The first full trailer for Mary Poppins Returns has landed, and it looks like it was worth the 54-year wait.
Emily Blunt sings (briefly), Lin-Manuel Miranda channels his inner Dick Van Dyke and the real Dick Van Dyke shows up as a table-dancer – with the trailer giving us our first proper look at some of the film’s big magical showstoppers.
Musical numbers set on the face of Big Ben’s clock, around foggy London lampposts and deep under the sea look set to take on the 1968 Disney film’s classic set-pieces – with some sequences mixing traditional 2D animation with live action, just like the original. And yes, we even get a quick glimpse of the first film’s cartoon dancing penguins.
Blunt stars as the magical nanny who returns to visit the now grown-up Banks children (Emily Mortimer and Ben Whishaw) to help them with their own kids. Blunt sports a much plummier accent than Julie Andrews and her Poppins seems to have a bit of a stern edge (perhaps closer to the Poppins of P.L. Travers’ novel), but it still looks like there’s plenty of spoonfuls of sugar to go around in Rob Marshall’s lavish sequel.
Miranda plays Jack the lamplighter (the new Bert the chimney sweep) and co-stars with pretty much everyone who loved the original and wanted a cameo – including Meryl Streep as Mary’s cousin, Colin Firth as Wishaw’s boss, and Angela Lansbury as some kind of balloon woman (who probably sings a song about buying a balloon, tuppence a bunch).
Mary Poppins Returns opens on December 19th.