The third Herbie film brings back Dean Jones as Jim Douglas. The film starts out in Paris, where Douglas and his new mechanic have decided they are going to take Herbie and make a comeback. They enter a race that involves driving from Paris to Monte Carlo. Before the race starts however, a pair of bungling burglars steal a huge diamond from a Parisian museum and hide it in Herbie's petrol tank.
Then, during qualifying, Herbie falls in love with the pretty Lancia in the screenshot.
Madcap hilarity ensues. Or at least, I'm sure that's what the Disney execs were hoping for. What actually ensues is plenty of sped up footage of racing (fairly well done though, it's nowhere near as obvious as in The Car - probably because they were driving fairly fast and haven't sped it up massively). In between racing segments are bits like Herbie wooing the Lancia with flowers, lots of gurning by the new mechanic and probably the gayest fist fight ever committed to film. Oh, and the French police inspector is like the bastard offspring of Hercule Poirot and Inspector Clouseau, which is slightly irritating.
Not as good as the second, and that's really saying something - it's pretty ropey in places.
My rating: 5.3 / 10
IMDB rating: 5.2 / 10
Running time: 105 mins
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