Saturday, May 01, 2010
Mary Poppins
On Tuesday of this week, I had a short post about confusing movies that inexplicably got 57 comments. Crikeys! My favorite of them, though, was Micah's description of Mary Poppins as a drugged-out psychedelic movie:
[Poppins] flies in, gives kids a "spoonful of sugar", pulls things out of a bag that is clearly too small to hold them, then takes them into a psychadelic dreamland with 1960's era pastel animation, where they dance with penguin waiters before the whole place melts and they find themselves disoriented on a random London street corner. It also features a man who "got so high that he couldn't get back down", and Mary's apparent meanness following the end of the "sugar" incident, during which she is so unpredictable that she sends the kids running out onto the dark streets of London alone away from her. The film ends with a little number about flying up to the highest heights.
