“Mary Poppins Returns” – A Spoon full of sugar isn’t going to help [MOVIE REVIEW]
Emily Blunt as Mary Poppins in “Mary Poppins Returns” “Mary Poppins Returns” hits all the notes, notes that were all hit before. Mary Poppins may be practically perfect in every way (especially as played by Emily Blunt) but the film is practically dreadful in every way. With a story written by a committee of David Magee, Rob Marshall, and John DeLuca, with a script by Magee, “Mary Poppins Returns” is a cookie cutter version of the original “Mary Poppins” that has taken all the primary elements, copied them and plopped them into a flat, emotionless panorama of color and animation. The backbone of the story is quite promising. Michael Banks, now grown up with three children of his own, is recently widowed and in danger of losing his house to, you guessed it, Dawes Bank, where his father used to work, now run by William Weatherall Wilkins, the nephew of Dawes, Jr. Michael’s sister Jane, a crusader for union causes, is horrified to learn that he had taken out a loan from the bank and neglected to pay the last three premiums. Unless they can come up with the money for the entire loan in the next three days, the land grabbing Wilkins will foreclose. Michael’s father owned shares in the…
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