In reply to: JA reportedly has voice troubles and has difficulty singing posted by El Kabong
And Emily Blunt seems, in general, slightly colder than Julie Andrews. (I kept wondering if Emily Mortimer, who played the adult Jane, would've been a better choice.) Lin Manuel Miranda is a song-and-dance master, but his face isn't anywhere near as expressive as Dick Van Dyke's. The movie also seemed to have a different "look," with more diffused colors around the house, etc.
The kids were good actors though. And Firth and Whishaw were great.
I think she's an incredible actress, but I agree that she was a little too cold. Andrews's version was vain and aloof but there was a cheeriness too. I also didn't like Blunt's voice in the movie, it felt too much like a conscious actorly choice.
It's probably just a really hard thing to step in to such an iconic role.
I also thought Whishaw was fantastic.