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Summary: This is *not* widescreen anamorphic format
Review: My 2 year old son and I love the film. Nevertheless, this DVD is in widescreen "letterbox" format, not anamorphic format like the description says. For those of you who care, this DVD is *not* enhanced for 16x9 televisions. Maybe the Platinum Edition will be? Let's hope!
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Summary: Fun and exciting!
Review: A story of a wonderful nanny that opened the hearts, minds, and imaginations of two lonely children.
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Summary: Smaller Kids Will Love It
Review: This is a comical satire on utilitarian precision and propriety : the children rather need more playtime and more imagination. In short, they need everything Mary Poppins, the young and charmingly loving witch brought to Bank's children. The film was shot just a few years before The Sound of Music. The rhythm of this film is quite slow and it's more like a play without much settings/background and, it's long. From the today's children's point of view, the scene about bank management board or even the bird-feeding woman may not be very inviting. Having said that, this is still a marvelous movie. Children would like the one man band played by the chimney sweeper. Mary Poppins part was wonderful. Even Mr Bank and his so-called woman-liberalizing wife and or the captain next door are all such a big humour. Yes, there is also the tongue twister... Now that Harry Potter, The Worst Witch are so popular, winds are certainly blowing Mary Poppins' way too. I rank this next to The Sound of Music.
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Summary: Great movie, poor DVD
Review: The movie is great, but not the DVD.
Some times DVDs have this annoying "Coming soon" thing where you have to press the "menu" button to get to what you've paid for. Guess what, on this DVD... menu button is disabled, forcing you to >>| to the part that you care about.
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Summary: A Musical Masterpiece: Julie Andrews' Best Performance
Review: 1964: Julie Andrews was awarded the Oscar for Best Actress in her performance as Mary Poppins. British-born Julie Andrews was an accomplished singer on the American musical stage, as well as a gifted actress who would later appear in such films as The Sound Of Music and Victor/Victoria. She is most known for her work in this film. To many, it is the zenith of her career; certainly it launched her career. The Disney film was based on the British novelist P.L. Traver's books "Mary Poppins" and its sequel"Mary Poppins Comes Back". George Banks (David Tomlinson), is the typical Victorian husband who works at a prestigious bank in downtown London, whose wife Winnifred (Glynis Johns) is an active feminist, whose children, Jane and Michael have successfully rid themselves of various nannies through their mischief. When the magical Mary Poppins comes into their lives, she transforms their lives through magical going ons (becoming part of a painting, having tea in the air) and brings happiness and remedy to the home that badly needs the affectionate attention of the overworked, uptight father. The Oscar for Julie Andrews as best actress was well deserved. Her prudish, sugary image as the "practically perfect" nanny could not have been if not for Mary Poppins. The musical, for this is a musical (which unfortunately never became a Broadway musical) contains lots of upbeat and memorable songs, tinged at times with a melancholy sentiment- "Feed the Birds" and "Chim-Chimeney" the latter which won Best Song, "A Spoonful of Sugar" and the hilarious "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".
A family-oriented film, but suited for child-at-heart adults and musical lovers, this film is perfect entertainment for everyone.
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Summary: Mary Poppins ~DVD~ Julie Andrews
Review: Absoloutly innocent and adorable fun that the whole family will love. With the cartoons, jokes and classic songs, this is a film that kids to great grandparents can watch and enjoy equally. There is so many great and important lessons too in the film. One such lesson is in the song "feed the birds" which teaches the importance of caring for all living things. Personally I get a warm and "in touch with Earth" feeling when I feed a deer, duck, etc, etc... Another great lesson comes from Burts job as a chimney sweep. As he and the children look out through the rooftop view of the city, burt tells the children how only the birds, planes and chimney sweeps get to see this view everyday. Its an important lesson to see the bright side of things even in the worst of situations. That is only a few of the great messages this movie delivers. Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews are amazing in Mary Poppins and show great chemistry. You can really tell how much love they put into this masterpiece.
The DVD quality is amazing. Im a bit dissapointed that there is no extra cartoons with this one, but the movie is more then enough fun.
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Summary: Supercalef...supurkaliff...sueperckali- brilliant!!
Review: I really can't add anything unique in terms of superlative descriptions (a wonderful marriage of live action cinematography and animation; great songs and lyrics; top-notch story adaptation), so I'll just concentrate on perfomances: Dick Van Dyke in a one-man band performance (literally and fictionally) of singer, dancer, comic, and enigmatic companion to lead Julie Andrews (in her debut film!) who manages to be equally charming, sharp, pseudo-caustic, and wistful all at once. I especially love the scene which shows the first time the children are ordered to bed (after a rainstorm forces them 'out' of a watercolor painting) and, much too excited to forget about their magical day, are finally sung to sleep by Ms. Andrews in the contradictory "Stay Awake" lullaby. It is a great scene/number which gives some insight to Mary Poppins' character: efficient, strict, crisp, but also secretly caring and sentimental- just as long as nobody witnesses as such. This is re-iterated in her closing lines about 'practically perfect people,' but it is a carefully staged balance of emotions just the same. She deserved the Best Actress Oscar every step of the way.
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Summary: Family classic
Review: My 4 year old son, 2 1/2 year old son and 1 year old daughter all enjoy this film. They mainly enjoy the singing but my 4 year old is able to get some of the jokes. A nice video for family movie night since it is not scary or too fast paced.
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Summary: Magnificent
Review: This has always been one of my favorite movies of all time. Mary Poppins is a wonderful story about two children who want a nanny who is cruel or cross. Somehow they get Mary Poppins. She instantly turns their lives around and brings the entire family closer together. This movie is great for all ages.
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Summary: 'merry bobbins steb in toime'........
Review: A great film for all the family but, as an Englishman, I am outraged by Dick Van Dyke's 'accent'........
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