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Aibu to say the new Mary Poppins film is rubbish!

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Chopbob · 04/01/2019 08:39

...just that really (lighthearated)

I love musicals and I was really excited to watch the new Mary Poppins film yesterday.
To be fair, Emily Blunt was excellent in it but all that did was emphasise how bad everyone else was...
Angela Lansbury was...terrifying....as was Meryl Streep.
All I could think about when watching Ben Whishaw was 'A very English scandal' which kinda ruined the wholesome feel.

Anyone else waste 2 hours of their life watching this film?

OP posts:

HotInWinter · 04/01/2019 17:50

Kids loved it.
I was "meh" about it.

DinoGreen · 04/01/2019 17:50

Saw it on new year’s day and I thought it was ok, but I didn’t love it. I thought Emily Blunt was alright but didn’t think much of the children or Jack the new Bert character. Grown up Michael had none of the charm of David Tomlinson as Mr Banks. Meryl was strange. Angela Lansbury was good though I was confused by her cameo - DH and I had an argument about whether she was in the original or not (I was right - she wasn’t - he was mixing it up with Bedknobs and Broomsticks).

I came away wanting to rewatch the original!

altiara · 04/01/2019 17:56

I fell asleep too

How it is a cameo if Angela L wasn’t in the original? Isn’t she one of the cast!

Whatabloodymessthisis · 04/01/2019 17:59

Loved it!

Emily blunt was too posh though

Whatsnewpussyhat · 04/01/2019 18:00

Blunt's accent is dreadful.

Aragog · 04/01/2019 18:01

A cameo role isn't about a past star of an original cast member being in the film. It's just a well known actor having a small part in a film.

A cameo role or cameo appearance (/ˈkæmioʊ/; often shortened to just cameo) is a brief appearance or voice part of a known person in a work of the performing arts.

CalamityJane10 · 04/01/2019 18:01

I couldn’t get past Mary Poppins doing music hall with a cockney accent. Seemed unnecessary and too far removed from the original.

Inmyownlittlecorner · 04/01/2019 18:12

I though Emily Blunt’s accent was very irritating.
The whole Music Hall bit of it was a bit off & the fact that Mary Poppins didn’t manage to keep the children safe from the cartoon villain annoyed me. That’s one of the main points of her job!!
I thought the Angela Lansbury cameo was lovely, but it seemed like it was written for Julie Andrews!
I thought the Colin Firth character was a bit of a confusing baddie for small children to understand.
I love the original & Julie Andrews & I really wanted to love this one. I’ll probably give it a second watch when it is on the cheap Saturday morning kids showing. I don’t think the DCs (12, 9, 5&6) were too impressed.

SuperSuperSuper · 04/01/2019 18:17

The songs were forgettable. It was too long, boring in places. No humour, not even the kids in the cinema laughed at any point. No idea what Streep was doing. Emily Blunt is good but she isn't strong enough to be a leading lady imo.

Loved the colours and the scenery. Enjoyed the cameos from Angela Lansbury, Dick van Dyke and Karen Dotrice. Emily Mortimer was exactly how I'd imagine Jane to be as a young woman. Colin Firth was super, as were the two lawyers. The backing dancers were great, I really liked the scene with the ladders.

GruciusMalfoy · 04/01/2019 18:19

We enjoyed it, but I agree that Emily Blunt's accent was a bit too cut-glass.

MinisterforCheekyFuckery · 04/01/2019 18:22

The music hall scene didn't work but other than that I really enjoyed it.

Everytimeref · 04/01/2019 18:22

Not a fan of the original Mary Poppins film but really like the stage version so wasn't 100% about going but enjoyed the new film more than I expected.

U2HasTheEdge · 04/01/2019 18:23

I wasn't that impressed and my friend fell asleep.

MemorialBeach · 04/01/2019 18:27

I really enjoyed it, but I hadn't ever seen the original, apart from the odd 5 minutes when channel hopping at various Christmas years ago. I avoided it because I hated Dick Van Dyke's accent.

I did actually watch the original later the same day, and didn't enjoy it at all. The songs were very enjoyable, but otherwise I found it uninteresting and too long. There didn't seem to be much of a plot really? Just that Mr Banks wasn't very interested in his children, but by the end he loved to spend time with them?

ForalltheSaints · 04/01/2019 18:33

I've not seen it, thanks OP for making me feel I have made the right decision.

Alex3101 · 04/01/2019 18:33

We loved it. We went with 7 children and 7 adults and we all thought it was great, the children ranging from 4 to 14 all sat glued to their seats.
I went with some trepidation as although I'm not the biggest fan of the original (I liked bedknobs and broomsticks better) I still really like it and was worried this would not live up to the original.
I was wrong, will it be as timeless as MP is I'm not sure but it bought a tear to my eye at a certain point and I'd happily watch it again if DS asked to go and see it again.

ceecee32 · 04/01/2019 18:35

I thought it was dreadful - my memories of the original were that it was uplifting and cheerful.
This was boring, miserable and the songs were just awful
Waste of a couple of hours

Saracen · 05/01/2019 02:55

I quite liked it. It got off to a rocky start as the plot was so daft: in particular, it was unbelievable that Michael Banks could be quite so incompetent.

But Emily Blunt was good, and so were the child actors, especially the youngest.

Some of the surreal scenes harked back to the book rather than to the previous film. That was a nice touch. (Not that I'm a purist: the "book Mary Poppins" was a nasty self-centred piece of work, though a good deal more interesting than the Julie Andrews version.) The music hall scene was rubbish though. Never in a million years would a self-respecting nanny of the time have behaved that way, not even in a fantasy sequence!

Nancydrawn · 05/01/2019 03:50

I thought it was delightfully old-fashioned. The crowd in my screening actually applauded afterwards, which was baffling but seemed part and parcel of a film that had genuine opening credits. The film missed the Sherman Brothers, to be sure, and the bicycle jumping was dumb as hell, but in general, I found it a welcome relief from current cinema.

Klobluchar · 05/01/2019 03:58

AFAIK, the Angela Lansbury part was written for Julie Andrews, who turned it down.

PollyFlinderz · 05/01/2019 04:09

Some of it was very good whilst other parts were dreadful.

PollyFlinderz · 05/01/2019 04:11

I also found it difficult to watch Michael as the last time I saw him on screen Jeremy Thorpe has a tub of Vaseline I’m his hands.

Mummyoflittledragon · 05/01/2019 04:30

I’ve only seen the trailer and have been put off tbh. I don’t like Emily Blunts accent on it. It comes across as uber clipped and more affected than Julie Andrews when in reality RP has radically changed since the original. Dd loves the original and wants to see it but not enough to go to the cinema so even she seems luke warm. I offered to take her the other day and she refused. She’s 10. I may drag her this weekend. .

I otoh loved Dick van Dyke’s “American cockney” accent. It added a different dimension to his character. He’s not supposed to be practically perfect in every way. I think this is what has most irritated me with EB’s accent. It makes MP flawed. She’s not supposed to be.

SuzieAndBess · 05/01/2019 05:29

We enjoyed, we are also big Lin fans! Mr Dawes coming in to save the day was woeful though. Really ruined the film for me.

NotUmbongoUnchained · 05/01/2019 05:37

Well, the original was shit too so it didn’t have much to go on

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