not much excitement

Rating: 4/10 (12 August 2014)

The problem with this movie is there isn't a lot of excitement, little happens. I don't know how much is true and how much is just added on by the writer, but there isn't a lot of drama. This is more like a lifetime TV movie.
It's the story of what Walt Disney had to do in order to get the rights to Mary Poppins. The writer, PL Travers, is very particular, doesn't want animation, wants the house to look like her vision, no color red, no facial hair, etc. And Disney must comply to get the rights to the film. Toward the end, she warms up to the writers and creators of the film. And intertwined throughout is flashbacks of Travers child hood, with her drunk father and depressed mother. I don't know why this was included, it wasn't a movie about the life of Travers.
FINAL VERDICT: Very slow moving, many will get easily bored. So unless you like boring movies, skip it.