but no one will help. The only other woman around, the waitress, not only won't even take a second to try and open the door, but ''scolds her'' for making a scene. ''Then'' she suggests to the man a more private spot where the police don't bother people. Would you assume that [[SentientVehicle the cheeky little car]] is trying to play [[TheMatchmaker matchmaker]], or would you think that the guy rigged the door and that this woman has every right to be petrified? Considering that infamous murderer Ted Bundy really ''did'' own a [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/18/AR2010021803532.html white VW beetle]]...Ouch. Although, when they're at Seabreeze Point, the police officer does ask Carol whether she was being harassed by Jim.

** Tang Wu was meant to be considerably older than Benson Fong, who was only in his early 50's at the time of filming, so the actor was given grey hair. Unfortunately, the effect is [[https://myliveactiondisneyproject.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/love-bug-mr-wu.jpg not exactly convincing]], looking like someone touched up Fong's very black head of hair and eyebrows with a coat of gray paint; in many transfers of the film, it looks almost ''blue''.

** ''Herbie Goes Bananas'', despite normally possessing well-done or at least acceptable effects, has one shot (near the end of the bullfight scene) where the green screen looks ''hideously'' amateurish.

** Based on his grey hair, Tang Wu is meant to be considerably older than his actor Benson Fong, who was only in his early 50's at the time of filming; unfortunately, the effect is [[https://myliveactiondisneyproject.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/love-bug-mr-wu.jpg not exactly convincing]], looking like someone touched up Fong's very black head of hair and eyebrows with a coat of paint so gray that it looks blueish in Technicolor.

** The 53 gumball on Herbie's door is absent in the original film's "balancing" scene. It was a conscious choice: the bottom of the door had to be cropped so the car could clear the ground to do the stunt, which including the number would have called attention to. An odd example in that it isn't conspicuous in the film itself (it's excusable for the time period and barely noticeable in the scene itself), but a still from the scene was ''heavily'' circulated promotion and merchandising of the film, even continuing to be used when the movie was released on video.

** And, of course, the ever ubiquitous DrivingADesk shots.