Implausible animal farces, strange Christmas movies, far more Herbie sequels than we remembered, and something called Fuzzbucket
Photo: Courtesy of Disney+/Walt Disney Productions Herbie, the sentient VW first introduced in 1968’s The Love Bug, is in love. In his third movie, 1977’s Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, he’s fallen for a sleek Lancia racer, having made his intentions known with some loud, hyperactive sounds of vehicular horniness. But while his kindly chief driver, played by actor Dean Jones, supports this automotive union, his irritable partner, played by Don Knotts, does not.
Almost half a year later, I’m still miffed by these titles. The only thing that has changed is that, well, a global pandemic has hit, and I, like many of you, finally have time to wade through Disney+ and answer for myself: Who is Sammy, the Way-Out Seal? These films were of a particular strain of live-action Disney: comedies made during the ’60s and ’70s, during the era of civil rights, counterculture and sexual revolution, the Vietnam War, Watergate, and the death of Walt Disney himself. But you’d never have any sense of such tumult watching them. Comedies like The Ugly Dachshund — about a Great Dane who thinks he’s a wiener dog — contain no social commentary or parallels to real life.
A chaotic scene from The Ugly Dachshund. Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection Walt was less hands-on with the live-action movies than he was with the animated features . But Walt handpicked Jones for a role in That Darn Cat! after catching sight of him on the short-lived military comedy Ensign O’Toole, which came on right before Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color.
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