53 years after Mary Poppins came to the big screen and into the lives of the
Banks family, the Disney Studio has made a remake. The only real deficit that
this film has is that the musical score isn't a patch on the one Sherman Brothers
wrote for the original Mary Poppins.
Emily Blunt has taken over the role of the mysterious and mystical nanny who came to the Banks family during Edwardian England and is now back to them in London in the 20s. Ben Whishaw and Emily Mortimer are the grownup brother and sister. Whishaw is a single father raising three kids and Mortimer helps when he can.
One big difference in this film from the original is there is an identifiable villain in Colin Firth. Whishaw works in the same Fidelity Fiduciary Bank that dad worked in and its rumored dad had a piece of the place, but documentation can't be located. Firth who runs the bank now has a mortgage on the old Banks estate as its prime London real estate he wants it. But he can't have it if Banks is a stockholder.. He's the kind of villain you love to hate.
Dick Van Dyke from the original and Angela Lansbury make some key cameo appearances. Mary Poppins Returns may not have Julie Andrews, but Emily Blunt and the whole cast keep that elfin spirit alive in this film.
It's a pleasant spoonful of sugar.
Emily Blunt has taken over the role of the mysterious and mystical nanny who came to the Banks family during Edwardian England and is now back to them in London in the 20s. Ben Whishaw and Emily Mortimer are the grownup brother and sister. Whishaw is a single father raising three kids and Mortimer helps when he can.
One big difference in this film from the original is there is an identifiable villain in Colin Firth. Whishaw works in the same Fidelity Fiduciary Bank that dad worked in and its rumored dad had a piece of the place, but documentation can't be located. Firth who runs the bank now has a mortgage on the old Banks estate as its prime London real estate he wants it. But he can't have it if Banks is a stockholder.. He's the kind of villain you love to hate.
Dick Van Dyke from the original and Angela Lansbury make some key cameo appearances. Mary Poppins Returns may not have Julie Andrews, but Emily Blunt and the whole cast keep that elfin spirit alive in this film.
It's a pleasant spoonful of sugar.