Mary Poppins (1964)
Genre:
Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Musical (more)
Tagline: It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Plot Outline: A magic nanny comes to work for a cold banker's unhappy family. (more)
User Comments:
I urge people to try it again.
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User Rating:
 
7.6/10 (16,929 votes)
Runtime:
140 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix:
Stereo (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
France:U / Argentina:Atp / Australia:G / Canada:G / Chile:TE / Finland:S / Peru:PT / Spain:T / Sweden:Btl / UK:U / USA:G
Trivia:
A song about Admiral Boom was written for the film. Although the song does not appear in the film, the music can be heard in the score.
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Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: Obvious stand-ins for Jane and Michael when Mary Poppins, Bert and the children step onto a cloud which wafts them back down after exploring the rooftops (just before the "Step in Time" number).
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Quotes:
Bert:
You know, begging you pardon, but the one who my heart goes out for is your father. There he is in that cold, heartless bank day after day, hemmed in by mounds of cold, heartless money. I don't like to see any living thing caged up.
Jane:
Father in a cage?
Bert:
They makes cages in all sizes and shapes, you know. Bank-shaped some of 'em, carpets and all.
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Awards:
Won 5 Oscars.
Another 12 wins
&
12 nominations
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User Comments:
8 out of 9 people found the following comment useful:-
I urge people to try it again., 14 December 1999
Author:
Spleen from Canberra, Australia
`Tart', `not nearly so sentimental as �The Sound of Music', `Disney's
finest achievement' ... I'd read critics' comments like these with
puzzlement. Had they seen the same film I had?
Of course they had: it's just that someone had got it wrong; and as it
turned out, it was me. I still think that anyone who calls `Mary Poppins'
Disney's finest is being silly - Disney's finest hour was clearly the one
that saw `Pinocchio', `Fantasia', `Dumbo' and `Bambi' - but what we have
here is a fine, clever film, NOT overly sweet.
What won me over was the ending. David Tomlinson changes from a mechanical
banker to a human being with surprising fluency. It's not any one scene:
it's the entire extended sequence, from the run on the bank to the end
credits. And it's not just Tomlinson's acting, either, but the long,
lingering shots of him standing and walking in darkness, and a use of music
that's far more sophisticated than I'd first supposed it to be, the general
intelligence of the script. The last lines given to Mary Poppins I'd missed
the point of the first time round. She's a riddle throughout the film which
the film's conclusion partially, but only partially, unravels.
Considered as a musical `Mary Poppins' lacks something. WHAT it lacks is
revealed when we hear the Jane and Michael tramping around the house singing
`Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' (a great song, by the way) - and they
GET THE TUNE WRONG. They get it wrong in exactly the irritating way that
children WOULD get it wrong. This may be an inspired touch of realism, but
it surely violates the ethos of musicals, as do the deeply pedestrian songs
`Stay Awake', `Sister Suffragette' and `A Spoonful of Sugar'. This was the
side of `Mary Poppins' I'd remembered. I'd forgotten the haunting quality
of `Feed the Birds' and `Let's Go Fly a Kite', and the punch of the score as
a whole.
So anyway, I'm now a convert. I can't find anything to seriously object to
except Dick Van Dyke's ludicrous accent, which makes him sound almost, but
not quite, like Bugs Bunny.
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