Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Story
PLOT SUMMARYIt is the Vulgarian Grand Prix. Several cars are in the competition to win, but our heroine comes in first! Chitty is unbeatable! Moving onto the British Grand Prix, Chitty crashes and we meet her in a scrap-yard owned by a man called Coggins and loved by two children by the names of Jeremy and Jemima Potts.
Coggins tells the children that he is going to have to sell Chitty, but they make him promise to keep her for a couple of days to see if their father can raise the 40 shillings needed to spring Chitty from her prison.
But wait! Some other people are interested in getting their hands on Chitty. Spies from the country of Vulgaria are out to get hold of her too...
The children meet a woman at the garage who goes by the name of Truly Scrumptious. She gives them a lift back to their windmill and meets their father, Caractacus - an eccentric inventor, whose inventions have a habit of going wrong. Through a disagreement, Truly leaves after being insulted by Caractacus and the family sit down, with Grandpa, for a meal before bed-time. Meanwhile, the spies are closing in...
Next morning and realising he has actually invented something worthwhile, Caractacus and the children head off to the sweet factory to try and impress the owner with his new found sweet - Toot sweets. Sweets that toot, so to speak. The factory is owned by Lord Scrumptious, Truly's father, and she encourages Caractacus to sell his idea to her father. Unfortunately, the toot sweets emit a whistle that attracts every dog in the area to the factory and Caractacus is out on his ear.
Having promised his children to try and find the money needed to buy Chitty, Caractacus heads off to the funfair with a hair-cutting invention to try and raise the necessary funds. It goes wrong and in hiding from one highly irritated customer Caractacus finds himself in a dance troupe. He is spotted as the dodgy hair-cutting device and manages to sell it to an interested party thereby raising the funds to buy Chitty.
Having worked on Chitty for a week, she is unveiled and named Chitty Chitty Bang Bang through the various noises that she makes. Caractacus, the children and Truly embark on a picnic to the sea-side where they are attacked by the Vulgarians and have to escape. Chitty unveils some pretty darn good tactics for getting away from these situations and all is well until they get back home and find that Grandpa has been kidnapped...
The action moves to Vulgaria and in particular to the Castle of the Baronm Bomburst. Preparations are underway for his Birthday celebration with his wife, the Baroness, firmly in charge. Grandpa Potts is put to work designing another car - he is misidentified as the Inventor Potts.
There are no children allowed in Vulgaria as The Baroness doesn't like them. A Childcatcher is employed to catch all the children and lock them in the dungeons of the castle so they don't make a nuisance of themselves.
Meanwhile, Chitty, Caractacus and company have arrived in Vulgaria and are looked after by the Toymaker. Caractacus and Truly embark on a mission to save Grandpa only to have Chitty captured by the Baron and the children found by the childcatcher.
Caractacus and Truly now have many more people to save and, through teamwork with the imprisoned children and the toymaker, hatch a plan that might just work...
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