WWTD 165 - The Love Bug (1997): Horace the Hate Bug

Unfortunately, the penultimate episode of the Summer of Love Bug doesn't set us up to go out with a bang as one might have hoped. And we suppose that's to be expected - after all, we're in Disney television movie territory here. But there was always the hope that Bruce Campbell and Herbie would be a winning combination - but all for naught. Sure, Bruce's handsome face is here, but he's given little to no opportunities to show off his charisma - and neither is Herbie for that matter. The 1990's TV movie version of THE LOVE BUG is a drab and depressing affair; featuring a bonkers cast that absolutely fails to deliver, a Herbie that is a mere shadow of his lively and somewhat-homicidal past self, and that rat bastard Jim Douglas showing up acting like he never abandoned Herbie twice in the past. We've rounded the last corner and are in the final stretch, D-Lovers, let's hope the final entry can end things on a relative high.