I love you guys!!!!

Favorite movie ever. Wonderful and terrible at the same time. Sigh.
You've made my day.

Okay, fess up who loves it and who hates it? I couldn't tell from the post, I suppose that is the sign of a well written review.

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I love the song Feed the Birds, even though it is kind of gross.

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Please consider screening The Greatest Show on Earth, If you don't what to give it the MM treatment, you might at least have a burning desire to join the circus after watching it.

ooh, that crazy bird lady song is really creepy!

roflmao. Boys, this is hilarious!!!!!

"Close your mouth Michael, we are not a codfish."

I've tried to pattern my own parenting with a mix of Mrs. Banks and Ms. Poppins--disinterested, yet sinister. The book is even darker, btw.

Thank you for showing up on a holiday morning and making me laugh.

OMG. This has to be in the Top Three of best Musical Monday posts EVER, maybe even fighting with "White Christmas" for the #1 spot.

Quite right.

"Meanwhile down below, Mrs. Banks returns from her radical feminist march to the news that the latest nanny is quitting because the Banks children have run off again. She sings because she'd rather not talk about it."



LOL. This made my day, guys. I wish I could show this to my little ones.

"Fleeing before charges can be brought against her, Mary eventually settles in a little town in Austria and poses as a nun, biding her time until the next fucked-up family needs a nanny."

I laughed aloud at that line. Fantastic. This was great. I'm so glad MM's are back!

Don't be dissing The Bird Woman. That was the magnificent Jane Darwell in her last screen appearance.

But otherwise, a true and accurate review of the film, now that I think of it

"Fleeing before charges can be brought against her, Mary eventually settles in a little town in Austria and poses as a nun, biding her time until the next fucked-up family needs a nanny."

Just when I think you couldn't get any better you top yourselves again! Thanks for laughs:)

Love it. Reminds me so much of this! -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic

"Tlo said: Fleeing before charges can be brought against her, Mary eventually settles in a little town in Austria and poses as a nun, biding her time until the next fucked-up family needs a nanny."




OK, if you guys are 'egregiously overlooked' for Bloggie Awards again, I say we all dress as Suffragettes and storm the barricades!!

--GothamTomato

"Tlo said: One of us hates this movie and one of us loves it."





I'd love to know which is which. But I love Mary :Poppins (mostly I love the music).

I still remember seeing it in it's original release, when I was in 1st grade. I wanted her high-button shoes; I wanted her carpet bag, I wanted Jane's dress, I wanted a nanny. I was amazed to see all those blue-eyed people. I dropped my tootsie-pop on the floor of the theatre & my mother would not get me another one. I couldn't understand why no one else was as impressed as I was that I could say, 'doshusalliexpeaisticfragicalirupus'. I started demanding a spoon full of sugar whenever I had to take medicine. I got nowhere. This movie really messed with my head. I saw it in a theatre again, in my 20's and could see all the seams of the circa 1963 special effects, and the anti-feminist slant annoyed me.

But I still loved the music.

--GothamTomato

<3 Totally not a fan of Mary Poppins here anymore, but mainly because I watched it to freaking many times.

You guys just made my night. I can never look at Julie Andrews again without thinking "SATAN'S BRIDE"
And, with your help,I have finally realised that "Let's go Fly a Kite" is actually about smoking pot and getting high; which completely explains why they see all the old fogeys out there in the park.

"Sewing Siren said: Please consider screening The Greatest Show on Earth,"




Yes, and I can tell you, from experience, that it's a documentary.

--GothamTomato

Heaven help me, I bought a carpet bag made from a real Middle Eastern carpet and used it as my bookbag in secondary school... Clearly Satanic/Andrewsian/Disneylian influences.

Full marks to The Boys for posting on a holiday and lots of huzzahs for the return of Musical Mondays!

All the best,

NDC

What perfect timing; a documentary about the Sherman brothers, who wrote this score, as well as that hateful, infectious ditty "It's a Small World," hit theaters Friday. It's called "The Boys."

Why is it both Judy Garland and Julie Andrews are always attired in some of cinema's most hideous garb?

And won't those dreadful children end up with coal miner's lung from hanging out in all that chimney soot?

To answer the question: like anything Julie Andrews does, Lorenzo loves the movie. Tom finds it painful to sit through. Lorenzo asked Tom why he hated it so much and Tom said, "Because she's such a BITCH!"

Gotham Tomato wrote: "I couldn't understand why no one else was as impressed as I was that I could say, 'doshusalliexpeaisticfragicalirupus'."


Oh my god - me too! I thought I was so special and talented. Thanks for the memory. :)

Jilly

Me too, Gotham! This movie (along with Peter Pan) had a lot to do with why I wanted to be British, live in a third-story nursery full of toys, and have a nanny.
We've already subjected our 3-year-old to this one. It's relatively harmless but could do with some editing for time.

I hated Mary Poppins, and I'm not a Julie Andrews fan either. She sings prissily. So THANKS for the smackdown. What a great way to start the week!

This was my favorite movie as a child. I saw it in the movie theater when it first came out, and then made my parents buy the album so I could learn every word to every song. I think I still have that album (probably all scratched or warped) in my attic.
LOVED the TLo take on it. I laughed so hard I cried!
I can't wait to see what you do next!

the books (there are 4 of them) feature an even more appallingly vain, smug, cold Mary Poppins. By contrast, Julie Andrews is a humble and charming beacon of love.

I taught Mary Poppins last spring, to undergrads, and they would have loved your review.

I find MP a hysterically funny movie, largely because of Ed Wynn floating on the ceiling. And Mrs Banks' suffragette activity.

I always thought the red-and-white dress Mary wears on the "jolly holiday" outing was the single most beautiful garment i had ever seen. i still have nostalgic twinges of desire to wear such a dress.

Love the Musical Mondays, but still campaigning for a review of High School Musical 2 (or 3, but not 1; the first one is just awful. 2 and 3 have lots of opportunities for your brilliance).

Mary eventually settles in a little town in Austria and poses as a nun, biding her time until the next fucked-up family needs a nanny.That may be the funniest thing you guys have ever written (and believe me when I say there's a lot of competition for that award!).

I've always hated this musical.

Thanks!

This was GENIUS.

:D :D :D :D

"she abandons the children as she and bert engage in foreplay." fucking BRILLIANT. best musical monday you have EVER DONE. even though i adore this movie, and cant see how anybody could possibly loathe the sublime julie andrews. not to mention dick van fabulous, doing the worst cockney accent known to mankind. even if he does go to "minstrel shows." i just died laughing.
and i always though feed the birds was fucking TERRIFYING!

This film analysis has actually made me want to see this again, even though I normally hate this movie. Thanks, guys!

I'm laughing so hard I'm crying, and my sides hurt!!!

Love it, love you, love Musical Mondays!

I recently watched this movie for the first time since I was a child, and realized how little sense the whole thing makes. To be honest, I don't even like the music that much. Feed The Birds is a terrific melody, however.

Sound of Music is my favorite movie ever.

"SUS said: Me too, Gotham! This movie (along with Peter Pan) had a lot to do with why I wanted to be British"



Well, who didn't want to be British in the mod 60's?? London was where everything was happening.

--GothamTomato

This was BRILLIANT!! I think this one rivals Sound of Music for my favorite MM. Great job!

I suggest that you do a MM of Doctor Dolittle. That was one of my favorite movies as a kid, and I just watched it again recently and saw how ridiculous it was.

I shudder to think how history might have turned out had TLo not started blogging.

I shall evermore be moistened by tears of sincere gratitude.

This is great!!! I'm a foreigner so I've never seen this movie in its entirety. I do remember watching the scene where Mary met up with her bf and the "opium den" that you were referring to. I have to say that those scenes really creeped me out. I didn't want to watch the whole movie because I couldn't believe it is a children's movie.

So glad Musical Mondays is back. Now that Carmen Miranda has a DVD box set, you HAVE to do "The Gang's All Here." It's so gay, Carmen makes a point to use the word "gay" as often as she can in the movie's opening number!

I used to converse alot with a friend from Ireland who absolutely DETESTED Dick Van Dyke in this movie.

The worse cockeny accent ever spoken.

He is sad. He's probably going to lose his job, his wife is running around with radical lesbians, his children are hanging out with black people and his servants are tools of the devil.Oh, so much awesome. I am so so glad you guys decided to start these again.

And as terrifying as Mary Poppins is in the film, she has nothing on the Mary of the books.

Musical Mondays again!! You boys are too good to us :) Have a great Memorial Day!

Fabulous, Boys!

Though, I, too, loved "Feed the Birds." And I liked Glynis Johns. Other than that, there's something plastic about the movie.

Since people are putting in requests (not that TLo asked), may I suggest (forgive me if you've done any of these; I've missed some of the earlier MMs):

Brigadoon
Half a Sixpence
West Side Story
Yentl
Paint Your Freaking Wagon!!!

I will never stop loving this movie (I wanted to BE Jane when I was a little girl) but damn, this review had me laughing my ass off, especially the last line. Well done, TLo!

as a child, I wrote out the word "supercali...docious" and then painstakingly wrote it backwards, letter by letter. I was super annoyed when I realized she "cheated" and just reversed most of the syllables instead.

i still taught myself to say the line her way, and only VERY rarely will someone respond, "indubitably."

and Bri, I was wondering if someone else would post the "Scary Mary" trailer!

so glad Musical Mondays are back!

a.c.

Please, please do Chitty Chitty Bang Bang--that movie scared me for a lot of years of my childhood!

"Love the Musical Mondays, but still campaigning for a review of High School Musical 2"

Oh my god, YES! The throbbing gay love story of Closeted Chad and Obviously Gay Ryan! "I'll show you how _I_ swing..." Unbelievable!

(I'm so happy to see Musical Mondays back again. That's how I found this blog in the first place. Love!)

Fucking Genius!

"Bert, fresh from performing in a minstrel show, talks them out of it."

*dead*

"The children are returned by the police after a routine roundup of the local gangs. No one cares."


Fucking ROFLMAO.


You bitches rock!!!

Since I am a very big dork I enjoy reading "fun" facts about movies and I stumbled upon this one for Mary Poppins...

Many of the nannies in the large queue of applicants for the job at the start of the film were actually men in drag

Looking at the picture and both the movie I can't figure out which ones are the men... EPIC FAIL...

I'm rooting for Chicago for a future musical Mondays...

Dear Brooklyn Bomber: Ask and you shall receive (at least in part).

West Side StoryBrigadoon

You guys are brilliant. Now I have to watch the movie again with the true story in mind!!

flory

Okay, this is for Lorenzo and anyone else who likes Julie A - a not terribly good movie called "Unconditional Love" came out a few years ago with Kathy Bates. About a third of the way through the movie is a wonderful scene on an airplane. If you get a free rental sometime, check it out, it is delightful.
- Donna in Seattle

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!

That is such a "rip the covers off way to look at this and soooooo funny!!!

I still think the "commercials" for PR you guys did some time back was the funniest, BUT THIS WAS ONE OF THE TOP!

Oh, Lilithcat, thank you! I admit, I was too lazy to look.
P.S. My dog's name is Lily but my brother in law's pet name for her is Lilith.

I have never seen the movie in it's entirety. It just never appealed to me. BUT, I just may watch it now and read along your comments as I make yet another attempt to submit myself to what I always considered a movie not worth spending the time on.
Your comments are totally hilarious, Tlo. Thanks so much for the laughs!!!

Oh, my god, the Brigadoon MM is hilarious, not the least for this immortal line, from TLO;

"Unfortunately, Gene wakes up the next day and, realizing that everyone he's ever known or loved has been dead for 50 years, spends most of the day crying. The day after that, he wakes up and the town has materialized in the middle of a high-speed rail line, killing half the town's inhabitants. The day after that, they're all killed by aliens."

After that last line, which I am still chortling over, you fucking OWE us "The Sound of Music".

Brilliant stuff, guys.

" Anonymous said...

After that last line, which I am still chortling over, you fucking OWE us "The Sound of Music".

Brilliant stuff, guys."


They've already done "The Sound of Music" and it's hilarious.

Click on the label "Musical Mondays"

Guys, I read it twice and I'm still LOL. Priceless!!

you should do the music man next!!

I've never been a Julie Andrews fan - she just always seemed so prissy, in her movies and in her real life. But she looks really, really lovely in these screen caps. A true English rose!

And the bitch did play some iconic
characters. Will she show up in the Virgens vs. Vixens? She really should.

Best interpretation of Mary Poppins ever. You guys rule.

Given her Satanic powers, I wonder if Mary Poppins could have tamed equally satanic Kate Gosselin.

For the newbies:

We added a list of all the musicals we've blogged so far at the bottom of the main page. Enjoy!

XO
TLo


P.S. We're still migrating all the posts. Very soon, we'll add "Shear Genius" and "Top Design."

Really, this post is not telling at all..
xoxoxox

Love the post! Anotehr bit of movie trivia: the Beatles were filming Hard Day's Night in London at the same time. ther is a picture of Paul with Julie and Dick outside the studios. Another suggestion for musical Mondays.

boys,

it's tuesday morning here, i just woke up and now my jaw hurts because of all the laughing this piece of crazy (good crazy) created.

You guys are nuts, and I love you for it!!

Hilarious!

I loved this movie as a child. I even had a Mary Poppins doll.

The "Mary Poppins" books were drastically different, with Mary a grim, homely character. "Dr. Dolittle" and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" were also very much Hollywoodized for the movies. I was outraged at both, having read the books before I saw them. (I think I was about 10 at the time.)

OK, if you guys are 'egregiously overlooked' for Bloggie Awards again, I say we all dress as Suffragettes and storm the barricades!!

--GothamTomato

Bloggies are not nearly good enough. These bitches deserve a combination of an oscar/emmy/peabody/pulitizer.
Put them up against anybody...

Just a weird afterthought: Doesn't the dad look kind of like Kiefer Sutherland in some of the screencaps?

ROFL- "Lucifer's Lover"!
I can't wait to show this to my husband who thinks the world of Julie Andrews. He'll have a conniption!

bri-Thanks for posting that youtube "Scary Mary" link. It added to the hilarity!

I'll admit to being scared of Mary Poppins when I first saw this movie back in the 60's.

Bri
5/25/09 10:19 AM Love it. Reminds me so much of this! -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic
Thank you Bri! I had never seen that and it was terrific!

And of course, thank you to my favorite movie reviewers! Somehow, I saw a completely different movie, but now my EYES are OPENED!!

I am laughing so hard, I had to get up and walk around before I could type.

You guys made my day! One of the funniest things you've ever posted-- and that's saying a LOT.

When I was a kid, I thought that "Step In Time" dance sequence was amazingly, unbelievably cool. After watching it again for the first time in years... I think it's even cooler!

Seriously one of my favorite movies (from my childhood of course). But looking at it again I can honestly say that that it is one weird flick! Still love it but what a freak show.

"Also, she has rickets"...LOL

This was one of your best MMs ever! Well done.

Has Satan's Bride graced us with her appearance on Virgins and Vixens yet? If not, I predict this recap will be cited multiple times in her battle.

It's my fave movie EVER and you guys have made it even BETTER!!

I adore you both!

I might add - After Mary leaves, Mrs. Banks runs off with her secret lesbian lover and get married.

Coming so late to the party - the essentials have been said. You two are public benefactors.

I saw the movie uncritically as a child, and pretty much loved all the scenes with Bert/Dick Van Dyke, especially the "love to laugh" tea party & "Step in Time." Though the animated fox hunt/penguins bored me silly, even as a child.

When I discovered them, I loved the books more - either because the fantasy element was more engaging, if darker or because the way adults/the world was always arbitrarily imposing limits and rules resonated with my experience of childhood.

I never could like the Dr. Doolittle movie because it was so inferior to the books - and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was not only inferior to the book but struck me, even at 9 or 10, as dull and illogical.

You two are definitely at the top of your form, though.

Boys, thanks for listing the entire Musical Monday roster - I really didn't realize you'd blogged that many. I'll have to try to get caught up.

I still think Paint Your Wagon would be a good one; it's so awful. Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin in a musical -- 'nuff said!

I love to laugh.

The movie is strange and lovely. The book (I just finished reading it with my kids) is BIZARRE.

Bert<3Mary. Then end. I always hate when people disagree with me when I insist they were boinking.

I've been trying to read some of these past musicals and PR episodes. But when I click on the link, it only shows the Comments boards.

Oh man, I thought this movie was so creepy when I was a kid. I never liked it until today! So much better TLoized.

TLo:

Are you guys considering tackling some of those insufferable Jeanette MacDonald/Nelson Eddy screechfests?

" Anonymous said...
I've been trying to read some of these past musicals and PR episodes. But when I click on the link, it only shows the Comments boards."


See Tlo's comment above, anonymous. They have transferred all the musicals to rungay, I checked, and they're working fine.

I've despised this movie for years-thanks for the fabulous send-up-if this had been the plot, it would have been so much more fun!

Love you guys! Only the truly fabulous can critique Mary Poppins, which by the way, is a fav of mine

p.s. have you ever done "willy Wonka"??????? now that is a f'd up movie

wickedly funny- o my.

If I get fired today, it's all TLo's fault! I seriously can't stop laughing. Mary Poppins is one of my favorite movies of all time, and probably my single most-watched movie. I always thought something was a little bit off about it, and now I see why.

Easily the best MM post since Sound of Music - and I love the connection you made between the two!

Freaking hilarious!!!

I have a feeling I'll never watch this the same way again...

We also had the album (which had Marni Nixon subbing for Julie Andrews) and I've loved the songs since childhood. I did "Feed the Birds" as the encore for my recital.

Betty on 5/26/09 at 10:16 AM said: p.s. have you ever done "willy Wonka"??????? now that is a f'd up movie


What about "Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang". FYI: The original book was written by Ian Flemming which blew my mind when I found out.

TampaBay

I loved this movie as a child, and had all the songs memorized. I love your take on it. It is pretty f'ed up when you think about it.

It's hilarious, boys! I showed it to everybody in the office : )

" Anonymous said...
Heaven help me, I bought a carpet bag made from a real Middle Eastern carpet and used it as my bookbag in secondary school..."


Love this story : )

Thank you, thank you.

First movie I can remember seeing as a child--don't remember much of it.

Love the books, cuz, yes, Mary Poppins is an uber-bitch--but then she seems to have been modeled on Gurdjieff. (Yes, seriously).

As an ex-musical theatre-ite (I've done three productions of the SofM--and the initials aren't an accident). Again, THANK YOU.

"ChelseaNH said...
I have a feeling I'll never watch this the same way again..."


LOL. Same here. Mary Poppins is one my favorite movies - I actually squealed out loud when I saw this post.

You guys rock!!!
Thank you so much for this post.

Well now I love the movie even more! Making her the Devil's minion adds a new layer to the story. Great!!

I'm only a little bit ashamed to admit that I hum the "Stay Awake" song to myself when I am having trouble sleeping. It works.

Fantastic review. I recently re-watched that movie and had to fast forward for most of it.

Oh guys, I love Mary Poppins but will never see it the same way again. And that, friends, is awesome literary criticism!

"Top Hat", please.

Effing A.MAZE.ING.

I thought for sure there's be a mention of the lesbian domestics, Ellen and Mrs. Brill.

Mrs. Brill was played by fabulous character actress Reta Shaw. She's best known as another housekeeper, Martha, on the tv version of The Ghost & Mrs. Muir. Heavyset and rather mannish, Reta was often a maid, secretary or cook, or an overbearing wife or society matron.

Shaw created the role of Mabel, Mr. Hines' secretary, in the original Broadway production and subsequent screen adaptation of The Pajama Game and introduced the song, "I'll Never be Jealous Again" with Eddie Foy Jr.

Shaw played Samantha's Aunt Hagatha on Bewitched. I also remember Reta quite well as an air force colonel on an insane episode of I Dream of Jeannie where everyone eats pipchicks (candy made by Jeannie's mother) and goes nutty acting out inner desires.

Ellen was played by Hermione Baddeley who went on to her greatest fame as Mrs. Naugatuck (again a housekeeper) on Maude. She also had a story arc on Little House on the Prairie as the crazy hermit Kezia that I remember quite vividly.

Baddeley also did time on Bewitched as Sam's childhood nanny, Elspeth.

Elspeth was also her character's name when Hermione was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for just 3 minutes of screen time in Room at the Top, a movie in which she appeared with Laurence Harvey, a man half her age with whom, in real life, she had a longtime relationship.

With their cockney accents and plain looks, Hermione and her actress sister Angela Baddeley were often cast as maids, housekeepers, dottie aunts and quirky characters.

Sister Angela Baddeley was a series regular on Upstairs, Downstairs, playing, of course, a cook. A grown up Karen Dotrice (little Jane Banks from Poppins) also played a maid on the show during its final season.

Speaking of the Banks children: Karen Dotrice (Jane) and Matthew Garber (Michael) appeared together in three Disney movies. In addition to Mary Poppins, they played brother and sister in The Gnome Mobile and friends in The Three Lives of Thomasina.

Matthew Garber died as a young adult. Karen Dotrice is the daughter on actor Roy Dotrice who has been acting in everything for 50+ years, most notably as the Beast's surrogate father on the late 80's TV series Beauty and the Beast and as Father Barrett on Picket Fences in the 90's.

I love this movie. But I couldn't stop laughing at your interpretation! Every time the giggles began to cease, one of your captions would set me off again! Bravo. Though I think you might have found something funny about Dick Van Dyke (snicker) playing the boss.