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Cast
- Cloris LeachmanLouise Trends
- Charles Martin SmithDavy Johns
- Stephen W. BurnsPete
- Elyssa DavalosMelissa Drake
- Joaquin Garay IIIPaco
- Harvey KormanCapt. Blythe
- Richard JaeckelShepard
- Alex RoccoQuinn
- John VernonPrindle
- Fritz FeldChief Steward
Recommendations
- 60
Time Out
If you can stomach the lovey bits, the film has a lot of good car stunts, some innuendo for the adults, and the ultimate accolade for the Chaplinesque Herbie - a chance to play opposite a cute Mexican orphan. - 60
Washington Post
In one scene -- a costume ball on his ship -- Korman wears an archaic naval uniform and explains that is is an exact copy of "the uniform worn by Lord Nelson when he defeated the Spanish Armada." That's very funny, but one wonders whether anyone who understands why it is funny could enjoy the rest of the picture. [11 Aug 1980, P.B3] - 60
The New York Times
A cheerful, four-cylinder children's movie, though its car jokes aren't good for much mileage. Herbie the Volkswagen, last seen in Monte Carlo, is now in South America, as the title may or may not indicate. This allows him to get into a bullfight, for the movie's most inspired episode, and to fall into the sea and get rusty, for its saddest. His adventures aren't much more far-flung than this, but fortunately they move fast. [12 Sept 1980, p.C8] - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Strictly for the young ones.
