To say i never liked Mary Poppins

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I found her annoying and smug, I hated the chiminiy sweep and his trans Atlantic mockney accent. I just never liked the film (loved sound of music though!). I have just watched trailers for Mary Poppins returns and immediately found new Poppins annoying and smug in the seconds I saw of her so she is spot on! I feel like I should love the film as it is a classic etc. but I never have. It had all the ingredients of other children's films of the same era that I did love, singing and Julie Andrews (sound of music), magic and fantasy (Charlie and the chocolate factory the original not the Depp travesty), children and sentimentality (Oliver!) etc. but it just left me cold.

What classic films do you lot not "get"?

I love Mary Poppins but haven't really been able to get into the Sound of Music.

I’ve never seen the original film.

I never liked Mary Poppins but I loved Bedknobs and Broomsticks. There, I said it!

But she's practically perfect in every way!

I loved the actual film but never understood how everyone in the film loved Mary Poppins as I always found her sharp and quite cold.

I much preferred Bedknobs and Broomsticks when young although I can't remember much about it now!

The original book portrays her better, I think.

I agree she's not a likeable character. Or at least not to me as a child.

You must be a young un Madison. Mary Poppins was on TV every Christmas in my childhood without fail (late 70s-80s). Back when we had a handful of channels to choose from and no VCR.

I recommend the stage musical if you get the chance. Obviously it's the 'same' but it's also 'different'. Less saccharine than the film, more bitter-sweet.

I did and do love the Sound of Music.

I’ve never seen it (that I can remember!) I did love Bedknobs and Broomsticks though and my absolute favourite is the Sound of Music

Even the author of the books, PL Travers, didn't like what Disney did to her Mary Poppins story to make it a film!

I like bedknobs too and chitty chitty bang bang!

Not so much aimed at kids but I absolutely loved tge Half a Sixpence fjlm and watched it whenever it was on.

I don’t think Mary is supposed to be likeable! She’s actually this strange, magical person that seems to have a hypnotic effect on everyone. In the books she is quite prickly.

I found Chitty a bit freaky iirc!

Yes she is not appealing or approachable very authoritarian - I would not be surprised if she has bondage underwear under her Edwardian attire and a riding crop in her brolly!

Oliver! is a great film but Oliver Reed plays too good a villain and in my experience scares little children!

I'm with you on this OP. Also not a fan of Chitty - and it's just sooo long!

The books are much better than the film

Bedknobs and Broomsticks used lots of animated scenes cut from Mary Poppins

YANBU. So perfectly smug.

I never liked Mary Poppins! I agree, she wasn't likeable! I also never liked chitty chitty bang bang
And agreed - I DID like bedknobs and broomsticks!!

I’m a nanny and the amount of families that specify they want ‘a Mary Poppins’ is mad. What does it even mean

I didn’t like Matilda because they made it American. Ditto Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when they did it with JD.

I've never seen Mary Poppins. I know what it is about and have seen bits of it on TV. Not my sort of thing though Julie Andrews has a gorgeous voice.