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Let me start off by saying I love ‘Mary Poppins’  I never had read the books as a child that I can remember..I was a Nancy Drew girl, but the movie was wonderful. I also love Disneyland..yep the one & only true original DISNEYLAND in Anaheim. It was a wonderful place to go to as a child though I didn’t get to go a lot of times, they were all memorable. This movie really brought back all those memories in a way that I never imagined because as a child you just sometimes think all these things are real, I did at least, and they just magically happen! You don’t think that someone wrote them, and spent 20yrs trying to make it a movie, nor 2 random guys wrote the songs etc etc.. One day it’s just there and it’s wonderful. This story tells you so much more which is why I probably wouldn’t take kids to it. There is no swearing or killing, nothing ‘R’ rated, but hey, just don’t spoil the fantasy that most kids have like I did. I found this to be a rather heart-wrenching tale of what & who ‘Mary Poppins’ really is ..or was..and it made me a bit sad that her life had to be so hard when all these years, you just thought she had a spoonful of sugar and everything was grand. Tom Hanks is fun as Walt Disney himself (will he be cryogenically frozen also – hmmmm 🙂  but I am not so sure Walt himself was really that jovial. I always heard stories that he was kinda a grumpy guy.. I love Emma Thompson as P.L. Travers and from the original recordings you can hear that yes, she was that bitchy of a Brit over her story! ha! Colin Farrell does a good turn here also as ‘Mary’s real life father’ and really the man who prompted the story be written at all.  I liked this movie and while I don’t think it will win any major awards, it’s a decent nomination turn.  Grade: B+  #peggyatthemovies