Mary Poppins Returns Movie Review

Mary Poppins is my hero.  Emily Blunt should win Best Actress.  This movie should win Best Picture.  This movie should win Best Song for “Where the Lost Things Go”.

Mary Poppins returns illustrates truths that are ancient.  Mary teaches us that things people can grow up without growing old and use their imaginations no matter how old they get.  Mary tells us that the cover is not the book and if things are “getting scary be your own illuminary” and we can light up our dark world with the truth that where we are right now is not the way it is always going to be.  She helps us deal with grief as well reminding us that there is hope beyond the situation.  Rightly used and interpreted this movie could do a lot of people good.

The songs are amazing. Director Rob Marshall knows what he is doing.

I am impressed.

Two Thumbs up for Mary.

AQUAMAN Movie Review

2017’s Wonder Woman seems to have kicked DC in the pants. The studio made Aquaman “Marvelesque“. Having witnessed the last ten years of the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) this seems to have been a smart move.

Aquaman was enjoyable.  I do think they crammed too much into it and they could have easily trimmed a half hour off the movie.  It would have been more effective.  There were sections of the movie where I felt the length.  They could have put off the Black Manta storyline until Aquaman 2 and it wouldn’t have changed a thing with Geoff John’s excellent storyline.

The cast is excellent and you can bet your fins that Jason Mamoa is going to be in a lot of action movies.  He plays a hero who is layered with loyalty, humility, arrogance and courage.  Rupert Gregson-Williams, like his brother Harry, is an excellent composer and I enjoyed the musical score.  The CGI effects are terrific—much better than Justice League—and I enjoyed the epic imagination of director James Wan and his conceptual artists who came up with stunning new worlds beneath the waves.  I also enjoyed seeing the DCU begin to develop its own onscreen mythology with all the undersea kingdoms.  

Aquaman was mostly a pleasure to watch and with Wonder Woman and now Aquaman I have a new hope for the DC Cinematic Universe.  We will see who they get for Superman and Batman and how they are going to fix the two foundational characters.  DC really got themselves into a jam.  Shazam is up next.  We will see how he flies.  

Two Thumbs up for the King of Atlantis.