History YMMV / ChittyChittyBangBang

* RetroactiveRecognition: An inventor is played by Creator/KennethWaller, who would later be best known for playing Old Mr. Grace in ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' and Granddad in ''Series/{{Bread|1986}}''.

* RetroactiveRecognition: An inventor is played by Creator/KennethWaller, who would later be best known for playing Old Mr. Grace in ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' and Grandad in ''Series/{{Bread}}''.

* TearJerker: "Hushaby Mountain", in more ways than one. It's a beautiful lullaby, but its haunting tune and minor key really help the already somber moment. The stage version makes it even more poignant by mentioning that Jemima and Jeremy's MissingMom always used to sing it to them. Then there's the DarkReprise: when Caractacus is singing this to the children of Vulgaria, shortly after his own children have been taken from him, he stops in the middle, too hopeless to continue.

* SlowPacedBeginning: The movie is two-and-a-half hours long and the titular car doesn't show up until 50 minutes in. And it's only twenty minutes after ''that'' that actual plot (the part that's AllJustADream) starts. Not surprisingly, it originally ran with an intermission, which some home video releases reinstate.

* RetroactiveRecognition: An inventor is played by Creator/KennethWaller, who would later be best known for playing Old Mr. Henry Grace in ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' and Grandad in ''Series/{{Bread}}''.

* WTHCastingAgency: Creator/BennyHill as a toymaker? Especially bad since he is basically playing a dramatic role (most of his scenes are somber or tense).

* SweetnessAversion: Part of why the film was not a success in its time and to this day still has a fair amount of detractors. While its fans love its innocent camp, non-fans don't care for the perceived sentimentality of its main characters -- the children especially -- and "pip pip, cheerio" British attitude. Intentionally subverted with "Chu-Chi Face". The lyrics are sugary sweet, but they're undermined by the Baron repeated trying to kill his wife throughout the number. Yet, some kids couldn't even watch the Child Catcher parts because the film [[VileVillainSaccharineShow suddenly turned so scary]].

* IdiotPlot: Yes, Jeremy and Jemima, go with the [[CreepyStalkerVan creepy man offering you candy and ice cream]] through the window in the cellar where you're hiding, the same one who ''just tried to kidnap you'' who just [[PaperThinDisguise put on a different coat and hat]], even after your father has ''specifically'' told you not to leave. [[SarcasmMode He seems trustworthy]]. Granted, this is a story-within-a-movie being told by their father and children aren't known for making good decisions, especially where bright colors and promises of sweets are involved.

* NarmCharm: The film is ''very'' much a product of its time, made in an era in the late 60s when movie studios were making a last ditch effort to keep campy movie musicals alive and popular. Not everyone is on board with it (see "TastesLikeDiabetes"), but those who are love it specifically because it's so campy and cheerful.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: Part of why the film was not a success in its time and to this day still has a fair amount of detractors. While its fans love its innocent camp, non-fans don't care for the perceived sentimentality of its main characters -- the children especially -- and "pip pip, cheerio" British attitude. Intentionally subverted with "Chu-Chi Face". The lyrics are sugary sweet, but they're undermined by the Baron repeated trying to kill his wife throughout the number.
** Yet, some kids couldn't even watch the Child Catcher parts because the film [[VileVillainSaccharineShow suddenly turned so scary]].

* NightmareFuel: The Child Catcher. An androgynous [[Literature/HarryPotter Snape]]-like creature with an UncannyValley SinisterSchnoz dressed in black who dances about singing the joys of candy and ice cream all as a ploy to lure children into his cart and then lock them in giant circus cages.

* IdiotPlot: Yes, Jeremy and Jemima, go with the [[AdultFear creepy man offering you candy and ice cream]] through the window in the cellar where you're hiding, the same one who ''just tried to kidnap you'' who just [[PaperThinDisguise put on a different coat and hat]], even after your father has ''specifically'' told you not to leave. [[SarcasmMode He seems trustworthy]]. Granted, this is a story-within-a-movie being told by their father and children aren't known for making good decisions, especially where bright colors and promises of sweets are involved.

* WeirdAlEffect: In a certain way. Younger viewers may better know two of the tunes from this film by their use on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': "You Two" became "I've Got James Woods", and "Me Ol' Bamboo" became "A Bag of Weed".

* PoorMansSubstiute: It's really obvious that the role of Truly Scrumptious was meant for Creator/JulieAndrews.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: Part of why the film was not a success in its time and to this day still has a fair amount of detractors. While its fans love its [[NarmCharm innocent camp]], non-fans don't care for the perceived sentimentality of its main characters -- the children especially -- and "pip pip, cheerio" British attitude. Intentionally subverted with "Chu-Chi Face". The lyrics are sugary sweet, but they're undermined by the Baron repeated trying to kill his wife throughout the number.

** Did Caractacus add Chitty’s flying and floating abilities, or were they part of the “magic” that chitty had? His initial surprise at the car turning into a boat comes across as playful surprise rather than genuine, and later when the car turns into the flying version, Caractacus seems to know that the car could do that based on his subdued reaction to it flying.

* SpiritualAdaptation: Being based off an Creator/IanFleming story, and made by Albert "Cubby" Broccoli [[ProductionPosse and many of the same people]] involved in the Film/JamesBond films, some people consider it a Bond movie of sorts.

* NightmareFuel: The Child Catcher. An androgynous [[Literature/HarryPotter Snape-like creature]] dressed in black who dances about singing the joys of candy and ice cream all as a ploy to lure children into his cart and then lock them in giant circus cages.

** Yet, some kids couldn't even watch the Child Catcher parts because the film suddenly turned so scary.

* IdiotBall: Yes, Jeremy and Jemima, go with the [[AdultFear creepy man offering you candy and ice cream]] through the window in the cellar where you're hiding, the same one who ''just tried to kidnap you'' who just [[PaperThinDisguise put on a different coat and hat]], even after your father has ''specifically'' told you not to leave. [[SarcasmMode He seems trustworthy]]. Granted, this is a story-within-a-movie being told by their father and children aren't known for making good decisions, especially where bright colors and promises of sweets are involved.

** "Someone to care for, to be there for [[{{Mondegreen}} I have]] Website/YouTube!"

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Are the events in the second half of the film a case of AllJustADream, or did they really happen? Key factors in the second possibility come from the ending where we see Chitty fly over The Pott’s home, as well as Grandpa’s hut still missing in the ground shots, and while it does appear in the flying shots at the end, this could be mitigated to being a flub on the directors part.
** The portion at the end where we see the family back on the beach could be chalked up to them coming back to that spot to finish their interrupted picnic after dropping off grandpa at the house, but this is just a theory.
* Did Caractacus add Chitty’s flying and floating abilities, or were they part of the “magic” that chitty had? His initial surprise at the car turning into a boat comes across as playful surprise rather than genuine, and later when the car turns into the flying version, Caractacus seems to know that the car could do that based on his subdued reaction to it flying.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpreitation: Are the events in the second half of the film a case of AllJustADream, or did they really happen? Key factors in the second possibility come from the ending where we see Chitty fly over The Pott’s home, as well as Grandpa’s hut still missing in the ground shots, and while it does appear in the flying shots at the end, this could be mitigated to being a flub on the directors part.

* AlternativeCharacterInterperitation: Are the events in the second half of the film a case of AllJustADream, or did they really happen? Key factors in the second possibility come from the ending where we see Chitty fly over The Pott’s home, as well as Grandpa’s hut still missing in the ground shots, and while it does appear in the flying shots at the end, this could be mitigated to being a flub on the directors part.

* IdiotBall: Yes, Jeremy and Jemima, go with the [[AdultFear creepy man offering you candy and ice cream]] though the window in the cellar where you're hiding, the same one who ''just tried to kidnap you'' who just [[PaperThinDisguise put on a different coat and hat]], even after your father has ''specifically'' told you not to leave. [[SarcasmMode He seems trustworthy]]. Granted, this is a story-within-a-movie being told by their father and children aren't known for making good decisions, especially where bright colors and promises of sweets are involved.

* SlowPacedBeginning: The movie is two-and-a-half hours long and the titular car doesn't show up until 50 minutes in. And it's only twenty minutes after ''that'' that actual plot (the part that's AllJustADream) starts.