Mary Poppins is, without a doubt, the finest non-animated film in the Disney canon and a genuine classic. A spoonful of perfection. It's not only my favorite Disney, but my all-time favorite movie.
Odds are good you've seen Mary Poppins, it came out in 1964 and is a pop-culture touchstone. If you haven't seen it, go see it.
Based upon the series of books by P. L. Travers, but mainly on the first book, Mary Poppins is a film we should be very grateful to have. It took Walt 20 years to obtain the rights to Mrs. Travers' fantastic tale and the bold Australian born author was very strict on what could be included the 1964 classic. While Travers would ultimately hate the flick with all it's Sherman Brothers songs and animated sequences, Mary Poppins would still be a critically acclaimed flick to the public eye and after all these years, it's still one of the greatest fantasy films of the last several decades. I read the books and they are worthy of checking out, and if it weren't for Disney's brothers who read them, he probably wouldn't have thought bringing the character to the big screen.
The movie revolves around an unhappy family, who called the Banks and the chaos theory as Mary Poppins, who is the main character, a wonderful nanny is inserted into the Banks family. The children go from "Be seen and not heard" "Be heard and seen". The movie also mixes humans and animation figures which is quite well done. I think this movie is spectacular and everyone should see this movie at least once...
In Edwardian Landon's Cherry Tree, yet another nanny resigns from keeping an eye on Mr. Banks' boisterous children, Jane and Michael. But then, as if by magic, a new governess-the enchanting, Mary Poppins-lands on their doorstep to take control of the situation, as thrilling adventures along with the amazing chimney sweep, Bert, pave the way for a wonderful transformation. Will the charming Miss Poppins turn chaos into order?
The 1910 London scenery looks very magical in this film. You can very well imagine like Mary Poppins popping up in a place like that. The film was filled with great musical numbers, all done by the legendary song-writing team The Sherman Brothers like Oscar winning "Chim Chim Cher-ee", "A Spoonful of Sugar", "Step in Time", "I Love to Laugh" and "Feed the Birds" (Disney's personal favorite as well as my favorite song of the movie). And let's not forget "Supercalifragiliexpiaidocius". Man, that's a long word! Brothers Robert B. And Richard M. Sherman were behind the perfect score. There are lots of classic scenes there, like when they jump into the chalk drawing. You can see them racing with carousel horses. And Dick Van Dyke dancing with animated penguins. Entertaining movie can't get more entertaining than this. Even the animation and effects in this movie are superb, from the umbrella head in the shape of a parrot that talks to Mary, to the animatronic birds that Mary sings to and those were early animatronics developed by I'm sure one of the imaginers of Disney. Such artistry could not have been found in any other movie at the time and all of bends together.
I have enjoyed this movie since I was little and I remember singing the songs, dancing the scenes and even reenacting many of the scenes with my family and friends. It's a timeless classic and one of Walt Disney's greatest achievements, if not Walt's personal magnum opus, if you don't count Mickey Mouse, Disneyland or his first feature length animated film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). My family also has seen this film for years in fact, ever since it came out, with my father being 8 at the time of its release and his parents who often went to movies took him to go see it and I'm sure years from now the film will still be looked at and be one of Disney's all time masterpieces.
A practically perfect 10/10.
Odds are good you've seen Mary Poppins, it came out in 1964 and is a pop-culture touchstone. If you haven't seen it, go see it.
Based upon the series of books by P. L. Travers, but mainly on the first book, Mary Poppins is a film we should be very grateful to have. It took Walt 20 years to obtain the rights to Mrs. Travers' fantastic tale and the bold Australian born author was very strict on what could be included the 1964 classic. While Travers would ultimately hate the flick with all it's Sherman Brothers songs and animated sequences, Mary Poppins would still be a critically acclaimed flick to the public eye and after all these years, it's still one of the greatest fantasy films of the last several decades. I read the books and they are worthy of checking out, and if it weren't for Disney's brothers who read them, he probably wouldn't have thought bringing the character to the big screen.
The movie revolves around an unhappy family, who called the Banks and the chaos theory as Mary Poppins, who is the main character, a wonderful nanny is inserted into the Banks family. The children go from "Be seen and not heard" "Be heard and seen". The movie also mixes humans and animation figures which is quite well done. I think this movie is spectacular and everyone should see this movie at least once...
In Edwardian Landon's Cherry Tree, yet another nanny resigns from keeping an eye on Mr. Banks' boisterous children, Jane and Michael. But then, as if by magic, a new governess-the enchanting, Mary Poppins-lands on their doorstep to take control of the situation, as thrilling adventures along with the amazing chimney sweep, Bert, pave the way for a wonderful transformation. Will the charming Miss Poppins turn chaos into order?
The 1910 London scenery looks very magical in this film. You can very well imagine like Mary Poppins popping up in a place like that. The film was filled with great musical numbers, all done by the legendary song-writing team The Sherman Brothers like Oscar winning "Chim Chim Cher-ee", "A Spoonful of Sugar", "Step in Time", "I Love to Laugh" and "Feed the Birds" (Disney's personal favorite as well as my favorite song of the movie). And let's not forget "Supercalifragiliexpiaidocius". Man, that's a long word! Brothers Robert B. And Richard M. Sherman were behind the perfect score. There are lots of classic scenes there, like when they jump into the chalk drawing. You can see them racing with carousel horses. And Dick Van Dyke dancing with animated penguins. Entertaining movie can't get more entertaining than this. Even the animation and effects in this movie are superb, from the umbrella head in the shape of a parrot that talks to Mary, to the animatronic birds that Mary sings to and those were early animatronics developed by I'm sure one of the imaginers of Disney. Such artistry could not have been found in any other movie at the time and all of bends together.
I have enjoyed this movie since I was little and I remember singing the songs, dancing the scenes and even reenacting many of the scenes with my family and friends. It's a timeless classic and one of Walt Disney's greatest achievements, if not Walt's personal magnum opus, if you don't count Mickey Mouse, Disneyland or his first feature length animated film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). My family also has seen this film for years in fact, ever since it came out, with my father being 8 at the time of its release and his parents who often went to movies took him to go see it and I'm sure years from now the film will still be looked at and be one of Disney's all time masterpieces.
A practically perfect 10/10.
