La Coccinelle revient

The last of the series is surprisingly good.After so many years of absence Lohan rides Herbie with humor,a little romance and lots of action.Dilon very good as well as the villain.

This was the most entertaining movie we've seen all year. I dreaded taking the kids to this movie thinking it was going to play too heavily to the feminist, because the lead is a girl. I was worried I would be bored. Thankfully they don't keep throwing the fact that she is female in our face. No obvious agenda, just a fun movie. Also, the writing is excellent even though it is something like the sixth Herbie movie. I actually laughed out loud many times and the audience applauded and cheered many times during the film. How often does that happen? We will buy this one on DVD when it comes out and we only buy one or two DVDs a year. Matt Dillon is great. He's better looking now than he was 15 years ago! Michael Keaton is great, too. Quality acting and directing. I think the folks giving it such a low rating must have been trying to take it too seriously.

Really good watch, would watch again, and can recommend. It's fun to see a callback to a movie like Herbie, and this certainly leans into it. This is also basically the last movie where Lindsay Lohan is still looks good on screen, or at least cute. Lohan and Herbie pretty much carry the movie despite some good supporting parts by the rest of the cast. While I'm used to seeing Justin Long playing a support role, and Matt Dillon is the "villain", it is a bit odd to see Michael Keaton play such a small, if appropriate, role. The unbelievability of Herbie being a racecar and the crazy amount of effort that is put into making Herbie a real character should be a downside of the movie, but it makes it remarkably charming in the best of ways.