Practically perfect in every way!

Rating: 10/10 (14 December 2014)

If you enjoy "Mary Poppins," then you will enjoy this movie because I love it! "Saving Mr. Banks" is about an author name, P.L. Travers who travels from London to Los Angeles to work with Walt Disney as they debate some of the ideas to create one of the most beloved films of all time. You already know the history on how the movie "Mary Poppins" came to be so no need to go into much detail about it because this movie tells you everything on what happened during the behind the scenes of "Mary Poppins." Unlike most movies that are based on true events, this movie is the first time to shows the ideas and the creativity beside recreating the sets from a well-known movie like "Ed Wood" or "Hitchcock." The cast in this movie are terrific. Emma Thompson does a great job for playing the author of "Mary Poppins." She does start off as a woman that you want to smack her in the face for being too critical on Disney; the songs; and the ideas that the filmmakers were going for. The movie does show her past on how young she was as she was once cute before turning into an unlikable person. However, the more you understand her and the more you feel sorry for her. With that said, Tom Hanks is absolutely remarkable as playing Walt Disney. He did captured the spirit on who and what Disney really is, and remaining true to his character. Colin Farrell and the rest of the cast all did great on their own. Thomas Newman's score is one of his greatest scores that he has ever done in his career. The film's cinematography and its setting is also really beautiful to look at; it really doe have that Disney magic, and it is also fun to see Disneyland in the movie. John Lee Hancock does a fantastic job on directing the movie. My only issue with the movie is the ending, because they never bother to show Travers after showing "Mary Poppins" to the movie's premiere and tells Disney on how much as she hates the movie, and thinks that it needs to be fixed. After Travers giving her thoughts on the movie, Disney tells her "Pam, that ship has sailed." I just thought it would have been something to show, but that is just a minor nitpick. Of course, I understand the filmmakers didn't want the movie to end like that because for what I understand from Thompson's interview is that the movie focuses on Daddy issues which is why they never end on Travers giving her thoughts on the movie. Even Richard Sherman, the man who wrote songs for "Mary Poppins" and consulting "Saving Mr. Banks" says that Travers is just a contradicting woman. In most interviews, she would say on how much she hates the movie, and in some rare interviews she would say on how much she enjoy it. So I give that a free pass. Anyway, "Saving Mr. Banks" is practically perfect in every way! I give it a 10 out of 10!