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[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Please God don't let them remake this one.

I hear they're going to remake it with Jessica Alba as Mary.


I'm joking.

I love this movie, too. It always leaves me with such a lump in my throat when it ends. You want her to stay, but you know she isn't needed anymore.

Julie Andrews is perfect in this film. So is Dick Van Dyke. And I've always wanted to live on Cherry Tree Lane. But not near that sea captain, he's crazy!

I always thought the movie lagged when the kids go to the bank and it gets pretty dark (literally) after that. But they pick it right up again with the 'Step in Time' number.

I like Disney's take on this story for the film. The book is pretty heavy in places and Mary isn't all that pleasant always either.

I think it's one of my all time favorite Disney live action flicks.

[Alex]

I've still never seen it in its entirety (or even in its majority or plurality).

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

I've still never seen it in its entirety (or even in its majority or plurality).

Alex grew up and had to leave the nursery.

[Alex]

I assume if I saw the movie, I'd get that?

My big problem is that I really don't like Julie Andrews. I know that is sacrilege but she is just so...something. She has one of those looks about her that makes me want to punch her in the face just so I can watch her nose bleed.

I know, that is wrong of me. But it is visceral.

Fortunately it is apparently only on screen. When I've met her at a few of the Disney events (and by "met" I mean was physically within punching distance not that we really interacted) she seemed perfectly normal. It probably wouldn't have gone well if I had been compelled to punch her as she worked the red carpet at the premiere of Princess Diaries 2.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

GC - even as a kid I liked the part where the kids were running through London, then caught by Bert. Bert's talk with them is great. The only part I ever didn't love was the Sister Suffragette number, and I now dig it. As a kid, the whole irony of Mrs. Banks' character (women's rights activist but subservient to her husband) was completely lost on me.

I tried reading the book but it was pretty awful, IMHO. Mary was a total biatch in it, and there's no story arc at all. She shows up, crazy things happen, then she leaves. I'm glad Disney made a whole new story out of it.

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

I've still never seen it in its entirety (or even in its majority or plurality).

I knew you'd post this. I would recommend you see it, but as you watch movies constantly, I figure if you were going to see it you'd have seen it by now.