Critic David Edelstein has called the new flick, Mary Poppins Returns, which I probably will not see, “a bit of a dud.” I see the original Mary Poppins (1964) the same way, except for the songs. The agreeable score deserves a better, tighter story. Again, what Edelstein wrote about the new Poppins is true of the old one: “the plot is ungainly.” Wasn’t the first time a Disney film was ungainly.
