• If the old Mary Poppins means a lot to you, I suspect the new one might come up short. The uplifting tone gets suffocating at some point, the messaging hammered into your head throughout.

  • Shubhra Gupta
    Shubhra Gupta
    Indian Express

    5

    Emily Blunt is good, as are the children, and the rest of the performers do their job well enough. A couple of the sequences, when Blunt lets herself go, as well as the climactic set-piece, is quite lovely.

  • Anupama Chopra
    Anupama Chopra
    Film Companion

    5

    If you have young children, you might consider giving Mary Poppins Returns a chance. I think they will enjoy it. There is less fodder here for adults but perhaps like me, you can distract yourself by admiring the sharp cut and fit of Mary’s coats.

  • IANS
    IANS
    Sify

    4

    Overall, while the original film was “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”, this one is “simply-fragilistically-sad”.