Herbie: Fully Loaded

Lindsay "Hottest thing on Earth" Lohan's last movie before she turned into drugs (ok, maybe not, but she's really skinny and not hot at all) is Herbie: Fully Loaded, a follow up to 1968's The Love Bug and its 3 sequels. Herbie is a classic for me, and when I saw the 'fully loaded' in the title, I pictured a pimped out Volkswagen bug and it made me scream. Luckily, my beloved Number 53 is not pimped out at all, and the movie ends up actually being good.

The beginning is great, honoring Herbie with newspapers' headlines teaching the kids of today about his past, and even showing scenes from the previous movies, excellent. Then they show us the fall of Herbie, how he started to lose and became a joke, and so he was retired.

Lindsay then comes into the movie as Maggie Peyton, who just graduated from college and is going back home for the summer waiting for the fall when she'll move to New York. She used to street race, but an accident (which they really don't bother to explain) made her stop. Her father Ray Sr. (Michael Keaton in full redneck mode) is the owner of the Peyton Racing team who compete in Nascar and Maggie's brother Ray Jr. (Breckin Meyer) is the actual racer of the team at the moment.
Long story short, Maggie gets Herbie as graduation present and after fixing him with her best friend/love interest Kevin (Justin Long, who loves to get physically hit in all the movies he does), and thanks to Ray Jr. getting his leg hurt just before the big race, she ends up driving Herbie in a Nascar race against Trip Murphy (Matt Dillon), the current Nascar champion seeking revenge after Maggie and Herbie beat him in a street race a few days before.

All in all, the movie is good, with Lohan looking hot, Herbie looking as great as always, and the movie keeping the magic of the classics, at least until the final Nascar race which is too over the top and the use of CGI really shows. But hey, at least Lohan looks hot, and that's reason enough for me to like this Herbie: Fully Loaded or not.