With 2019 already set as the year for Disney to go
full-force in reviving its most beloved stories, today’s film is going to
ultimately serve as the bar for what follows. No, this isn’t a straight-up
remake of the 1964 original, but with how it’s presented, it might as well be:
It’s got pretty much everything I remember from before. The colourful
soundtrack full of whimsy-tinged jazz and swing, the respectably subtle
lyricism in front of it that helps build the story’s bigger points, an emphasis
on reconnecting with the inner child and finding joy in stuff and nonsense, an
American doing an obvious Mockney accent; it all fits.
