Though "Herbie: Fully Loaded" relies heavily on computer-graphics wizardry, director Angela Robinson has tersely denied Web-fueled rumors that Lohan received a digital bust-reduction to keep from offending family audiences. Ray doesn't want her to race - not because she's a girl or because of her previous crash - but because Maggie is the spitting image of his departed wife, and he can't bear to lose her twice. Keaton conjures up the only emotionally resonant scene in the film when he confronts Maggie about her secret races with Herbie.
The live actors seem to take their cues from the car, with big, bright overacting circa Disney family fare from the 1960s. Previous Herbies have always been moody, even manic, but Lohan's vehicle could use some Prozac in the gas tank. The original Love Bug movies weren't exactly "Citizen Kane" on wheels, but they had personality - not to mention the excellent Keenan Wynn as the bullhorn-voiced antagonist in "Herbie Rides Again." Greasy racing champion Trip Murphy (Matt Dillon, enjoying himself) provides the slapstick villain who eats Lohan's dust in what essentially is a 95-minute commercial for NASCAR and its various sponsors, with a throwaway lesson about "the value of honesty." In Maggie, Herbie finds a new purpose and helps shape her into the driver she's destined to be, even if he has to kidnap her to do it.
After Ray salvages Herbie as a graduation present for Maggie, the rusty little auto initially suffers from a bad case of low self-esteem and self-pity. After a driving mishap, Ray forbids Maggie from racing, leaving the family legacy to his crash-prone son (Breckin Meyer).
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