Three years after Herbie Rides Again, the third movie of the franchise featuring the little Volkswagen who could takes Herbie overseas to reconnect with Jim Douglas (Dean Jones) and drive in a race from Paris to Monte Carlo. The race isn’t the only plot of the film, however.
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Providing Jason Statham with his first action franchise, The Transporter casts him as expert driver Frank Martin who will transport packages (no questions asked) for any client willing to pay his rate and meet his very specific set of rules. Getting in trouble by breaking his own rules by looking in a moving package holding a kidnapped Shu Qi, Frank’s world is soon put in jeopardy by his irate client (Matt Schulze).
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Conceived out of Disney’s attempts to crack the popular disaster film genre of the time, while incorporating space elements as well, 1979’s The Black Hole became Disney’s first PG film as it followed the crew of the USS Palomino (Robert Forster, Ernest Borgnine, Yvette Mimieux, and Joseph Bottoms) who encounter the long-lost USS Cygnus anchored in the wake of a gigantic black hole.
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The highlights of Antoine Fuqua‘s Michael are the music (how could they not be) and Michael Jackson‘s own nephew Jaafar Jackson stepping into the King of Pop’s shoes. Jaafar nails Michael’s movements as the film, and the character, come alive on-stage. The problem is the stage is really the only place Michael works.
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Made six years after The Love Bug, Herbie Rides Again brings back the willful Volkswagen Beetle, and the setting of the firehouse, but nothing else. With Jim Douglas having left to race in Europe. Herbie has been left in the hands of his landlady Mrs. Steinmetz (Helen Hayes) who he seems to enjoy driving around and who is the last holdout preventing Alonzo A. Hawk (Keenan Wynn) from demolishing the area to build a new skyscraper.
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