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DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
Fosse76
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/05
#51MEH-ry Poppins
Posted: 1/11/19 at 4:34pm
dramagoer said: "What a total snooze. The songs are ALL awful. The plot is a big who-cares. The performances are adequate. It really feels pointless."
It was pointless. But Disney couldn't make an official re-make without alienating , well, pretty much everyone, so they made a "sequel" that pretty much follows the structure and tone of the original film.
#52MEH-ry Poppins
Posted: 1/11/19 at 8:08pmI think Disney needs to just stop with the sequels and remakes of their classics in general. I have a feeling that this movie's disappointing box office performance is a sign that people might be waking up to how pointless and lackluster Disney's remake fever has been.
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#53MEH-ry Poppins
Posted: 1/12/19 at 1:48am
I don't know about you but looking at Box Office Mojo tells me that Mary Poppins Returns has the same box office legs that The Greatest Showman did (maybe more so) and it may out gross La La Land's 150+ million domestically. I personally thought that the movie was so beautifully made and created with such love and passion for the first film that the "Disney Live Action Remake" stink doesn't even show up throughout the entire film; and with a fantastic soundtrack that is selling very well in the Billboard 100 soundtrack charts, tells me that the songs are already beginning to grow on people instantly.
Sorry guys, "meh" might not be the correct word for this movie. "Love it or hate it" is more appropriate.
bfreak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/6/11
#54MEH-ry Poppins
Posted: 1/12/19 at 2:08pmThe reason the film's box office is starting to be seen as struggling is because it carries a much higher budget than both Greatest Showman and La La Land. While I loved Mary Poppins Returns, it certainly hasn't held on quite as well as The Greatest Showman did last year, and time will tell if it turns out to be profitable.
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#55MEH-ry Poppins
Posted: 1/12/19 at 3:13pm
I've seen this film twice now. I can totally see the issues with it and the parallels with the original movie and I did have disappointments. However, I still wept from beginning to end. It really took me back to my childhood. Mary Poppins was a huge deal in our house and meant so much to my family. It still does. This sequel made me appreciate just how brilliant the original is and made me want to watch it again! This new movie may not be perfect, but it sure does make you feel like a kid again! I was floating on air leaving the movie theater! Absolutely adored Emily Blunt and was so happy they leaned more towards the Mary from Travers' stories. Her entrance scene had me bawling tears of happiness!
#56MEH-ry Poppins
Posted: 1/13/19 at 2:34am
Musical Master said: "I don't know about you but looking at Box Office Mojo tells me that Mary Poppins Returns has the same box office legs that The Greatest Showman did (maybe more so) and it may out gross La La Land's 150+ million domestically. I personally thought that the movie was so beautifully made and created with such love and passion for the first film that the "Disney Live Action Remake" stink doesn't even show up throughout the entire film; and with a fantastic soundtrack that is selling very well in the Billboard 100 soundtrack charts, tells me that the songs are already beginning to grow on people instantly.
Sorry guys, "meh" might not be the correct word for this movie. "Love it or hate it" is more appropriate."
Agree! I liked it very much and think the score is wonderful.
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
HereAndThere2
Stand-by Joined: 12/17/18
#58MEH-ry Poppins
Posted: 1/13/19 at 12:28pm
"I liked it very much and think the score is wonderful."
Yes !
I took my 11-year-old neighbor girl and her 9-year-old brother to see it. We were all mesmerized. A wonderful afternoon to long remember, thanks to Disney magic.
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#59MEH-ry Poppins
Posted: 1/13/19 at 1:18pm
I finally got around to seeing the movie on Friday night. My wife -- who would probably have LMM's baby were she not 30 years too old (to put that in perspective, I have only used this allusion one other time, when Baryshnikov was in his prime and we lived in NYC, i.e., 40 years ago) -- really wanted to go, so we went. I have never liked the original, despite seeing it at least 5 - 6 times (taking kids to see it when reissued mostly). I particularly didn't feel the blending of the cartoon and human characters, which I know was state of the art in those days. To me, even at 14, it just looked cheesy.
Well, much to my surprise, I had a wall to wall grin for the length of the movie and loved it. I can't say that any of the songs reached out to me in a big way on initial hearing, but I had the same reaction 55 years ago at Radio City Music Hall.
I thought the integration of cartoon characters and humans, thanks to technological advances, was beautiful. I actually thought that Emily Blunt's acting was better than Julie Andrews; and, if her singing was not up to Andrews standard, I sat there thinking that she could be a great Mame. She had presence, charisma to spare, sophistication, and sang very well. (And why can't Mame be a worldly mid-thirties...given Patrick's age and the fact that her brother was older than her...).
That said, I was never comfortable with Miranda. As a performer, he's talented, he has charisma, can carry a tune, and he dances surprisingly well. In the theatre, I never have a problem with diverse casting. In the movies, maybe less so. I could not get past the fact that he looked hispanic, despite talking with a Cockney accent. It rang false to me. So, I guess I felt that he was miscast.
Also, In some ways, I wonder if another issue is that he became sooooo famous so quickly, and beyond the million or so ticket purchasers who saw him in ITH or H -- and there were mega overlaps in attendance of the two shows as well as multiple time viewers of both, so the actual number of distinct humans who have seen him perform more than a song is likely to be significantly lower than that -- to a lot of people he is a personality (who they know created a Broadway phenomenon that has become the event to see if you never see anything else (and I don't actually think I am being hyperbolic...there was a news article about ticket purchasers in Tampa. They learned that many people who have never seen a live show in their life waited in the Ticketmaster queue for hours to purchase tickets to see it in Tampa). My conclusion: it was probably going to be hard to take him seriously, since we were more familiar with the personality than the performer, and had a hard time seeing the character vs. the personality (of course, this was probably true of Gaga as well, so who knows). In any event, I loved it.
PS -- What do people think of its disappointing grosses. It has only grossed $150MM and is quickly winding down. Since it cost almost that much to make, unless it does well overseas, I imagine that Disney could be taking a loss, which must be shocking to them.
I am assuming that kids above the age of about 6 probably wanted to see Aquaman or Ralph whatever or Spiderman or Bumblebee, fearing a cornball session that only their grandparents would like, although any people I know (via friends and family) between the age of 10 and 25 all seemed to like it. Again, I am surprised.
#60MEH-ry Poppins
Posted: 1/14/19 at 6:54amI just saw the movie last night and I loved it. Mary Poppins holds a close place to my heart since it was the first musical I ever performed in so it made me really happy to see so many references to the characters and style of the first movie and the stage adaptation. I also loved the score, and I have the opening theme and Can You Imagine That stuck in my head. Another thing that made my night was when I realized that Edward Hibbert voiced the parrot on Mary Poppins umbrella handle. Ive been a huge fan of Hibbert since I played Underling in my schools production of The Drowsy Chaperone last year, so even though he had a very small role, I literally started smiling and tearing up as I recognized his voice. I was also pleasantly surprised with the singing performances of the entire cast and for once in a modern musical movie I didnt notice any weak links when it came to singing.
#61MEH-ry Poppins
Posted: 1/14/19 at 3:55pm
"PS -- What do people think of its disappointing grosses. It has only grossed $150MM and is quickly winding down. Since it cost almost that much to make, unless it does well overseas, I imagine that Disney could be taking a loss, which must be shocking to them."
It should hit $300m internationally in the next few days, so I don't think they're TOO upset. With a cost of $130m (plus marketing etc. obviously), it'll probably be a break-even and then some for them, with home video bringing in a lot of extra bank down the road. In the US it's even surprisingly trounced the recent family-friendly, well-reviewed Transformers movie.
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#62MEH-ry Poppins
Posted: 1/15/19 at 1:23pm
jpbran said: ""PS -- What do people think of its disappointing grosses. It has only grossed$150MM and is quickly winding down. Since it cost almost that much to make, unless it does well overseas, I imagine that Disney could be taking a loss, which must be shocking to them."
It should hit $300m internationally in the next few days, so I don't think they're TOOupset. With a cost of $130m (plus marketing etc. obviously), it'll probably be a break-even and then somefor them, with home video bringing in a lot of extra bank down the road. In the US it's even surprisingly trounced the recent family-friendly, well-reviewed Transformers movie."
Way below expectations.
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#64MEH-ry Poppins
Posted: 7/13/19 at 12:02pm
ICYMI Mary Poppins Returns is now streaming on Netflix, and now seeing I gotta say, it was beautifully mediocre. It's a gorgeous production, with a lovely score throughout and some good lyrics here and there, and there are some beautiful moments of magic, but in the end it's mostly forgettable. The cast is wonderful, especially Emily Blunt and Ben Whishaw and the kids. But a notable exception of Lin-Manuel, who I'm just not sure is a good screen actor at all, and here just wasn't a good fit and given way too much to do when all I wanted was more Mary Poppins and the rest.
I think my biggest problem was the number of the musical numbers were just...too numerous and too much. There was a good stretch in the middle where I was just screaming for actual plot and not more endless musical numbers. The Royal Doulton Music Hall was fun at first, but wanted it to end much sooner; that one with Meryl Streep was the most pointless, forced thing ever; and Trip The Light Fantastic was well-meaning but excessive and overlong.
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alovingfan
Stand-by Joined: 12/30/10
#65MEH-ry Poppins
Posted: 7/13/19 at 12:07pm
everythingtaboo said: "I Buta notable exception of Lin-Manuel, who I'm just not sure is a good screen actor at all, and here just wasn't a good fit and given way too much to do when all I wanted was more Mary Poppins and the rest."
He is awful. Just to self aware. I dislike him on stage as well. SO how did this movie end up doing financially in the scheme of things?
#66MEH-ry Poppins
Posted: 7/13/19 at 1:11pm
alovingfan said: "everythingtaboo said: "I Buta notable exception of Lin-Manuel, who I'm just not sure is a good screen actor at all, and here just wasn't a good fit and given way too much to do when all I wanted was more Mary Poppins and the rest."
He is awful. Just to self aware. I dislike him on stage as well. SO how did this movie end up doing financially in the scheme of things?
"The critics kind of spared Lin by not mentioning him in their reviews. I could tell by the previews tat he looked lost. When I saw him in Hamilton the Hurricane number was a disaster. He also made Merrily We Roll Along and Tick Tick Boom hard to sit through.
