I guess you still CAN make movies as bloated as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

This is it. 40 years later a movie that sucks in the exact way that "Chitty C Bang B" did.

Longer than childs interes or bladder will allow them to focus - check! (120 minutes)
Horribly phony sky-based effects - check!
Horrible flying effects (wire-work) - check!
Script a structural mess
Maudlin "acting"
Encountering other cultures but remaining utterly shallow

As a bonus it also has 'funny' cameos written by someone with a tin ear for humor. Nothing at all here approaches wit, it's just people acting funny, and wall to wall vacuity.