Mary Poppins

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%. (15/03/2009)

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. (27/02/2009)