'Saving Mr. Banks' is a Special Film
For a Disney fanatic, Saving Mr. Banks is a special film. For someone who loves Mary Poppins, the film is even better.
You may be forgiven if you think this film is about how Walt Disney got the rights to Mary Poppins. Just like Walt Disney thought that Mary Poppins was about the nanny saving the children, you will be missing something if you don’t see what the film is actually about.
Saving Mr. Banks is clearly the best film of the year. Every actor is at the top of his or her game, and the situation is so extraordinarily portrayed that the actors become the people that they are playing. Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks with the Walt Disney cough, Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman and B.J. Novak who play the Sherman brothers – there are no flawed performances.
Colin Farrell was a beautiful surprise as P.L. Travers' father. He plays it with such ease and caring that the tragic flaw that Travers Goff is forced to indulge in makes his bright character and his love for his daughter all the more loving and saddening at the same time.
The movie starts in the right way. It starts with an opening that looks like it may have been used in the 1960s. You will want to be sure to stay through the end for the historical photos and tape recordings of the actual P.L. Travers.
There will be those who think that this film is only for those who love Walt or Mary Poppins, but anyone who is interested in the story of a man and his daughter or American culture will find this film engrossing. This is one of those few films that tell more about life than many documentaries.
Take a journey back in time and see who P.L. Travers really was. See Saving Mr. Banks.
Saving Mr. Banks opens in limited engagement on Dec. 13 and in wide release on Dec. 20.
You may be forgiven if you think this film is about how Walt Disney got the rights to Mary Poppins. Just like Walt Disney thought that Mary Poppins was about the nanny saving the children, you will be missing something if you don’t see what the film is actually about.
Saving Mr. Banks is clearly the best film of the year. Every actor is at the top of his or her game, and the situation is so extraordinarily portrayed that the actors become the people that they are playing. Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks with the Walt Disney cough, Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman and B.J. Novak who play the Sherman brothers – there are no flawed performances.
Colin Farrell was a beautiful surprise as P.L. Travers' father. He plays it with such ease and caring that the tragic flaw that Travers Goff is forced to indulge in makes his bright character and his love for his daughter all the more loving and saddening at the same time.
The movie starts in the right way. It starts with an opening that looks like it may have been used in the 1960s. You will want to be sure to stay through the end for the historical photos and tape recordings of the actual P.L. Travers.
There will be those who think that this film is only for those who love Walt or Mary Poppins, but anyone who is interested in the story of a man and his daughter or American culture will find this film engrossing. This is one of those few films that tell more about life than many documentaries.
Take a journey back in time and see who P.L. Travers really was. See Saving Mr. Banks.
Saving Mr. Banks opens in limited engagement on Dec. 13 and in wide release on Dec. 20.
See Romney's Review of Saving Mr. Banks