If I had to sum it up in one word? Forgetable.

How can something that looks so nice be so utterly devoid of substance? I think Disney really dropped the ball here. They had a real chance to make an original story that was fun for everyone but instead they tried so hard to try to catch the original's magic that they ultimately fall flat on their face.

This movie had it all going for it: Disney money, A good cast including decent child actors and the benefit of modern effects. And all get used to an extent but not in the correct ways. Emily makes a good enough job as Poppins but for some reason in this film she upped the mean as well as the gaslighting factors that almost make her kinda unlikable (I mean, she didn't even say goodbye). Jack is Bert again, Michael is George again and Jane is Winifred lite. You see what I'm getting at right? Even the musical numbers are basically equivalents to the original movie: The Poppins first showcase to the kids song, the Poppins showoff in an animated scenario song, the song after she gaslights the kids song, the kooky house with a kooky owner song, the huge 'why is this song and dance with street strangers so long?' song, the deus ex machina song and the 'we're all ok now' song. The big problem this time is that most (to not say all) of the songs are not memorable at all.

I think what bothered me the most is that the story is supossed to be about saving Michael and trying to remind him what it's like to be a kid again but guess what? That doesn't even happen, most of the time you get Poppins interacting with the kids and Michael is nowhere close, then he snipes at the kids a bit. Rinse and repeat a couple of times, then he cries a bit and then "oh my god, you guys are not liars after all I'm all fine now!" queue resolution. So the Michael arc doesn't really happen in a satisfactory manner in my opinion. Also, I can't forget to mention the complete unessesary addition of some random mustache twirling villain type that's just jarring for the type of movie that this is supossed to be and even weirder when they dragged him into the porcelain sequence for no actual reason. No motive no real threat, he was just kinda 'there' then got deus ex'd out.

All in all, an ok but fairly forgettable sequel that tries to capture lightning in a bottle a second time but instead just catches a bit of the thunder. Looks really nice but not really much going under the hood. 6.5/10