Mary Poppins
Directed by:
Robert StevensonScreenplay:
Bill WalshCinematography:
Edward ColmanCast:
Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Reta Shaw, Karen Dotrice, Elsa Lanchester, Arthur Treacher, Reginald Owen (more)VOD (4)
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Stuffy parents in Victorian London are looking for a nanny, but the children write their own ad which is torn up and thrown into the fire. Miraculously, the paper reassembles and floats up the chimney flue and along comes Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews) on her umbrella/parachute. She brings fun and magic to the children's lives, as well as a guiding hand. A great film for all the family! (Disney / Buena Vista)
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As a child, I was enchanted by this. Today, however, I don't think it's perfect. Pamela Lyndon Travers wrote her books about Mary from 1934 until the incredible year 1988, a full 54 years.
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Mary Poppins was certainly a great film in its time, a high-budget ambitious musical shot with versatile studio support, star-studded, and very solidly directed. However, one cannot overlook a certain shabbiness given by the theme and execution. If I set aside its role in cinematic history, then I have to say that I'm no longer at an age where such a subject appeals to me. It is primarily a story intended for children after all. I also feel that today's children have been raised on different things and this is, after all, too much of an old-fashioned, slow spectacle with naive special effects and a bourgeois atmosphere for them. Today, it's more of a film for nostalgia and fans of film history, although it is very high-quality in many respects. Overall impression: 65%.
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