Product Details

• Actors: Charles Martin Smith, Stephen W. Burns, Cloris Leachman, John Vernon, Elyssa Davalos
• Directors: Vincent McEveety
• Writers: Don Tait, Gordon Buford
• Producers: Don Tait, Kevin Corcoran, Ron Miller
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English, Spanish
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Walt Disney Video
• VHS Release Date: September 16, 1997
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304401248
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #199,445 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

This fourth Love Bug movie is a wooden story about Herbie's funny adventures heading toward a race in Brazil. Charles Martin Smith and Steven W. Burns try hard to bring some life into this project, but it just doesn't happen. There is one good laugh in the whole thing, in a scene where Herbie becomes a matador. Otherwise, even the picturesque, south-of-the-border stuff doesn't help. --Tom Keogh

Product Description

Set in exotic locations in Central America, the internationally renowned Herbie, everyone's favorite "love bug," demonstrates his special brand of "car-isma" and high-octane humor in this action-packed, stunt-filled comedy outing. The fun begins when Herbie sets sail for Rio de Janeiro's Grande Premio racing competition with his two new owners. En route, they get sidetracked by a smuggling syndicate, pestered by a pint-sized pickpocket, and bullied by a raging bull. Laughter shifts into high gear in this zany Disney comedy!

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The End Of The Road, December 16, 2002

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This review is from: Herbie: Goes Bananas [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The fourth and final instalment of Walt Disneys Herbie and easily the worst and most forgetable. Though there are some beautiful shots of South America along the way this merley proceeds to make up for the holes in the plot. Whilst Herbie Goes Bananas certainly has a few bright spots, the film as a whole is a rather nondescript affair which sees Herbie the Volkswagen Beatle car, with a mind of its own, rubbing bumpers with a gang of smugglers on their way to Brazil. The stars in the film include Cloris Leachman as Aunt Louise, Charles Martin Smith as Dave Smith, John Vernon as Prindle and Stephan W Burns as Pete Stanchek. Strictly for die-hard fans of the series.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "It's a car, woman, not Lassie!", October 27, 2009

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This review is from: Herbie Goes Bananas (DVD)

The death knell was audible when Herbie took his final drive in the 1980 Disney comedy HERBIE GOES BANANAS - and you may very well start going bananas when you watch it! Although noted comedy stars Harvey Korman and Cloris Leachman manage to redeem their scenes together (and they are a complete joy), the rest of the production lets them down.

Jim Douglas's nephew Pete (Stephen W. Burns) and his co-driver D.J. (Charles Martin Smith) travel south of the border to claim ownership of Herbie, but get hijacked instead by junior con-artist Paco (Joaquin Garay III). The true title of this movie should have been "Herbie Gets Trashed", because he spends most of the film operating as a waterlogged, graffiti-riddled taxi. Cloris Leachman steals many a scene as dotty Aunt Louise, who harbours a yen for the handsome, worldly Captain Blythe (Harvey Korman).

The early 80s weren't the best period for Disney comedies in the first place, with the studio in the process of transitioning most of it's live action projects to the Disney Channel. HERBIE GOES BANANAS earned solid business during it's theatrical run and has a sizable cult following if anything. Strictly for completists.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Herbie's last film fizzles out......, June 13, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Herbie: Goes Bananas [VHS] (VHS Tape)

In this last installment of the Love Bug series Pete Stancheck, the nephew of Jim Douglas, and his friend D.J., make a trip down to Central America to pick up Douglas' VW. The movie's plot basically gets boring after this, as the two travel by boat to Rio to enter a race. Charles Martin Smith makes a humorous cameo, but by the end of the movie, you're half asleep......