 | Studios: | Walt Disney Pictures |
| Release: | June 22nd, 2005 | |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure, Comedy, Kids/Family and Sequel | |
| MPAA Rating: | G for General Audiences |
Maggie Peyton's off to college but what she really wants is to be a race car driver, like her dad, Ray. Dad thinks it's dangerous for her and refuses, besides her brother is already the driver of the Peyton racing team.
Enter Herbie, an old VW who's seen better days and is now spending his days in a junkyard. Ray has taken Maggie to the junkyard to buy her a used car that she can use in college. With extreme determination, Herbie manages to end up being bought by Maggie.
Maggie soon realizes that the car has its own mind. Since this is a Disney movie, Maggie is pleasantly surprised, as opposed to freaked out that her car might be possessed. If Hermione Granger was around, she'd admonish Maggie for using an object with a mind of its own. But Voldemort lives in the Warner Brothers lot, so we go back to Maggie who's allowing her buggy to dictate what she does next ... getting noticed in the racing circuit as Maxx and getting the ire of the current racing champ.
By the end of this movie, Maggie is supposed to have proven that she can be a race car driver, but I don't know if I should put much weight on this development considering that she's driving a very special car who has claim on half the fame she's gonna get in the racing circuit. I consider it a subtle form of cheating.
Now if you are capable of shutting off that logical brain of yours for one and a half hours, you can actually enjoy the movie as the gags are indeed funny.
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