I too absolutely dislike this movie. Dick Van Dyke is at best an overblown "Ham", his attempt at an English accent a horrible, laughable failure. Most of the other characters are over acted, the entire thing coming off as a live action cartoon, a cartoon which thinks very highly of itself in spite of how bad it actually is.

I don't like either of the two kids, I remember thinking them "creepy" when I saw the Gnome Mobile as a kid.

HowEVER...... I DO very much like one song from Mary Poppins. A Spoonful of Sugar Makes the Medicine go down.... My Mother used to sing that whenever we had colds and needed medicine. It became a little ritual within the family and yes, if our throats weren't too terribly sore, we'd get the spoonful of sugar as well.