to dislike Mary Poppins, the sinister cow.

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Worst children's film ever.

Taking the children to see all and sundry, along with her ne'er do well mate with the funny accent.

Look into Julie Andrews eyes and see the axis of evil.

Fly a kite off.

that trailer gave me the creeps and i have seen the film a million time

I have said for many years that in the books she is horrible, she hates kids. In the film they seem to have sweetened her up quite a bit but she is still quite weird but in a more harmless way. I still loved the books as a child though I must have been a strange child

She IS a horrible cow in the books.

And creepy in the film.

That said, I have no problem with the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I wonder what that says about my psyche.

I'm quite jealous you've never seen The Sound of Music Getorf.
Imagine the pleasure you'll have if you ever see it for the first time

I have loved the film my whole life...

But

Last time i watched it i thought, " you are a sarcastic madam! "

But..still love it.

I have never seen It's a Wonderful Life either

DP can't believe it either, is making me watch it this christmas.

Loathe Mary Poppins but am addicted to The Sound of Music for some unfathomable reason. Still can't stand Julie Andrews though . Couldn't get over how the nuns seemed so lovely in SOM when I knew from personal experience at my convent primary school that things were very different indeed in real life!

Mary Poppins doesn't freak me out but the old guy in the bank trying to get the kids money used to scare us.

Although we did snigger at the constant use of the word 'tuppence' as that was/is our word for fanjo.

I just reread the first Mary Poppins book for the first time since I was about ten - they're really odd, and she is, as others have said, an almost psychotically vain supernatural creature who doesn't like children, takes offence at nearly everything that is said to her, and thaws only at extravagant compliments to her looks.

I confess to being practically word-perfect in The Sound of Music lyrics, including the masochistic Maria-and-Captain-Von Trapp romantic duet no one ever remembers:

Perhaps I had a wicked childhood
Perhaps I had a miserable youth
But somewhere in my wicked, miserable past
There must have been a moment of truth.

The real Von Trapps were highly religious, only sang madrigals, had several more children than in the film, and Maria, according to the children, had a violent temper - apparently she was never in love with Captain Von Trapp and only married him in the end because she was fond of the children and because the nuns of her order told her it was God's will.

PS, for any fans of the SoM film, Forever Liesl, the memoir by the actress who played Liesel (I think her name is Charmian Carr) is hilarious. She was 21 and Christopher Plummer kept putting the moves on her and trying to get her drunk, and the child who played Gretel put on so much weight during the shoot that CP refused to carry her during the final shot where they are climbing the mountains to escape, and they had to use a body-double.

But here you are - standing there - loving me!

I used to have the soundtrack LP. It was the record of my childhood.

Mary Poppins is a very creepy character, but the film is still brilliant.

Chim Chimney makes any amount of creepyness better. It has to after the wierd bit at the fair with the horserace. That bit has always freaked me for some reason.

Bedknobs and Broomstick was another strange old film. That really gave me the creeps.

I still can't watch Dumbo (the train! the drunken hallucination!) or the scary Disney Alice in Wonderland.

And don't get me started on Watership Down.

I am DESPERATE to read the mary poppins book now...!

GetOrf, you have successfully outbaffled the Party thread.

Oh god don't liken me to the loon on the party thread, sarah

Does anyone remember the waterbabies. it started off in Victorian times a young lad gets shoved up a chimney. It was a bit grim.
Then it goes all cartoony and he is under water with a seahorse and other things. It had a song that went "hi hi hi hi hiiiicockolurum"... or something.

Oh god yes that was horrible.

Wasn't the story a young boy who was kidnapped and made to be a chimney sweep?

Hated it. It is a book by Charles Kingsley. Never read it, had no desire to after that shitty programme.

Yes. That's the one. Happy childhood memories

There was a horrible man and a mean scary housekeeper I think. And doesn't he almost drown. They wouldn't get away with it nowadays!

Bloody Will O' The Wisp gave me the creeps as well.

Especially Evil Edna.

Gah, that was creepy. Am I right in thinking that had an evil t.v thingy?

Although Worzel Gummidge scared me too. When he turned round at the start, I've creeped myself out now.

"There are no cats in America, and the streets are paved in cheeeeese."