Mary Poppins Returns reviewed by Mark Kermode
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Mark Kermode reviews Mary Poppins Returns. Many years after first visiting the family, Mary Poppins comes back to help the Banks siblings through a difficult time in their lives.
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This was a legitimately suspenseful review
I'm two and a half minutes in and I'm still not sure which way it's going to go!
It feels like a week, I wish he would get to the point...
@@andrewohone if you want a simple yes or no, go to rotten tomatoes
Yeah there was a very Julius Ceasar at the Colliseum thumbs up or down life or death anxiety waiting to see if they have ruined a classic or created greatness. I'm really glad that they seem to have nailed it. I like Emily Blunt.
I am so happy that still exist people who can experience cinema on such a deep and personal level.
Natasza Różycka Couldn't agree more
Especially as a public critic. It's one thing for your aunt to talk about how much a movie made her cry and brought back emotions of childhood but it's another for a critic. Critics I feel are see as these individuals that need to be objective about art. Mark has never been that way. He very much focuses on how a movie made him feel and I think that's wonderful.
Dumb ole snarky internet reviewers have dissed this movie. I liked it lots. Sucks to those others
I'm so glad he enjoyed it. Nothing warms my heart more than Mark trying not to cry while talking about Mary Poppins.
And Mama Mia (both)!
Ha ha! Yeah. You can feel it through the screen. Bless him!
Only Mark can watch Emily Blunt as Mary Poppins and be reminded of Tim Curry in Rocky Horror. That's why we love ya, man.
Like Emily Blunt, Tim Curry came near to saving a film that was not nearly as good as the stage show. In Ms Blunt’s case, the film is not as good as the book.
@@davidsouth9979 lol what? It doesn't matter, it's still a GREAT film entirely! Mary Poppins Returns is STILL a FANTASTIC film immensely, you're not making any sense at all when you say any of this here AT ALL! And Rocky Horror the movie AND Tim Curry were BOTH fantastic and amazing as they are already ALL on their own as it's already an iconic film! There is no "cAMe nEaR tO sAvInG a fIlM" at all as the film stands triumphantly on it's own. You're TRULY not making ANY sense here at all towards BOTH films here! Seriously, just stop talking, for real! You have NO idea on what you're saying or doing here at all!
"Nothing you can do can change the original Mary Poppins" Ridley Scott could probably have a crack at that theory.
Hoopla10 😅
I love Mark's genuinely emotional response. For me, he is the critic without peer, because he doesn't try to score points, or adopt a cynical approach. Bravo Mark!
thank you Mark Kermode for being so open and likeable and making me smile, Merry Christmas everyone
I envy you Kermode for still experiencing films in such a visceral way. I feel like I myself have been desensitized by an overload of media.
Romit Varerkar take a break
I absolutely loved it. I felt as though I were a child watching the original again.
Incidentally did anyone else enjoy the irony that the day was saved by the fact that George Banks had in the end stuck to his guns and done the practical thing of investing Michael's twopence in the bank when the original film had always left me with the message that the sensible practical option isn't always the right choice. After going to so much trouble to honour the spirit of the film (and succeeding as far as I'm concerned), it was interesting that the plot of the new one hinged on contradicting one of the messages of the original.
Good point, I hadn't thought of that. Though, if I were to be overly persnickety, I'd suggest that the message of the first film isn't to abandon responsibility altogether, but instead, while one should act responsibly in life, never allow that mindset to destroy the imaginative, wonder-filled child in you.
This is more Kermode confession than review.
He's providing personal context and admitting a real emotional response. By that definition it's a great review.
I had the same thing with Human Centipede 3.
Just got back... OMG I'm so happy... I giggled and cried and left feeling like I wanted to swing round every lamp post in Crouch End...
Wind’s in the east
Mist comin’ in
Like something is brewin’
About to begin
Can’t put me finger
On what lies in store
But I feel what’s to happen
All happened before
Ok call me crazy but hearing Mark talk about the original and how much it means to him has got me in tears. I never thought I’d be so incredibly moved by a film review! When people have so much passion about something they hold dear is wonderful
To be fair, he cried at Mamma Mia 2, although personally, I found ABBA's B-Side songs to be pretty good.
@@thecinematicmind 🎵"... And if I greet you, what if I eat you?" 🎵
I don't have anything invested in Mary Poppins, but I just ... I really hope Mark likes it.
Edit: Oh, good.
You've just described exactly how I felt about Blade Runner 2049 :) The sheer relief that it took me back to that same place.
Soo true...
Absolutely .. but how sad is the world that Jumanji beat it (by a large margin) at box office ?!?
It was a relief to some extent. But your talking about following the greatest film ever made. Nothing can compare to the original's achievement, and nothing ever will.
2049 was such an amazing experience for me because first I was relieved they were doing the original justice - and then I started to realize it was doing a lot of things even better than the original... and then I realized that I flat out enjoyed it more than the original, which was SO unexpected, because I had thought there was no way it could ever be as good as the original.
I was crying during its ending, and then the Tears in Snow track played... I was a mess.
I wish that I could say I loved it as much as Mark. I definitely don't have the investment in Mary Poppins that he has, which is both disadvantageous and much in my favour, but though I liked a lot of things about it, the overall effect left me cold. I think it's somewhere between finding Marshall's musical numbers and/ or animated sequences just a bit too bombastic for its own good; the fact that I found the older banks children in this far, far, far more engaging than the rather bland kids; and that Emily Blunt is so fantastically good as Mary Poppins (frankly, no real surprise there) that I thought it was criminal how she was under-utilized in the later parts of the film, but though it's nowhere near the misfire that it could have been, it was far from the triumph that many reviewers, including Mark and Simon, have pained it to be.
I agree - and also he compliments the songs too.... now I grew up when my sister was a huge fan of the original and had it on VHS played over and over and over again..... this new film - I cannot recollect a single song from it other than I know they were all pastiches to the original - I am not saying its bad - but its very much like The Force Awakens where its a retread of pretty much the original story - and that is what I found disappointing
That’s fair enough.and practically perfect 😎 saw it
This was not the content I expected...what a superb surprise!
I'm so glad you loved it too and refreshingly honest for a man to admit to crying in a film. Thanks Mark - you get it! X
I couldn't help but smile when I saw it. It made me think of that old complaint "They don't make them like that anymore."
Well, they did.
Mark crying, now that's a shocker.
I love that about him.
Aw bless!
Naturally we'd all love to know exactly what his personal connection to this film is, Ill guess its something to do with something traumatic obviously but what is the question we will never get answered.
It’s an age thing. I find myself weeping at things. Hormonal.
@@davidsouth9979 I'm a 25 year old guy and I've never seen the original but I cried. I just loved it.
Kermode is officially a national treasure
Mark's response to "Lost Things" was exactly what I suspected: it's a song that kids won't get but their parents will bawl their eyes out because all adults understand loss.
I was in bits the moment the she appeared from the sky.
I have cried in movies: the end of "Who will love my children?" when the four year old boy refuses to be adopted because then his six year old disabled brother will have no one who loves him, when Oskar Schindler drops the ring and then mentions he could have saved more in "Schindler's List."
The other cry I remember is turning to my mother sitting among her grandchildren from the sister closest to me in age, and she was crying as during "Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" as the animals are all crying out, "Long live King Peter, long live Queen Susan, long live King Edmund, long live Queen Lucy" and then I knew that all the money I had spent for all of them to be there, and convincing them all to come to the theater to see this new movie I loved, was worth it.
I had read all seven of the Narnia Chronicle books to the twin nephews of my older sister, and now shared the movie with my other sister's children, but it was my mother who had surprised me. She actually had cared for a science fiction movie for the first time in her life.
Go watch Paddington 2. highly underrated, and captures modern London beautifully.
Paddington 2 is better than Paddington!
highly underrated? Universal acclaim and 100 percent on rotten tomato and did really well at the box office
It's a good film, but any resemblance to the real London is purely coincidental.
Ben Wishaw is a very good singer
This review hit close to home. Despite my best efforts, imbecilic UA-cam yammering and self-important "aren't-I-clever" comments about this film from a mediocre group of wanna-be celebrities filled my head as I entered the theatre. Took a few minutes to let go, fall in and just WATCH the dang thing. I thought the film breathtakingly courageous in its refusal to give a sweet goddamn about my sophistication. Gonna go see it again.
Watched it today and really enjoyed it, you'll never beat the original, but certainly watchable, nostalgic and very entertaining.
I already cried watching the trailer, looking forward to doing it some more then :D
Can't believe Mark starting tearing up at the end. Clearly he has a huge emotional spot for Mary Poppins.
Mark..Feed the Birds makes me cry every single time. Same as you...watched it a hundred times.
I am very relieved. I am not quite as invested as the Dr, but I can breathe again. I am a 'cryer' as well so I will take tissues with me. But please don't put me through it again with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 2 or The Railway Children 2 (couldn't watch the TV remake for long). BTW didn't get on with Mamma Mia 1 or 2 like Mark, so I hope it's better than those.
I love Marks reviews. Saw this film on my birthday. Glad I did.
Mark Kermode's experience with this film was the exact same as mine with Avengers: Endgame.
Perhaps the new Mary Poppins is calling on source material (i.e., PL Travers books) more than the original Disney version did. I don’t know as I haven’t seen it, but I read all the books as a child.
Lovely to hear Mark speak so well of this film.
I think many of us thought, on learning they were making the film, "Please don't mess this up!" And they didn't.
Think of all them Starwars fans out there who went through all the same emotions on The Phantom Menace.
I all ways cry when I go cinema cos it costs me about £40
The same sense of emotional relief he got with the blade runner sequal.
The film may not have the heart warming moments as its classic predecessor had, however the film’s well acted, well casted, stylish & effective. (76%) (4/5 stars) (positive)
Tim curry ? Blunts voice made me think of Lady Colin Campbell
I feel this exact stress for the upcoming remake of Chicken run. Someone fetch me a valium
I have just discovered Mark Kermode and his reviews. This is only the third one I have watched and I have to say, I am hooked. He has the same sensibilities about movies as I, and I think most serious movie-goers/enthusiasts have. He seems to genuinely want movies, particularly sequels, or remakes to excel and to live up to their potential. I love that.
Single dad...took my kids and when we were really touched by the single dad/mom died, being gone thing.
that song he sang, when Mary sang to the kids about it and when the kid sang it to the defeated dad.JEZUZ!
Its amazing how the original resonates with so many people on so many levels.so glad to hear this movie does not disappoint.
Can't wait to see it. And Mrs Harris is an even bigger fan of the original than me, so, you know... good family night out and, well, deep joy portending. That aside, lovely to see Mark crumbling.
1:06
Sums up my feelings about a lot of Kermode's reviews
Indeed, let us hope this heralds the return of that elusive 'C"-word, largely lacking from 21st century cinema... Charm! 🏆
It's a shame the word "charm" has devolved into a synonym for perky, cloying, safe sweetness. True charm always has an unsettled edge, elements of mystery and challenge that (like Mary Poppins) never feel the need to explain, and frankly, could not care less if they are comprehended. I found the film charming.
Well put sir@@thewilytroutesq5260 Merry Christmas to you 🎄
I like the first one for the music, Returns is a great movie. It brought me back to the books, read when I was a child.
Oh wow! I've not seen Mark so passionate about a movie before, that is, the original Mary Poppins he's clearly so attached to but I've not seen him react to a new adaptation in such a way.
Saw it today and thought it was fantastic too. Glad Mark liked it so much too.
Awesome film, took me back to younger days. Loved it. 🎈
The original is unbelievable. It’s more than a movie.
Mark Kermode is with Mary Poppins like how people were with Force Awakens. It’s also strange to see him in a normal t shirt
Whatever my favourite films might be, I love your personal list because it brings to my attention films I have not made an effort to see or even known about. I have a new adventure of discovery before me.
I have absolute respect for Mark Kermode as a critic and love how he has articulated his reaction to a film that retreads the world that has been with him since childhood. It’s precisely how I felt at The Last Jedi. I was waiting for the feeling of relief but it never came, only a succession of gut-renching disappointments and total sadness at how a world I’d grown up with was trampled on.
Probably best you never watch the prequels then..
Well that was a beautiful reveal, how much the film meant to you Mark. Good to know it's a film worth seeing.
To some extent, I share Mark’s view of the original ‘Mary Poppins’ movie. I saw it around the time it was originally released in 1964, when I was 6 years old, and I believed every single minute of it, and to some extent I still do! It was and is literally a magical movie. However, for those reasons, and as much as I absolutely love Emily Blunt, I just couldn’t enjoy the new version, as good as it undoubtedly is.
To paraphrase Mark, its critics who can convey the emotional experience of watching a movie (because that's why *we* all watch movies because they are intensely personal AND shared) who keep criticism relevant.
'found' myself crying too. There's something about it.
"Callbacks" = Ripping off the original film's ideas. They aren't echos. It's the same stuff, just like The Force Awakens and Jurassic World are the same stuff. They are intended to play off your nostalgia and love for the original. You can't allow this film to be itself...it isn't itself. It's the original film with slight tweaks minus memorable songs.
They don't have a tea party on the ceiling, the ceiling is the floor. They don't fly kites at the end, they fly balloons. They don't have a dance with chimney sweeps, they have a dance with lamplighters (who ride BMX bicycles). You were had.
I loved Mary Poppins Returns Walt Disney will be smiling up there
Even his description made me cry!
Just seen it. It’s a pretty good attempt to do a sequel to an iconic film, but I don’t think it quite succeeds in the same way that Bladerunner 2049 did. Blunt is good in this.
High praise indeed! I'm sold!
"Where the lost things go"? Perhaps it will tell me where my teaspoons have gone.
this film is so uplifting. Emily is emotionally accessible more than i can say it about Julie Andrews.
Do relatively few people feel as I do which is that Mary Poppins is, deliberately it seems, the least interesting character in the 1964 movie (and, therefore, she should ideally deliberately be the least interesting character in the new movie)? She is not meant to be real 'as such'. She is no Maria von Trappe. Poppins is a mere catalyst. Her egotistical vanity and haughtiness is actually a reflection of the 'exterior' parts of society plus her own transitory status, outside the sure-minded, comfortable life afforded to the Banks' by Mr Banks, as a temping nanny. Frankly, she's like a working-class girl's idea of what an upper middle class woman is like. Her purpose is merely to be a 'cipher', a coded way to bring out the inate qualities already in the Banks' and in other people. Her charm, when it grudgingly comes out at all, is all front like a shopgirl- she sells dreams but, notably, she doesn't MAKE them. Real life, real men and women, make those dreams come true through loyalty and dedication and love.
Isn't that what any art is meant to do? To help people evoke their own coping skills in an indifferent universe? Each may be just hanging on to this ball of dirt whirling through space with awe, wonder, and trepidation and terror but, we are not alone in that. By communicating how it feels to be alive we can encourage and comfort each other.
That's a nice socialistic-type 'big society' spin on it, BigHenFor. I mean that sincerely, not sarcastically, but, at the same time, the Banks' are a 'nuclear family', a tight knit unit. They can afford - at that time, not necessarily forever - to be slightly aloof from society. I don't forget that it's a specific tale about a relatively prosperous family, not just in money but in terms of having parents who are passionate about their 'calling' - a family man providing a lovely leafy townhouse for his children's upbringing plus sensible, if sometimes prescriptive, guidance , a mother interested in feminism, if not always in the home as a result. The sequel, which I haven't seen yet, appears to show the children now grown up, in more depressed economic times, circumstances that perhaps give them a real, rather than just an educational, need to encourage and comfort as you say.
I used to recite Mary Poppins to myself to sleep as a kid. I hope this is good.
Now Mark can understand better Star Wars fan's intense trepidation and subsequent crushing disappointment with the prequels. 🙏🙏🙏 Please be good, please be good...
Exactly.
@Litshttam Not really no. If anything it gave more kids time to grow up enough to be a new generation of fans.
But the problems with the prequels weren't because of expectations.
Just as the problems with the new ones aren't either.
@Litshttam No actually, I and millions of other people knew they were coming.
But they were bad totally regardless of expectations.
Nice try though.. anything else?
Watched this yesterday, and while it's a good film (wife and kids loved it), it took me over half the film to stop making comparisons with the original. It isn't helped by the scenes that, while not carbon copies, take very much from the original. Also, the film should have started with Jack saying "winds in the east, mist coming in...". I'll probably enjoy it more on a second watch.
Mark Kermode is the one film critic that l listen to and believe in.
This was near perfect everything Walt Disney would love I was hoping for a wink and a nod from Julie Andrews at the very end but Angela Lansbury and Dick Van Dyke more than made up for it. Pure Magic
Hmm Sometimes Mark and I really seem to have completely different experience in the cinema. I really didn’t like this movie. It left me cold and bored. I found the children irritating, Mr Banks frustrating and Mary Poppins a little sinister. The message of the film seemed to be “children, all will be alright in the end because as it turns out, you are actually rich after all!” Also Mary could have just fixed the Big Ben without making all of those “disposable” working class men risk their lives to climb the tower!?!
The Force Awakens of movie musicals.
@@thecinematicmind lol
@@thecinematicmind ...people like The Snowman & The Snowdog?
Hahaha... that was EXACTLY my thought when I left the theater. In spite of that, I still liked it. Actually I think it had more care and love put into it than TFA.
It wasn't just Robbie Collin who had the thought of this movie and Mark and thought "And???"...
Now Mark, maybe you finally understand why star wars fans were so upset - when THEY had sequels by people who didn't care about the original in the slightest.
Except they didn't. Abrams and Johnson have both expressed their love for the franchise before and you can see that love in their movies. The thing is that different people like different things about Star Wars and there's no pleasing the entire fandom, especially now when people who grew up loving the prequels are now adults whose childhoods were just as strongly shaped by Star Wars as those who hate the prequels.
Personally I think The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi are two of the best Star Wars movies. In the future a new generation of Star Wars fans will grow up with these films as the classics and find the hate people had for them just as ridiculous as the hate Empire Strikes Back got when it was new.
The Force Awakens is so obviously and utterly bereft of new ideas that I find the judgement of someone that finds it one of the best films in the series a bit bizarre. It is blatantly meant to replace the first Star Wars in the eyes of a new audience, rather than extend the story. These arguments have raged for months, no need to say everything again, but here you go, pick your film Star Wars, or Force Awakens:
Comedy Robot gets secret stuff stuck in it.
Comedy Robot meets loner kid on desert planet.
Pair Joins old guy who knows about big picture & Millenium Falcon (the order is different in the two movies, I grant you)
Party Dicks around with smuggler stuff that doesn't have much to do with the main plot.
Party ends up in big space station that can trash planets
Old guy gets killed by baddie who has previous history with old guy
Big space station gets blown up due to "David vs Goliath" style little fault.
The sequels loved the original trilogy, it's the prequal movies that had nothing but contempt for the originals
10tonhamster So your argument against The Force Awakens is that it has parallels? These details exist to highlight the differences. Meanwhile the focus is on the new characters and their stories, which are very different from Luke’s in the original A New Hope.
I came out of the cinema thinking “I’d already seen that film” - it was far, far more than just parallels and it’s not like Star Wars was particularly original to begin with. Loved it when I was a kid, and I accept that the films are not made for me any more, I’m just very disappointed.
Let's be honest, Mark was never going to hate this.
Plot spoiler. He likes it but you have to watch him ramble for 5 minutes before he gets to the point. If he takes a Christmas break we will be saved rambling reviews of it in the top 10 for the next 4 weeks. (And I like him!).... For the first time ever I'm looking forward to the supply teachers.
I think it needs a second viewing. There are too many bits I think I missed the first time. It was heart warming but I didn't cry.
And people have a go at people that get worked up over remakes of other films like Hellboy & the new Men in Black for example
Yes, but in this new 'Mary Poppins Returns' movie, is she sporting Yondu's head-fin & yaka arrow (to control/threaten kids), whilst whistling menacingly? ["I'm Mary Poppins, Y'all!"]
I know this is blasphemous, but I may enjoy Marks reviews even more than those of Roger Ebert. At least the video ones where you get an insight into his personal involvement in films :)
i like enthusiasm but this is psychotic
I turned the film off after half an hour for these reasons that no one seems to be bothered about:
The casting is awful. They don't look like their original characters, nor do the Banks kids look related in the slightest.
The pace was too American- dialogue flying from all angles. With no offense to Americans, they should have gone with an English director (over American) to suit the English tone and to put Emily Blunt in line--
Emily Blunt's astute English accent was too much, she had no kindness in her character (at least from what I saw in the first half an hour), and her ego was far too big to whimsical. She just didn't charm me.
I just couldn't carry on with the film. As one critic stated- this film is like Mary Poppins' evil twin. Although I didn't finish it (which is very rare for me when watching films), I wholeheartedly agree.
I feel exactly the same way about everything said here. Similar experience with the force awakens. Thank god there is no “the last Poppins” on the horizon to ruin it
Mark Kemode watched the movie through rose-coloured childhood memories of the original version. Unfortunately illustrates perfectly the truism of the adage: Once a man, twice a child. A grown man and a professional film critic crying at a film screening? Disgusting!!
Okay, it is a rather feel good movie on its own standing. Not too long or overly cheesy. All the actors were properly cast and they all delivered within the context of the setting as a sequel. I will be seeing it again when I take my two nieces out next week.
Just seen it and it was brill.
I’m disappointed that critics who should know better are giving this movie a pass. I saw this with a couple friends and were shocked how mediocre and manipulative it was. Oscar-baiting and cash grab all in one movie. Possibly the biggest disappointment of the year in films.
Think you’ll find you’re in the minority there, Scrooge!
PHEW! I so was worried Mark would hate it
Mark, you’re awesome man! X
I really enjoyed this film
Not a fan of Mary Poppins but this is a great review.
Still know nothing about the actual film after hearing 7 minutes of this, only the reviewer’s personal history with the franchise
It makes me happy that Mark enjoyed the movie. When I first heard about his one of my first thoughts was 'You better not muck this up for Mark.' so happy days.
Saw this last night. Sadly, I thought it was style over substance.. with a very thin storyline. A good effort to follow up on a classic that falls way short in my opinion..and cameos by famous actors- wasted. Left me longing to watch Paddington again!! Emily Blunt is a fine actress, but not for this- in fact I felt that Carey Mulligan would have been a better choice. I don't know why you cried Mark..this left my family and I cold.
Mary Bobbins. Right, Kids 👍
Walt Disney will be smiling in heaven 😊