Mary Poppins Returns

This was…frustrating. Emily Blunt is quite wonderful as the titular character, but there’s just so much that doesn’t really fit together around it, dragging the movie down until the end. I wanted to like this so much more than I did.

There are two main sources of my frustration with this film. The first are the numbers. The music is just simply not that good, delivered in muddled accents, with lyrics that don’t catch. There’s a level of complexity to the music that doesn’t lend itself to bei...