Saving Mr Banks Review

Now i haven't really liked director John Lee Hancocks previous works. None of them really clicked with me and though the bright side was OK it didn't deserve Oscar nominations for gods sake.

But I am only too happy to say that his new film Saving Mr Banks is fantastic and not only the best film he has ever made but is one of my favorites of the year (A list of my favorites will be out January some time). The film follows the story of how Walt Disney (played Perfectly by Tom Hanks) managed to secure the film rights to the book Marry Poppins from it author Mrs Travers (Played in an award worthy performance by the allays great Emma Thompson). On the way to giving the film rights to Disney we meet the films song writers the Sherman brothers, the films script writer Don Dagradi and Mrs Travers friendly driver (played by Paul Giamatti)

What u liked especially about this film is the performances. Every single person in this movie brings the absolute best and its hard to single out a specific person who was the best as everyone is do great. Of course Emma Thomson is great, she does a great job with what could be considered at first as a two dimensional character and makes P L Travers understandable but most importantly very entertaining. Tom hanks though he is just being Tom Hanks is great as Walt bringing a sense of realism and compassion to him. The three who play the Films song writers and script author all do a great job too. But the two actors who i feel are getting the least amount of attention from critics are Colin Farrel and Paul Giamatti. Both are fantastic providing more realistic less larger than life characters and there amazing, Especially Paul Giamatti who i would love to see get some awards buzz for his role as he is genuinely flawless as the down to earth Driver who just wants to see the good in everything.

My only criticism is if you don't like Marry Poppins (which i do) i don't think you will enjoy this movie as much as i did. Over than that i cant see anything else that i didn't at least like in this film.

Its a genuine shame that this film isn't getting any awards buzz as it totally deserves it .

Saving Mr Banks is a 10/10