Mary Poppins Remake? Hell no...

With this post, I may reveal myself to be just as much of a fuddy-duddy as the former mayor of Vancouver.



That's fine. I don't care.



But the news that Disney, fresh off of promising us a new Star Wars movie every year from now until the end of time, has decided to dust off all their old classics and remake them, beginning with Mary Poppins. Directed by Rob Marshall, a former choreographer who has proven, thanks to Memoirs of a Geisha and the last Pirates of the Caribbean instalment, that he knows how to shove sausage in a machine, shine it up, and make it look good. So he has two choices, as I see it:



1) Offer up a flashy, but totally listless shot-by-shot remake, which will be boring.



2) Try to "explain" the magic of the original (Mary's mother always yelled at her, Bert's undiagnosed ADHD). Which. Will. Be. A. Total. Disaster.



MTMG

Holy Cow, Man!

For anyone who ever thought that we in Canada just boringly watched the American cultural upheaval from the outside looking in, witness Vancouver mayor Tom Campbell doing his best impression of a southern Baptist. Full disclosure: I was born in 1971, but, student of pop culture that I am, this is utterly fascinating. I'll even give him a pass on his use of the word retarded, since that was the unfortunate term in use at that time. Truth be told, it was still in use as I was entering school in the mid-1970's. But as a counterculture statement, it is interesting.



MTMG