I DO love the singing and dancing!

Rating: 10/10 (25 February 2014)

Opposite of Ms. Travers Goff, I DO like the singing and dancing in Mary Poppins. I always have. In fact, if you read my other almost 200 IMDb reviews, you will see that those are my main criteria for judging a movie.
What a dull Poppins movie we would have had without the song and dance. I also truly LOVED Dick Van Dyke in Poppins movie. I do not recall Saving Mr. Banks explaining why Travers Goff did not want Dick Van Dyke.
Then there are the PENGUINS. They are so sweet, and such smart waiters. I liked seeing the tall human-acted penguins at the premiere of Poppins. You can tell that Ms. Travers Goff (I can only think to call her that) must have needed money pretty badly to put up with all the merrymaking changes to her droll movie she thought she'd end up with.
So, was Colin Farrell really Mr. Banks? I don't remember Farrell with a kite or putting up with that silly (not my opinion) suffragist (suffragette is the wrong historical term) "nonsense" (also not my opinion). Farrell played a handsome dude not looking like his rather plain, bookish poetry-writing oldest daughter. Somehow the mother was very unhappy, since "Ginty" seemed to dote on dear old dad and not on the hard-working slave-driven mama.
Ginty as a child looked way too tall to ride on her father's back. I think that looked pretty unrealistic, if not rather bizarre and smacking of some sort of a little too smarmy relationship with the child IMO.
So the daughter grew up with major thoughts of dear old dad, yet not much was opined about how she tried to save her adult mother from suicidal drowning. Maybe mama was jealous of Ginty and dad being a little-or-a-lot too close, if you get my drift. The young Ginty actress looked tall enough to be on the verge of puberty, etc., etc.
What a mean-spirited P.L. toward Disney himself! Walt had paid for her hotel and air transportation, meals, chauffeur service, etc., etc., yet the English brat was extremely rude. If she hated America so much, she should not have even crossed the pond. Of course, you did not see any such British tycoon offering her a fortune to convert her stories into a film.
I liked Tom Hanks' performance. He seemed to portray the stereotyped Disney with manners, dignity and aplomb. I feel that the character had a very difficult time not wanting to out and out slug the ungrateful Britisher.
Milk first, and then tea. Don't get me wrong. I really liked this movie, because it gave a lot of warm feelings and remembrances. I also liked the Poppins movie clips, although I feel they were too short. I liked the portrayals of the Sherman brothers when they sang, danced and played the movie characters.
10/10