Filmed beautifully. I felt like i was watching two c*larts students court each other
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More Mary Poppins but worse.
There are very charming and whimsical moments- I loved everything that was set up in the first 30 minutes of the movie- but the movie slowly gets degraded through thoughtless editing, rehashed Mary Poppins whimsy and a badass but also weirdly sexist finale. Yay for punching Nazis i guess?? Too bad it ended up in the lobotomization of Mrs. Pierce.
Despite how much I complain about this movie, I think it was still very creative. The final battle is really, really fun, and unironically I think this movie had a big influence on Harry Potter and Mary Poppins 2 .
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