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The Love Bug(Movie, 1997)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 28min | Genres: Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family
The Love BugRating: 2.8/5 (with 5454 votes)
The Love Bug is a 1997 American adventure comedy television film directed by Peyton Reed and written by Ryan Rowe. The fifth installment in the Herbie film series, the film is part remake and part sequel, in that the events of the original 1968 The Love Bug film are repeated while the storyline plots to follow Herbie Goes Bananas (1980). It premiered on ABC in the anthology television series The Wonderful World of Disney on November 30, 1997. The film stars Bruce Campbell and includes a special appearance by Dean Jones, star of the original The Love Bug, tying it to the previous films, while introducing an evil, black Volkswagen Beetle named Horace, the Hate Bug, giving the film a much darker tone than the other films. The film marks the first appearance of Herbie in fifteen years, following the television series Herbie, the Love Bug (1982), which ran for five episodes. The Love Bug was followed by the theatrically released Herbie: Fully Loaded (20... ()
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About The Love Bug

The inimitable VW Beetle is losing all his races and destined for the scrap heap until mechanic Hank takes him over and gives him a new lease of life. Soon, Herbie is winning again, to the fury of his previous owner, who builds a menacing black bug to challenge Herbie to the ultimate race.

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The Love Bug (1997)(Trailer, 4:53)

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 15 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 12/03/1997 (World premiere: 11/29/1997)
Director: Peyton Reed
Producer: Les Mayfield
Director of Photography: Russ T. Alsobrook
Composer: Shirley Walker
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Se meu Fusca Falasse 5"
"The Love Bug 5 - Herbie The Love Bug"
"Herbie 5 - Ein toller Käfer kehrt zurück"
"Ahí va ese bólido de nuevo"
"しんらぶばっぐはーびーぜったいぜつめい！"
"新ラブバッグ ハービー絶体絶命！"
"新ラブバッグ/ハービー絶体絶命!"
"Cupido motorizado"

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Other movies with this title: The Love Bug (US, 1968), The Love Bug (BR, 1980)

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