Pretty emotional

Rating: Null/10 (23 December 2013)

I have to start off by saying that I haven't seen Mary Poppins. And really, it's not needed. I thought on a purely emotional level, the film works quite well. The problem is that so many of the childhood/past scenes come off overly sentimental and are not that interesting. It's all so obvious in their execution. The scenes with an older Travis fare much, much better, and much of it is due to Thompson. She's the living heart of this, she's a little hard to take at first (the character as intended, of course) but Thompson plays this character so incredibly well. It's truly an amazing performance through and through, I just wish the film was more consistent. And I'm not a huge fan of Newman's score here, or rather, how it was used.