Mary Poppins

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Poll Results

OptionVotes
Feed The Birds 5
Chim Chim Cher-ee 4
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 3
Sister Suffragette 2
Step In Time 2
Let's Go Fly A Kite2
A British Bank 1
A Spoonful Of Sugar 1
Stay Awake 1
Jolly Holiday 0
Pavement Artist 0
I Love To Laugh 0
The Perfect Nanny 0
The Life I Lead 0
A Man Has Dreams 0


remy bean, Sunday, 17 February 2008 04:13 (seventeen years ago)

helps the medicine go down

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 17 February 2008 04:14 (seventeen years ago)

been usin that advice all my life

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 17 February 2008 04:14 (seventeen years ago)

This is like Sophie's Choice for me, but I'm split between childhood pick Chim Chim Cher-ee and current favorite Feed the Birds, which I will admit to making me a little watery-eyed.

remy bean, Sunday, 17 February 2008 04:15 (seventeen years ago)

A British bank is run with precision
A British home requires nothing less!
Tradition, discipline, and rules must be the tools
Without them - disorder! Chaos!
Moral disintegration!
In short, we have a ghastly mess!

remy bean, Sunday, 17 February 2008 04:16 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.stpaulrealestateblog.com/st_paul_real_estate/images/2007/03/17/david_tomlinson.jpg

remy bean, Sunday, 17 February 2008 04:17 (seventeen years ago)

feed the birds loses for the time it got 'tuppence' stuck in my head for 72 hours.

Cosmo Vitelli, Sunday, 17 February 2008 04:57 (seventeen years ago)

"Step In Time," because first crazy dancing, then levitation, then they're fired upon with LSD-poppers, then they all slide down the chimney and then they go nuts in the house and dodge frying-pan wielding housemaids who scream and then all the chimneysweeps scream back at them in call-response form. Then Glynis Johns arrives and makes them all vote for women and it's suddenly it's one big sooty lobby. Good luck, guv'nuh.

"Feed the Birds" and "Chim Chim Cher-ee" are sort of the same song, and it's a beautiful one.

Eric H., Sunday, 17 February 2008 06:16 (seventeen years ago)

i like the scene where jerry van dike is the shoe shine boy

burt_stanton, Sunday, 17 February 2008 06:21 (seventeen years ago)

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious duh

Surmounter, Sunday, 17 February 2008 16:01 (seventeen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic

latebloomer, Sunday, 17 February 2008 16:07 (seventeen years ago)

This is a tough one.

Rock Hardy, Sunday, 17 February 2008 16:08 (seventeen years ago)

this is, hands down, the best live-action disney film ever made

remy bean, Sunday, 17 February 2008 16:21 (seventeen years ago)

I was singing "The Perfect Nanny" for Mr. Jaq the other day, to explain how I still remembered the names of the children. It's a toss-up between "Stay Awake" and "Feed the Birds" though.

Jaq, Sunday, 17 February 2008 16:37 (seventeen years ago)

jane - and - mich - ael - banks - !

remy bean, Sunday, 17 February 2008 20:54 (seventeen years ago)

In 1983, the story was adapted by the Soviet Union's Mosfilm studios into the Russian-language TV feature film Мэри Поппинс, до свиданья (Mary Poppins, Goodbye), starring Natalya Andrejchenko (acting) and Tatyana Voronina (singing)

remy bean, Monday, 18 February 2008 17:18 (seventeen years ago)

The husband and wife songwriting team that penned many of these songs were later in an acid rock band from Houston called Fever Tree. Their "s/t" album is excellent.

Nate Carson, Monday, 18 February 2008 17:31 (seventeen years ago)

On a separate note, there is a scene in the movie in which a very strange painting is show above the fireplace. Can anyone identify this painting for me?

Nate Carson, Monday, 18 February 2008 17:31 (seventeen years ago)

This movie is cursed:

Michael is dead. Jane was in 39 Steps and her career died soon after, people just remember that her sister was "Betty" in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em.

Speaking of child stars, Julie Dawn Cole (Veruca Salt) was on GMTV as a supposed "nutritionist" the other day. You charlatan Julie, I have videographic proof that all you want is a bean-feast, and nothing less.

JTS, Monday, 18 February 2008 20:40 (seventeen years ago)

A long time ago on my blog I considered the notion of Fight Club being an inferior remake of Mary Poppins (because of course she's really come to save George Banks, not necessarily to mind his kids). And at the end, instead of blowing up a skyscraper, he flies a kite; is this the drowning reverie of the Banks who's just been humiliated and fired from his job and has opted to jump from Southwark Bridge, or simply an awkward transition to a subtext of life being a thing of simple pleasures to be grasped and enjoyed - in Edwardian time, just a few years before WWI would blow that world apart, or in 1964, as a last bulwark of Disney defence against a sixties culture which they couldn't control?

The curse - Julie Andrews did Sound Of Music but nil of note thereafter (except Victor, Victoria) and now I gather has a throat condition which prevents her from singing; Dick Van Dyke has done OK but not spectacularly well, ending up as prime BBC1 mid-afternoon filler as the star of the fifteen-year-old and counting Diagnosis: Murder; and did even David Tomlinson do much non-Disney stuff of note thereafter (The Fiendish Plot Of Fu Manchu does not count)?

For me, a sentimental toss-up between "Stay Awake" and "Feed The Birds," and I'll go for the latter partly because of Garth Hudson's brilliant deconstruction of the song on Hal Willner's Stay Awake anthology.

Mary Poppins was the first film I ever saw - my parents took me to see it at the George Cinema in Bellshill, Xmas '65, and "Let's Go Fly A Kite" is apparently the first song I ever sung (and a tape exists of my not yet two-year-old self singing it).

Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 08:35 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Thursday, 28 February 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

I Love to Laugh

remy bean, Thursday, 28 February 2008 00:46 (seventeen years ago)

just saying

remy bean, Thursday, 28 February 2008 00:46 (seventeen years ago)

Has anyone seen this on Bway? I might indulge someone.

gabbneb, Thursday, 28 February 2008 00:50 (seventeen years ago)

I still want to do an industrial cover of feed the birds in my nick cave voice

El Tomboto, Thursday, 28 February 2008 01:08 (seventeen years ago)

but obv the one true answer has to be step in time

El Tomboto, Thursday, 28 February 2008 01:13 (seventeen years ago)

^^^this

never acid again, Thursday, 28 February 2008 01:18 (seventeen years ago)

Let's Go Fly A Kite

remy bean, Thursday, 28 February 2008 01:31 (seventeen years ago)

feed the birds easy

chaki, Thursday, 28 February 2008 01:32 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILX System, Friday, 29 February 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

oh fthhbbpt

El Tomboto, Friday, 29 February 2008 00:14 (seventeen years ago)

I have to choreograph tap dances to a bunch of this stuff in the next few months. My pick is "Jolly Holiday" because dancing penguins > no dancing penguins.

The Reverend, Friday, 29 February 2008 01:06 (seventeen years ago)

will you dedicate jolly holiday to burt_stanton?

tehresa, Friday, 29 February 2008 06:07 (seventeen years ago)

uh no, stanton isn't worth any dedications

The Reverend, Friday, 29 February 2008 08:44 (seventeen years ago)

Who voted for that god-awful suffragette song? It's the only bad apple, imo.

The Wayward Johnny B, Friday, 29 February 2008 08:58 (seventeen years ago)

"I Love To Laugh" is enough to make one understand how and why Nazi Germany started.

Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 29 February 2008 09:54 (seventeen years ago)

I should've voted for The Life I Lead, my dad's favorite song from his favorite movie!

kate78, Friday, 29 February 2008 16:30 (seventeen years ago)

I bet I haven't seen the whole thing -- or much of it, really -- since I was ten. But I'd maybe have gone with "Supercali" for the song, "I Love to Laugh" for the vocal.

Dr Morbius, Friday, 29 February 2008 16:42 (seventeen years ago)

Fitting that Ed Wynn should have sung "I Love To Laugh" since that whole scene plays like Bizzaro World Diary Of Anne Frank.

Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 3 March 2008 09:09 (seventeen years ago)

Dingbod on the motherhugging money.

Noodle Vague, Monday, 3 March 2008 09:22 (seventeen years ago)

I was too scared to let Santa come for Christmas so Mary Poppins had to come instead. I have a kite tattoed on my wrist. I like Mary Poppins.

bingolola, Monday, 3 March 2008 10:35 (seventeen years ago)

nine months pass...

I hate that stupid kid. Just let the bankers invest your damn money, they make a good point.

burt_stanton, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 03:07 (sixteen years ago)

This is showing at Lincoln Center as part of a series of David Fincher films, plus some he picked. You can see it on a twinbill with Se7en.

http://filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/fincher/program.html

Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 16:41 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

this is so about "Feed the Birds"

Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 14:57 (sixteen years ago)

as Walt D and the songwriters believed.

Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 15:01 (sixteen years ago)

Who voted for that god-awful suffragette song? It's the only bad apple, imo.

Lyrics are hilarious. Plus it's got Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley and Elsa Lanchester.

Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 15:42 (sixteen years ago)

My wife often cites Sister Suffragette as her favorite from the movie.

We visited the Magic Kingdom last year and there was actually a group of "Suffragettes" there, dressed as the characters from that scene going around and singing that song. It was pretty awesome.

Moodles, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 15:46 (sixteen years ago)

Hermione Baddeley sure got some wacky maid gigs.

I didn't really remember either of the bank scenes from childhood; loved hearing that Van Dyke wanted to test his makeup to see that he wouldn't be recognized by the audience as the bank geezer... The very first long shot of his entrance I thought "Hey, it's Dick."

If only Father didn't get his job back at the end it'd clearly be Disney's most Marxist musical. (Maybe it still is.)

Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 15:48 (sixteen years ago)

this was worth it for the little girl who came up to me at intermission to ask if it was over (mary poppins had flown away) and i said no it's just intermission and she spun around in shocked joy and hollered MOM IT'S JUST INTERMISSION

playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 10 October 2015 19:37 (ten years ago)

<3

mookieproof, Saturday, 10 October 2015 19:53 (ten years ago)

omg <3

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 October 2015 20:11 (ten years ago)

lol srsly it does make me happy. there were more kids tonight. it's in the movie theater where i work (constructed 1925) so i'm projecting all this stuff on the screen behind the stage and it interacts w set pieces to form scenery and interacts w stage effects for low-budget/low-risk Magic, like e.g. mary will pass behind an onstage object and emerge on the other side as a projected image of herself we shot in front of a greenscreen and fly away into the rafters of the theater and the kids GASP. or dancing sweeps will close ranks to do the same to bert, whose projection will dance+climb around a projection of the chimneyscape from the movie (very blade runner btw) while live bert ducks offstage and hustles up a ladder to emerge in the actual rafters at the moment his projection jumps into them. (this part is so motherfucking stressful.) everyone cheers. (i did not do all this stuff btw i just helped at the shoots+rehearsals and am executing it live.) it's a small and extremely isolated town and the kids don't really expect to see these things, and by the time the family's flying a kite from the roof while mary poppins exits via the movie screen there's not a dry eye under 12, and i think i had been depressed for a long time.

playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 11 October 2015 10:16 (ten years ago)

nice

the ceremonial hat-punching from the film popped into my head the other day and I laughed out loud

(emphasis mine) (wins), Sunday, 11 October 2015 10:18 (ten years ago)

wikipedia's "famous examples of cashiering in film": the life of emile zola, mary poppins

playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 11 October 2015 10:21 (ten years ago)

penultima

playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 25 October 2015 03:57 (ten years ago)

te show: sold out but people are lined up an hour-forty-five in advance, down the block past the tourist adventure tour hq and the place with the sign that says BEWARE OF ART. sick of this bourgeois agitprop tho obv

playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 25 October 2015 04:11 (ten years ago)

two years pass...

All in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3jsfXDZLIY

Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 September 2018 15:16 (seven years ago)

Do hope Dick Van Dyke has a more convincing accent.
Same with the cockneys which I assume are obligatory.

Is the original film where the Birthday party got the idea of 'Dancing like a chimneysweep'?

Stevolende, Monday, 17 September 2018 15:34 (seven years ago)

Man, do I hate the look of digital effects. haaaaaate.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 14:14 (seven years ago)

Or are those just bad FX for a contemporary studio film?

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 14:21 (seven years ago)

blech

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 15:59 (seven years ago)

three months pass...

extremely meh reception... close to zero 'spontaneity,' it seems

https://www.metacritic.com/movie/mary-poppins-returns

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:38 (six years ago)

i enjoyed how old fashioned this was. the only nods to contemporary culture were some X-games bicycle stunts and Miranda's rapping in one scene. mostly I wondered if kids would be bored by it but to a child they were dancing and singing out of the theater.

Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 28 December 2018 07:08 (six years ago)

It was kind of The Force Awakens of the Poppins-verse.

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 28 December 2018 07:09 (six years ago)

more or less. it was on the whole enjoyable and good natured.

Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 28 December 2018 07:11 (six years ago)

i liked it quite a bit honestly, it felt very earnest and gentle in the way that disney live-action films used to be. the songs were not that good mostly but the original score is hard to compete with. the hand-drawn animation was a nice treat. if there had to be another mary poppins movie i'm glad this is the route they took -- i can easily imagine some horrible prequel where you learn mary's origin story or some similar nonsense.

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 28 December 2018 07:34 (six years ago)

Lin-Manuel Miranda's transition to the big screen is pretty awkward. He's a bit of a charisma vortex up close.

I also found it odd that Mary Poppins was mostly absent in the final act. Emily Blunt did a really good job though, when she was actually on screen.

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 28 December 2018 07:48 (six years ago)

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Andrew Farrell, Friday, 28 December 2018 11:09 (six years ago)

The comments are not short in pointing out that this is the wrong way around.

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 28 December 2018 11:09 (six years ago)

I also found it odd that Mary Poppins was mostly absent in the final act.

That's true in the original too - there's a *lot* of gloomy David Tomlinson in the last hour (obvs this is great tho)

Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 28 December 2018 11:28 (six years ago)

Was dragged to see this yesterday expecting the worse and was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it.

Darin, Friday, 28 December 2018 16:13 (six years ago)

did Van Dyke's dialect coach improve his accent?

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 December 2018 16:57 (six years ago)

Film Comment raves: https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/deep-focus-mary-poppins-returns/

love craptually (Eric H.), Friday, 28 December 2018 17:02 (six years ago)

three weeks pass...

Odd that they would anagaram Dick Van Dyke at the end. Was it supposed to be some kind of secret that that was him, thought it a bit obvious.

Accents aren't great and the songs don't seem that memorable.

BUt does have some good qualities. Quite touching in places.
Is this likely to trigger any more sequels?

Stevolende, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 16:58 (six years ago)

Dick Van Dyke anagram iirc is a callback to the original movie, they did the same thing bc he played two characters

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:18 (six years ago)

I didn’t like Mary Poppins Returns very much at all

It looked good & the costuming was great & i like looking at Emily Blunt & Lin from an aesthetic standpoint ... but it mostly felt like a photocopy-of-a-photocopy of the original. Or a failed pastiche. idk

I thought the songs were clunky & not memorable.
I hated the Royal Doulton “adventure”.
I hated the Meryl Streep sidestory.
At some point I remember thinking “this must be what it feels like when someone who hates musicals watches a musical “ because every time a song started up i became more miserable & it seemed like it would never end.

Emily Blunt’s interpretation of Mary had barely any trace of Andrews’ warmth & kindness, i found Blunt’s Mary just straight up rude & kinda mean at times. all snappy repartee & “spit spot!” which really bummed me out.

Just a big old nope, basically. I even went back & watched the original in case my nostalgia was causing too much bias but the original is still unfuckwithable.

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:44 (six years ago)

Emily Blunt’s interpretation of Mary had barely any trace of Andrews’ warmth & kindness, i found Blunt’s Mary just straight up rude & kinda mean at times.

It’s possible this was deliberate in order to be closer to the tough-love attitude of the books

(though it’s also v likely most of the writers on this never read the books)

sans lep (sic), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:02 (six years ago)

it's weird that "feed the birds" won this poll

na (NA), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:06 (six years ago)

Why?

Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:07 (six years ago)

also i would theorize some "the life i lead"/"a british bank"/"a man has dreams" vote-splitting, considering they're the same song, but only one vote between them

na (NA), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:10 (six years ago)

i guess mainly because it's never really stuck out to me personally, but also because it's not one of the most famous songs from the movie as far as i know

na (NA), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:12 (six years ago)

Walt Disney's favourite song!

Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:14 (six years ago)

walt disney had some bad opinions

na (NA), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:15 (six years ago)

Not saying it's any recommendation.

Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:16 (six years ago)

it is a very nice song. honestly i think it's the repetition of "tuppence" in the lyrics that turns me off. but it's got a great melody.

"a perfect nanny" is probably the one that jumps into my head the most frequently. not the best song but it's fun to sing, as is "sister suffragette"

na (NA), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:18 (six years ago)

after Chim Chim Cher-ee and Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Feed the Birds is the first song that i think of when i think about this movie. i can't remember how a number of these go

( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:19 (six years ago)

oh yeah spoonful of sugar is up there too

( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:20 (six years ago)

"Let's Go Fly a Kite" too.

Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:21 (six years ago)

"Feed the Birds" is obv the emotional thesis statement of the film

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:23 (six years ago)

also it got 5/21 votes

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:24 (six years ago)

Is the attempted recreation of Step iN line supposed to be in a subterranean vault? Seems to be accessed through the sewers.
& was the term leerie actual common parlance or just something taht turned up in Scottish poems.

Does seem rather heavily to be trying to repeat or recreate/reformat ideas that worked in the original film rather heavily.

Somehow don't think that if John Coltrane were around he'd be running to cover anything from the current film. Kamasi Washington making beelines?

Also not sure about the economic law I think may be serving as a significant point in this. If one invests tuppence in 1910 is it feasible that one will have thousands in 1930 whatever. I don't think this film is very realistic. bah humbug.

But is it popular with the ki8ddies?

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Stevolende, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 14:22 (six years ago)

I don't see LMM's acting career happening. It's a lot of camera mugging, playing off his celebrity status.

I looked up his roles and before Hamilton he was the annoying roommate in the awful rehab episode of "House".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aArqS8RHWT0

adam the (abanana), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 14:56 (six years ago)

Also not sure about the economic law I think may be serving as a significant point in this. If one invests tuppence in 1910 is it feasible that one will have thousands in 1930 whatever.

IMDB has refuted this particular plot item. See also Superman 3's "rounding" which would probably net the programmer about £30 in any large-ish wages/salary system.

Mark G, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 14:59 (six years ago)

maybe dvd's character was just being cutesy as a polite and kid-friendly cover story for simply bailing them out.

thought this movie was pleasant. nicely old-fashioned, yes. it's too long and episodic and the songs aren't good enough to be classics but, bar CGI, it feels like the forgotten-but-nice mary poppins sequel disney might have made in the "witch mountain" era, say. the porcelain world with 2D characters was a total delight even if the big cabaret number seemed like a weird digression.

|Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 15:06 (six years ago)

Struck me at the time that that cabaret number A Cover Is Not The Book might make more sense to directly illustrate a planned scene where it might be a bit more literal. Could be overthinking things but a few of the songs sounded like they might have been reseated elsewhere ina plot as it developed.

Or is there an unstated theme taht kids should read more that I missed.

There were definitely a few points where i thought is there something else that that has been repositioned from, that would make it make more sense. But Shouldn't really be looking for plotholes in a film like this.

Stevolende, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 15:31 (six years ago)

I don't see LMM's acting career happening. It's a lot of camera mugging, playing off his celebrity status

non-Hamilton devotees, ie 99% of America, don't know him

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 January 2019 22:01 (six years ago)

Never A Wrong Time To Share LMM's Cape Rapping On The Electric Company Reboot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hTWuN0WCu4

Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 January 2019 23:32 (six years ago)

two months pass...

the father in this movie is an irredeemable, accidentally rich dingus that is impossible to root for. otherwise, I find it enjoyable.

Fictitious Business Name: (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 12 April 2019 18:27 (six years ago)


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