Das Verrückteste Auto der Welt

Superbug, the Craziest Car in the World
The Maddest Car in the World

West Germany 1975
produced by
Rudolf Zehetgruber, Konstantin W. Nowak for Barbara
directed by Rudolf Zehetgruber
starring Rudolf Zehetgruber (as Robert Mark), Sal Borgese, Evelyne Kraft, Kathrin Orginski, Ulrich Beiger, Ruth Jecklin, Carl Möhner, Walter Giller, Gerd Frickhöffer, Walter Roderer, Walter Feuchtenberg, Peter W. Staub, Marion Winter
written by Rudolf Zehetgruber, music by Gerhard Heinz

Superbug

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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This time around, Jimmy Bondi (Rudolf Zehetgruber) and his supercar Dudu work at a children's home run by nuns. And when they learn that the nuns need a huge amount of money for repairs, Bondi plans participating in a cross-Switzerland rallye - and winning it of course.

Bondi's and Dudu's stiffest competition are the Marchese (Ulrich Beiger), a local aristocrat hell-bent on winning the race at all costs, and resorting to every trick in the book to do so, Regozzani (Sal Borgese), Bondi's friend who is also an ace-racecar driver, and two nuns (Evelyne Kraft, Kathrin Orginski) from the children's home, who drive a Citroen 2CV with two fronts (because they are so bad in driving in reverse, it is claimed).

In the end, almost everyone crashes, including Regozzani, who lets his temper get the better of him, and the two nuns, and it seems it's a race to the finish line between Bondi and the Marchese, but all of a sudden, Dudu discovers his social streak and helps the nuns over the finish line first, while the Marchese gets disqualified for all his evil trickery.

As far as the Superbug films go, this is one of the better entries into the series. The film as such is pretty much a cartoon come true - but not so much cartoon inthe Tex Avery or Chuck Jones sense of the word but rather an episode of Whacky Races. Still, other than earlier parts of the series, the film doesn't relie too much on badly executed slapstick and old jokes and the story is not quite as silly as can be, so it is at points even slightly amusing - and that's not something that's necessarily true for some other Superbug-films.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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