What
an insane film! A black Volkswagen Beetle [definitelyNOT
Herbie] is sexually attracted to a young woman named Diana. After she
is menacingly stalked throughout the film, Diana eventually gets raped
by the car. (!) In a bizarre Ménage à Trois, she
has relationships with an unfaithful fiancé who vows to destroy
the Beetle (a knee-jerk reaction to his machismo persona) and she falls
for a gentle horse-trainer named Lima, hopelessly in love with her.
There are also some traditional country songs sprinkled throughout [performed
mostly by co-star Almir Rogerio, a popular South American singer] and
some rather lame 'comedy' from rubberfaced Brazilian clown Zé
Coqueiro.
Today,
this film is virtually impossible to find, mostly due to actress Xuxa
Meneghel's efforts to stop distribution after she became an International
star of children movies, most notably Super Xuxa Contra o Baixo
Astral (Super Xuxa vs the Astral Demon), as well as a continuing
Xuxa TV series [565 Episodes, 1997-2003] called Super Xuxa
no Mundo da Imaginação(Super Xuxa in the World
of Imagination), aired as Planet Xuxa in the United
States. Obviously, this "Love Bug" movie is something she'd
rather forget.
A
Portuguese film, with optional English subtitles, 90 min, fullscreen,
DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT; extras include selected
trailers
