 The fifth installment of "The Love Bug" film series, this film is part remake and part sequel, in that the events of the original 1968 film are repeated while the storyline plots to follow 1980's "Herbie Goes Bananas".The film also marks the first new appearance of Herbie in 15 years, following Herbie's television series "Herbie, the Love Bug", which ran for five episodes.The narrator, (Dean Jones as Jim Douglas), unfolds the story of Herbie the Volkswagen Beetle.