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Avg. Critic Score: 47 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
6 OK for kids 6+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    For those newbies, this update, starring peppery Disney re-do queen Lindsay Lohan as wannabe car racer Maggie Peyton, is as serviceable an introduction as any to the notion of a sentient set of wheels. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Joe Leydon

    A pleasingly retro recycling of "The Love Bug." Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    It may be by-the-numbers, but it knows that under the right circumstances those numbers can lead to a fair amount of fun. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    A perfectly silly movie for a silly season that in recent years has forgotten how to be this silly. Directed by Angela Robinson, this latest installment in the movie-television franchise about a tiny car named Herbie with a will of its own and the temperament of a rambunctious 7-year-old knows exactly what it is and what it isn't. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    Herbie: Fully Loaded is, pure and simple, a children's film. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Peter Hartlaub

    It's a kids' movie from a better time, with a few small concessions to modern audiences. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The movie is pretty cornball. Little kids would probably enjoy it, but their older brothers and sisters will be rolling their eyes, and their parents will be using their iPods. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    Though not much of a movie, Loaded probably will bring fleeting satisfaction to audiences who don't know Dean Jones from Spike Jones. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    For anyone old enough to cross the street without holding hands ... the movie's a reconditioned lemon trying hard to hide its flaws. Read full review

  • 20
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    Here, by its cooperation with the Disney factory, NASCAR says it's also warm 'n' cuddly, and that if you love your magic bug, it'll repay you with victory. Why does it allow itself to be co-opted by a story that diminishes the skills, experience and talent it takes to win? Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says OK for kids 6+ Kids may enjoy it; most parents will snooze.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie includes images potentially disturbing for small children during a demolition derby, when a monster truck targets Herbie the car, and slight sexual innuendo concerning Herbie's interest in an apparently female yellow Volkswagen (his antenna goes "erect" at the sight of her, an allusion that will likely go right over the head of the youngest kids). There are many brand-name logos present.
  • Families can talk about Maggie's repeated lies to her father concerning her racing. How could she have achieved her goals without lying? How might her father have been less rigid about rejecting her desire to race? How is his resistance based on the idea that her brother can race, but a girl should not? Families might also talk about the cheating by the champion driver and his punishment (he's designated "crazy" and carted off in an ambulance, even though his belief that the car is "out to get him" is technically correct).
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Girl lies to her father, villain cheats, car squirts liquids on opponents.
What to watch for
  • violence false0 Violence and scariness: Cars crash; a slightly scary demolition derby.
  • sex false0 Sexy stuff: Boy car has a crush on a girl car; girl kisses boyfriend at end.
  • language false0 Language: A character complains about "busting his butt."
  • consumerism false3 Consumerism: NASCAR is all about commercial endorsement logos.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false0 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Not an issue
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