When a studio produces a movie that captures lightning in a bottle the way Disney did with Mary Poppins, you can’t blame them for trying to replicate the trick. But Walt’s follow-up musical, The Happiest Millionaire, had been an ambitious and costly misfire. So
This movie IMO creates its world beautifully, you believe you are there. It never quite attains the critical mass of Mary Poppins, and the severe cuts do not help, but I love it so. I listen to the soundtrack album all the time.
This movie IMO creates its world beautifully, you believe you are there. It never quite attains the critical mass of Mary Poppins, and the severe cuts do not help, but I love it so. I listen to the soundtrack album all the time.