However I'm not sure how they will process all the fast singing. Your child might relate strongly to this more than you will, especially when the adults won't believe the children even though the children can see that dishonesty has taken place. Perhaps devoid of most controversy-but in playing it too safe it's not super worthwhile or edifying because of that. There's no real moral to this movie except the bare bones plot-it's there to entertain and excite the imagination. Which is fine, it's their belief/movie company's policy to approach things in this way-I just paused and asked my child, "Hmm, that person seems confused as to where his wife went when she died-can you explain what actually happened?" My child shares my faith and gave a faith oriented answer, and that was that. It's true that what happens to people when they die is a given a mostly atheist/agnostic perspective and is repeatedly brought up because the father feels uneasy, however it's not made into a frighteningly empty answer, they do dress it up with a little imagination and positive thinking dealing with her not really being gone because she's not forgotten like some kind of cherished lost sock presumably to hold the younger audience over until they can handle reality (think 1996 Little Princess without the angel explanation). Too much of the movie was about nostalgics and making connections to the first. Poppins does not appreciate people asking her age or weight.Ĭons: The music rushes by far too quickly to be understood-perhaps in hindsight a good thing for the inappropriate song because even with subtitles I couldn't comprehend what they were saying (it takes place on the stage when the children enter the cartoon in case you are wondering where to fast-forward, they talk about what's underneath the covers-it's supposed to be about books, but there's a reason Miss Poppins changes from a victorian to a flapper haircut and she uses the term "covers" and a focus on people instead of "cover" and just book content if you catch my drift-but I didn't catch any sultry dancing and honestly you probably won't need to fast-forward just don't have them watch the movie too much). There's also a great message about not being rude-Miss. The main character does a great service when a widower is about to lose his home. One of the lead women is bold and active in her community without running afoul of the law or common decency like her counterpart in the last movie (though I do think the 1930s was pushing it as far as wearing pants all the time goes-you really have to get to the 40s-60s to avoid the shock it would have caused and possibly inability to be admitted to some places). Positive message about investing and holding onto what's most important. I also enjoyed the cameos-Angela Lansbury and Dick Van Dyke are always a treat. It's also fairly clean with an effort to put it on par with the first movie in appropriateness. At the beginning I was thinking "this is going to be awesome" but overtime things began to change as you'll see in cons. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails. But it follows in the original's footsteps with its catchy songs and strong messages about imagination, gratitude, empathy, kindness, looking past the surface, and - of course - being close to your family and believing in yourself. The sequel departs from the original by adding a clear villain and a few scenes of peril/suspense (including a mostly animated but still tense chase through a dark wood), though nothing ever gets too scary. As she did before, the flying, singing, lesson-imparting Mary arrives to help the Banks children - this time, the three kids of a now grown-up Michael, whose wife died a year before the movie starts (he and the children speak and sing about missing her) and whose family home is in danger of repossession. Parents need to know that Mary Poppins Returns, starring Emily Blunt as everyone's favorite magical nanny and Lin-Manuel Miranda as her Cockney lamplighter pal, is a sequel to Mary Poppins, the Oscar-winning 1964 classic.
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