Not since David Cronenberg's “Crash” has a movie about cars been as sex-obsessed as the allegedly wholesome Disney live-action vehicle Herbie: Fully Loaded, in spite of Lindsay Lohan's PG-13-rated breasts being digitally reduced to a G. Anything set in the world of gearshifts and grinding cylinders can't really avoid it, but something about the ripe Lohan coming of age among aggressive alpha-males seems inappropriate, even before the creepy innuendo slips in. Then there's randy old Herbie, whose cutesy-poo affection for a spanking-new yellow VW bug turns a little too adult when his antenna salutes in attention. The family-friendly joke seems to be "Look, kids, those cars want to fuck!".- Scott Tobias, The Onion AV Club.
Yes, the makers of the film really did digitally reduce Lohan’s breasts, believing them too "raunchy" for a childrens' movie. Now, it's sad enough that some studio exec/censor is hostile enough to sexuality that he/she believes that breasts by their very nature are raunchy- much less in a movie where supposedly cars want to have sex with each other.
But what's even sadder is that Lindsay apparently liked it so much that she saw it fit to reduce them herself, along with the rest of her body, to the point where she now resembles a "blond skeleton," to borrow a Simmons phrase.
Oh well, we'll always have "Mean Girls"...
Posted by Stephen Silver at June 22, 2005 02:15 AM