If you haven’t seen the new DVD release of it, you haven’t really seen the movie.
“Sub…etc” summons the forces of darkness to torment Roddy McDowell and kick Nazi ass.īedknobs and Broomsticks hasn’t gotten the respect it’s deserved for two reasons: One, it was seen as an obvious attempt to cash in on the phenominal success of Mary Poppins (and, let’s be honest, it probably was) but Two, it’s been butchered all these years. But in a rare turn of events, the rip-off is better than the original. The songs are fully integrated into B&B, from “Age of Not Believing” to “With a Flair” to the obvious attempt to rip off the success of “Supercalifragilisticepialidocious”) “Substitutionary Locomotion”.
The songs are better too: In Mary Poppins, each song is an excuse to do a song. Granted, Julie Andrews is a better singer than Angela Langsbury but Angela’s damned good nonetheless (she’s good enough to sing Sondheim scores) and Angela is able to get a range of emotions both acted and sung far beyond anything Julie’s ever portrayed on the screen. The big climax of Mary Poppins features…um…David Tomilson telling a joke to a badly made up Dick Van Dyke. The big climax of B&B features a kick-ass battle of revanants and spectral minions versus Nazis. In Mary Poppins? There’s penguins who soft shoe. In B&B, there’s the menace of the Nazis, the menace of the King from the island of Naboomboo(sp), the menace of Roddy McDowell who plays a subtley creepy minister. An actual plot where there’s rising action, climax, falling action, character development, excitement menace, etc. And I’m including the Black Hole when I say that)įor one thing, B&B has a plot. (And anything was better than Pete’s Dragon. In every way (except arguably one) it’s better than Mary Poppins. Of the three (Pete’s Dragon was the third, but it’s too pathetic to mention except by way of dismissal: “Razzle Dazzle Day”? Please) major live action/animated mix movies that Disney did between 1960-1980, only one is a truly spectacular film in all respects.
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