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I'm rooting for this one tomorrow!
Me too, what a superb score. I still gives me shivers at spots, particularly Nowhere To Go But Up, which probably would have been my choice for the best song nomination (it's always the quiet ballads that seem to get nominated, I mean, Beauty and the Beast is a great song, but it's not the best song in Beauty and the Beast (IMHO, clearly)).
Anyway, on a different note, there's a Sing-Along version of Mary Poppins Returns; I can't imagine that there are necessarily that many kids hassling their parents to buy them this, but for those of us who want to hear more clearly the gorgeous orchestrations, it's a wonderful alternative way to listen to the songs. It's amazing how much of the detail is obscure by the vocals (not in a bad way) so super to uncover it.
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I was all set to snort with derision at this film. And I thought it sustained itself exceedingly well about as long as the first film did (both slumped in the 2nd half, for me). So I think it did very well for what it was meant to be.
And how nice they gave a rather touching song to the father, at the beginning. That could have been cut easily, but they kept it. Nice.
And my goodness I hope I'm in good voice past age 90, just like Angela Lansbury is! Wow!
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But why do they insist on a youthful MP who looks like a cosmetics ad?
Emily Blunt is six years older than Julie Andrews was when she played the role.
And she looks just as youthful and just as much like she's from a cosmetics ad as JA did.
Someone agrees with me:
"As she was written, Mary Poppins resembled a Dutch doll, with black shiny hair, small blue eyes and large feet.
Apart from her size eight feet, Julie was physically unsuited to the part, being really too pretty."
(from Julie Andrews, An Intimate Biography, Richard Stirling)
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