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Experience the extraordinary animation, dazzling special effects and award-winning music of Walt Disney's Mary Poppins in this restored and remastered 2-Disc 45th Anniversary Edition! Join the practically perfect Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews) for a Jolly Holiday as she magically turns every chore into a game and every day into a whimsical adventure. Along the way, you ll be enchanted by unforgettable characters such as the multitalented chimney sweep Burt (Dick Van Dyke). Unpack Mary's magical carpetbag full of bonus features, including all-new bonus from the Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Broadway production of Mary Poppins. You won't need a Spoonful Of Sugar to love every moment of this timeless Disney classic!
Product Details:
Actors:
Julie Andrews, Hermione Baddeley, Don Barclay, Marjorie Bennett, Jane Darwell
Format:
AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Language:
English
Number of Discs:
2
Studio:
WALT DISNEY VIDEO
Run Time:
139 minutes
DVD Release Date:
January 27, 2009
Average Customer Rating:
based on 384 reviews
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0 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Mary Poppins stinks and Dick van Dyke is a bastardJul 11, 2010 First of all, I hate "Mary Poppins." It's garbage. It's crap and I hate Dick van Dyke is a bastard, the bloody bastard. He's so stupid and annoying. He's a loser. Hate to sound like the British, but the man is a bloody bastard. He's a piece of trash and I can't stand the man's presence. He stinks up every room he enters. An added bonus: this film is filled with bad and embarassing moments. I hate this movie, it's so stupid and lame and bad. I don't see why people even like this movie, it stinks. it's so horrible. I hate Julie Andrews, she is so annoying. She stinks. She's such a phoney baloney. She's so fakey. She's so annoying too, she really gets on you're nerves. I wish I could pinch her cheekbones or something or slap her fat face. She's so overly cheery and ick. She's a old windbag now, but still irreating. I never bought those kids either, how sweet they are?! Please! They're so fakey. I bet the director had to literally sit down and get it out of em' and they had to act really fakey onscreen. I bet it was a riot. I hate the mother of the children in the movie, she was such a goody-two shoes Disney character. I hated howed the father was always like a captain general, and he was a loser. Old Walt really didn't luck out on this one, this movie is horrible and it spells bad. This movie is bad and it rots. I think that the movie "Nanny McPhee" was much better and a better movie about a nanny changing the lifes of naughty children. This movie was horrible and I hate it and can't stand Julie Andrews. She's irrating.
Classic for GrandchildJun 10, 2010 I have started collecting Disney classic that I watched as a child for my granddaughter. I enjoy watching them with her.
Magic!Jun 07, 2010 Thanks for sending it punctually and in such perfect condition! We enjoyed this movie a lot!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Our Beloved Mary Poppins!Apr 26, 2010 Mary Poppins (45th Anniversary Special Edition)
It was a joy to have my six year old grandson put down his Guns, Light Sabers, and Star Wars Battle gear for a while to actually sit down and watch Mary Poppins with his little sister and I. He laughed and sang right along with us. I also noticed how calm and happy he was afterward.
Waiting For the Wind to Change....Apr 11, 2010 100 years ago this spring, a magical young nanny named Mary Poppins(Julie Andrews) sat on a cloud, surveying London, and preparing to meet her next charges after receiving an advertisement they created, but which their father had destroyed.
Down below, in a pleasant suburb, her long-time friend, Bert (Dick Van Dyke), entertains patrons of a park with a one-man band-performance. Sensing the impending return of his friend, he introduces the unseen audience to the tempestuous Banks household, headed by George Banks, a banker(David Tomlinson), his suffragette wife, Winifred(Glynis Johns), with two boisterous children, Jane and Michael( Karen Doctrice and Matthew Garber), and frequently quarreling domestics(Reta Shaw and Hermione Baddeley). Across the street, the eccentric Admiral Boom(Reginald Owen) keeps things interesting.
An irate Katie Nanna(Elsa Lancaster), the children's current nanny, leaves after the children runaway for the umpteenth time, their latest excuse being that they were chasing a runaway kite. Mr. Banks likes order in his life, insisting that everything be in place, and his pipe and sherry be in his hand at a specific time when he comes home, and his children's needs tended to by his wife and household staff, who are to present them to him just long enough for him to "pat them on the head and send them off to bed."
He is upset to find the children missing right around the time when he normally does that.But the local constable (Arthur Treacher) brings them home and their latest infraction leads their parents to search for a new nanny. While Mr. Banks would prefer someone solemn and cross for the position, the children write their own advertisement, for a kind, cheerful, and fairly pretty nanny who can have fun with them, and show them a bit more warmth. In reciting their preference to their father, they even point out their desire for someone who will not provoke their worst behaviors by scolding and dominating them.
After they go to bed, their father tears up their ad and throws it into the unlit fireplace, where the pieces are picked up by a mysterious wind and reassemble in the hands of Mary Poppins.
The next day, after another gust of wind blows away the queue of dour-looking applicants for the job, Mary Poppins arrives with the childrens' ad in hand, much to the bafflement of Mr. Banks, who allows her to begin a trial period with the children, delighted with her initial presentation.
But she promises to stay only until the wind changes...
Upon entering the nursery, the young nanny almost immediately begins sprinkling stardust on the childrens' lives, removing a plant, coat rack and other items from a carpetbag that appears too small to hold them, and with a dulcet and tuneful tone, turns cleaning up the nursery into a delightful game.
Afterwards, she takes them on an outing to the park, where Bert, now working as a screever, greets them.All four are soon magically transported into one of Bert's chalk drawings, dressed stylishly, and enjoying an outing at an outdoor cafe where animated penguins wait on them, they enjoy a carousel ride, and their carousel horses take them to join a fox hunt, and they end up in a derby race, which a flushed Mary Poppins wins,introducing the word, "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" to describe her feelings at doing so.They are entertained by pearlies before the rain brings their festivities to an end.To prevent her charges from becoming ill from exposure to the rain, the nanny gives them medicine, and takes some herself, with strawberry, lime cordial and rum punch coming out of one bottle.Her melodious method for getting them to sleep after an exciting day is to sing a song of reverse psychology called "Stay Awake".
The next day, the little dog Andrew interrupts their plans to go to the fish monger's by alerting them to the fact that Bert's Uncle Albert(Ed Wynn) is stuck on the ceiling after a laughing spasm set him alight.They join both him and Bert there in a riotous episode.
The young nanny's presence brings a cheerful air to the whole household, and even the domestics are on better terms with each other. Mr. Banks, however, is annoyed by the children's constant tales of their adventures with their nanny, complaining that they are no preparation for the practicalities of the real world.After his discussion with Mary Poppins, it is agreed that the children will accompany their father to his bank. In preparation for the next day's events, they are lullabied to sleep with the story of the old bird woman( Jane Darwell)outside
St. Paul's Cathedral.
Father and son have differing views about spending Michael's tuppence: Mr.Banks believes his son should deposit it in the bank while Michael wants it to feed the birds.The elder and junior Mrs Dawes(Dick Van Dyke and Arthur Malet) are among Bank's colleagues urging Michael to invest the tuppence with them.When the Sr. Dawes takes the coin without Michael's expressed consent, we see that children will be children, and Michael fights to get the tuppence back. The commotion from the incident leads other patrons to misinterpret the situation and there is a panic that temporarily shuts down business.
Frightened by the chaos, the children bolt, hurrying into the East London slums, where, after dodging a few potential hazards, they encounter Bert, currently working as a chimney sweep. They tell him what has happened, and before he takes them home, he explains that unlike them, their father has to work most of his problems out for himself, encouraging them to have some empathy for the person whom to them, often seems so foreboding.
En route to another suffragette rally, Mrs. Banks asks Bert to clean their chimney and look after the children, since Mary Poppins had a day off.Mary Poppins returns in time to see her charges get magically sucked up through the chimney to the roof, and another adventure begins.Bestriding the rooftops of London, partially by a staircase of smoke, bellowed into existance by Mary Poppins' umbrella, they eventually encounter Bert's fellow chimney sweeps, who entertain them with song and dance until Admiral Boom's fireworks chase them away.
As Mr. Banks faces the possibility of dimissal, Mary Poppins makes the children give their father the tuppance.
Mr. Banks verbally broods over the likelihood of shattered professional ambitions. But Bert gently reminds the reluctant Banks that his greatest legacy will be his children, and that spending time with them while they're young is also important.
Heading to the bank to face the music over Michael's behavior, Mr. Banks is ceremoniously sacked from his job. But suddenly the stories the children told him about their adventures with their nanny are employed to help him through when he is asked to make a statement.
The next day, while Mrs. Banks expresses her anxieties over her husband's failure to return after the previous night's appointment, her children are upstairs weeping over their nanny's impending departure.
But we will soon see how, metaphorically speaking, the wind has changed for the Banks Family, as Mary Poppins departs, having indirectly influenced even the lives of Mr. Banks' colleagues, and leaving a favorable situation in her wake. And what better way to spend a gloriously windy day but by flying a kite?
This intensely colorful film, a sentimental family favorite first viewed by my parents when they were newlyweds, strikes just the right balance between beautiful singing, wit, depth, and sheer joy, so that all generations can delight in this timeless classic.
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