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Cars

posted 15 years ago by Paul-308
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What is it with the Beetles used in this series? Standard pre-71 Bugs,1971-up 1302S Supers,1973-up 1303S Supers,Oval window....hubcaps,chrome steel wheels,aluminum cast wheels,stock painted silver wheels....stock exhaust,twin sport exhaust...no stripes,black stripes with "Tuning".....rear wiper,no rear wiper....tan seats,black seats....no headrest,EMPI headrest,stock highbacks...sunroof,no sunroof....chrome hood strip,missing chrome hood strip,broken chrome hood strip....."DU DU" painting on engine lid left side,DUDU painting on right side of lid,no DUDU painted on engine lid...1/2 ski rack on air intake louvers,no 1/2 rack on louvers......center roof mounted antenna vertical whip,center roof mounted antenna backward bent whip,no roof mounted antenna......talking computer,non talking computer.....Roof rack and side ladder,missing rack and side ladder........rear wheel paddles,missing rear wheel paddles.......white painted interior and doorjams,all yellow painted interior/jams........
You would think the producers would have had the common sense to keep the cars as close as possible(just buy like 6 similar beetles at the same time/new or used/and outfit them identically).

[–] duduherb53 15 years ago

I agree! i think one of the things that irritates me most about the makers of these films is that they treat the audience like idiots, ie 'any old yellow beetle will do, no one will notice the differences'.
At least with this 2nd film the basic model of Bug seemed to stay vaguely consistent, unlike the first and 3rd movies.

In terms of watchability, i think only die-hard VW obsessives like myself can stomach the whole thing as you're likely to get bored to death by most of the talky scenes (not to mention become terribly confused as to what exactly the plot is, it's hardly crystal clear).

Some of the stunts are ok, but some just fall flat like the floating car bits. It sort of look ok from a distance, but up close the platform it's sitting on (seemingly made out of wooden pallets) is very obvious.

And the terrible bit when the villains are spun around on dudu's front seats is too terrible for words!

They got better in the 3rd film.

[–] assimilator47 13 years ago

You all miss the point entirely:

this movie was low budget made in the early 70's.
Low budget.
Early 70's.

Besides: it was a fun movie for audiences at the time; just a good sunday-afternoon tv-movie. Dude movies were quite popular in their days.

And for kids, it's magic. So don't take away the magic for kids, but just enjoy a nice low budget movie.

"If we're going to be damned anyway, then let's be damned for who we really are."