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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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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Largely forgotten, the 1997 entry in the Herbie franchise was a TV-movie which premiered on The Wonderful World of Disney. Perhaps the first requel, The Love Bug follows the same structure of the original film with Herbie falling through the hands of a villain (John Hannah) and into the possession of a mechanic and failed race car driver who has seen better days. While confused by the odd things which happen in the car, Hank Cooper (Bruce Campbell) refuses to acknowledge its sentience, or Herbie’s help in winning a race, leaving his wacky best bud (Kevin J. O’Connor) to be the one who first connects with the car. And, just for good measure, we get a romantic story thrown in as well.
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1969’s The Love Bug introduced audiences to Herbie, a sentient 1963 Volkswagen Beetle who comes into the possession of washed-up racecar driver Jim Douglas (Dean Jones). Douglas regains confidence driving the remarkable little car, finds love in the unlikely assistant (Michele Lee) to his villainous rival (David Tomlinson), and finally learns to accept and appreciate Herbie as far more than a car.
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