Emily Blunt going to perform an antique role

With "Mary Poppins' return", Disney manages a pre-Christmas touchdown in the hearts: The continuation of the musical classic celebrates the fantastic with wit, emotion and style awareness.

Honestly, children - do you really want the RTL super-nanny with a warning look and a quiet staircase? For the true super-nanny is called Mary Poppins.

She has returned, wearing polka dots on the blouse collar, talking with the umbrella pommel and conjuring underwater tales with giggling penguins in the bathtub. And out of the silent staircase she makes a loud one in no time. A show staircase that leads into a glittering circus world whose entrance, logically hidden in the cracked bowl on the mantelpiece.

The fact that 2018 was a good year for Emily Blunt was recently confirmed by the American Actors' Union: at its prestigious awards, the SAG Awards, the Briton was nominated not twice, but twice. Once for the horror thriller "A Quiet Place", in which she was shown half a year under the direction and side of her husband John Krasinski, and once for "Mary Poppins' return" (in the cinema from 20.12.), In which she now follows in the footsteps of Julie Andrews in a very super cali fragility exposition. We met the 35-year-old, who has the two daughters Hazel and Violet with Krasinski, in her adopted New York for an interview.

Mary Poppins comes only when needed. This is more often the case in the books of PL Travers, but in the cinema, she has only once lived in Kirschbaumweg 17, around 1910around. Mother Banks was then Suffragette, her husband at the bank. George Banks has to get softer, Mary makes sure. Meanwhile, the Depression has hit London, and the Banks children are on their own; only they are no longer children. So things are at the beginning of "Mary Poppins' return": Michael (Ben Whishaw) is a young widower with three small children, his sister Jane (Emily Mortimer) is involved in the labor movement. Michael is an artist and lives in the house of his long-dead parents. But he has not paid the mortgage, and if he does not raise money until Friday, the house will be evicted.

The most magical nanny of all has done a thorough job, she has educated two dreamers who have little to oppose malice and hardship. The villain, whom they do not even recognize as such, is the acting bank director (Colin Firth), who wants to grab the house in Kirschbaumweg under the nail. Everything could end horribly. But if Mary Poppins is really needed, she will come too.

So it is, the pretty nanny: Too colorful for purists, too retro for modernists, too opulent for minimalists and too cheesy for cynics. The value warden Disney has made a second time (and not again with the blessing of 1996 Poppins inventor PL Travers) to an adaptation of the novels and the 1964 resulting musical a sequel, which is in no way inferior to the original.