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As a lifelong fan of the original 1964 masterpiece, I found this movie very hard to watch. While the performances are all exceptional and the details are lovely, the melodies bear almost no resemblance to the score and songs from the first movie and therefore strike no nostalgic tones. It doesn’t feel like a sequel or a continuation of the story at all, which was very disappointing to me personally. It would have been quite welcome to hear such melodies as Feed the Birds, Sister Suffragette, Jolly Holiday, Spoonful of Sugar and Chim Chim Cheree reworked into new songs. Dick Van Dyke pulls out the movie’s only superior reference to the original film; however, he fails to complete the line and it is disappointing. It might have been downright delightful to learn that some in world now populated by leeries instead of chimney sweeps still “love to laugh.” And, I haven’t even mentioned the lack of significant historical context that made the original film such an important movie at the time In was released in that it addressed gender roles and women’s suffrage. Well, at least there’s a kite (and some other props), even if that unforgettable song is altogether absent as well.