Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

Elevator Pitch

Twenty-five years after the Banks family’s original problems, the former children now adults are in trouble. Michael, a widower with three children, has tenuous employment in the bank and Jane, his sister is campaigning for worker’s security. They have no money and are about to be evicted from the family home, when magically on the tail of a kite Mary Poppins decends to earth and begins to take charge.

Content

There is a bit of a set up for the plot, which is the progress towards the eviction by the evil bank manager, but mostly set pieces which seem to have little relationship with each other, or the aforesaid plot. The are random songs sung by the cast and singing and dancing in the imaginative worlds apparently prompted by the presence of the magical nanny, and one extended singing and dancing number by a platoon of lamplighters.