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Mary Poppins Returns doesn\u2019t quite achieve lift-off. The sequel, which comes 54 years after the original film, is set in 1930s London. The backdrop is the Great Depression but here it is labeled the Great Slump \u2013 maybe the word depression is too depressing for Disney.

It\u2019s 25 years after the events of the original so the Banks children, Michael and Jane, who were the focus of the first film, have grown up.