This film just made me fall in love with Walt Disney and his madness all over again. This film tells the story of how Walt Disney came across the story of Mary Poppins and convinces P.L.Travers to allow him the rights to her book in order for him to create his classic 'Mary Poppins'. Obviously we all know how it ends but this film does an amazing job at showing us the 20 year (yes, it was that long) struggle it took Disney to retrieve the rights to make the Classic we know today.First of all, Tom Hanks plays Walt Disney which to me is just perfection (my two favorite famous people smooshed into one and making perfection) and manages to capture Disney's madness and childlike wonder in this wonderful feel good film. Also, Emma Thompson does an amazing job playing P.L.Travers, which you don't realise until the end credits where you hear the actual recordings of Travers in her meetings with the writers of 'Mary Poppins'. These two actors are both amazing on there own but together with their equally exquisite portrayals of their characters make for a perfect performance all the way through this film.
This film was mostly filmed at in southern California, especially at Disney Studios in Burbank and Disney Land California (which would have been the only Disney land open at the time in which the movie was set). I think this was a nice touch as it added to the authenticity of the film put across by the performance of the actors.
Overall, this film was just so heart warming I think my heart may have actually melted a little bit. It gave a different view of the 'Mary Poppins' film and allowed you to see it in a similar light to how Travers may have seen it (with more love for the film than she had). It is very hard for me to say anything negative about this film as it had such a magical mesmerising effect on me. Just five stars all round for me, it lived up to my expectations of it, I never lost interest and even now I feel as though I need to re-watch it again and again on repeat for days.