Mary Poppins Themes

Jane and Michael probably aren't going to end up writing angry tell-all biographies about their evil mom and dad…because Mr. and Mrs. Banks are both pretty sound, parenting-wise. But the credit g...

Mr. Banks is stuck in a sad, lonely prison: the bank where he works. And the worst part is—he thinks he enjoys it. The bank has colored everything else in his life, until he thinks that all you n...

Even though Mary Poppins makes the kids happy through extreme methods—leading them into a cartoon world, for instance—the movie's actual message is that happiness doesn't cost too much. In the...

Mary Poppins blows minds for a living: she leads the kids into trippy animated worlds, uses magic to clean up the nursery, and has an uncle who floats when he laughs. Oh, and she flies. Naturally,...

Mary Poppins drops a lot of wisdom on Jane and Michael—and on Mr. Banks—throughout the movie. So does Bert. How did the gain all this knowledge and wisdom? No one knows. Their backgrounds are e...