I don't know if I needed to pay for the import, nor do I know if its worth 12 bucks a head, but at the same time its certainly worth a rental or a viewing on cable and had I waited for a US release I don't think I would have minded.
Definitely worth a look if for no other reasons that the film seems to have a neat visual sense that riffs on well know pictures such as Pink Floyd Album covers I didn't see the first film, but I will now - this one is terrific.
The story is good, the script is great fun, and all the cast including all the children are excellent, with kudos to Maggie Gyllenhaal - if I hadn't known, I would never have guessed that she isn't English. The period feel is good and the effects are satisfactory. Direction is also good. But I think much of the credit must go to Emma Thompson for the screenplay - how fatally a bad screenplay destroys a film, and how well a good screenplay serves it!
HotToastyRag 22 March Wouldn't Emma Thompson have made a wonderful Mary Poppins? Unfortunately, she didn't get picked for the remake, but hopefully she had the last laugh. Not only did she get to play P. Travers in Saving Mr. Banks, but years earlier, she got to write and star in her own magical nanny series: Nanny McPhee. This nanny gets blown in by the wind, has a cane instead of an umbrella, a talking raven, a stern demeanor that secretly builds character, and leaves just when the family wants her to stay.
Sound familiar? The big difference between the two magical nannies is their appearance. Mary Poppins is practically perfect in every way, and Nanny McPhee is hideous, who gets prettier when the children's insides get prettier. I've seen both Nanny McPhee movies, and I liked the sequel better.
I'm a huge Maggie Gyllenhaal fan, and not only does she look absolutely gorgeous, but she gives a wonderful performance. She's holding down the fort during WWII with her three kids and her struggling country farm. Her brother-in-law, Rhys Ifans, is in debt to the mob and is constantly trying to talk Maggie into selling her share of the farm.
Because of the bomb threat in London, the family's rich, spoiled cousins are sent to stay with Maggie and her children, but they don't get along. Nanny McPhee to the rescue! Nanny McPhee Returns was unexpectedly hilarious and unexpectedly touching. From watching pigs do synchronized swimming to the tongue-in-cheek "Enemy Plane" scenario, I laughed far more than I'd expected.
In one scene that brings the children closer together, they rescue the runaway piglets from the farm before the buyer appears, but Rosie found and put on Maggie's wedding dress for the day before the chaos because it was the nicest outfit she could find.
The gown covered in mud and the veil torn to shreds, Maggie's heartbroken - especially because her husband hasn't written from the front in months. Instead of yelling, crying, or scolding, she merely smiles and plans a picnic to celebrate their rescue of the pigs.
She hugs and kisses the kids, and consequently, the audience mops up their tears with their handkerchiefs. If you keep your eyes open, you'll see Maggie Smith as Maggie G's dotty employer.
It's a very silly part, but it's still funny. Ralph Fiennes plays the rich cousins' father for a few minutes, and Ewan McGregor is the patriarch fighting in the war, seen for a few seconds in a flashback. For my fellow saps, pop this one in for a great matinee day. DLM Warning: If you suffer from vertigo or dizzy spells, like my mom does, this movie might not be your friend.
The very first thirty seconds of the film are of a staircase spinning around in a circle, and that will make you sick. In other words, "Don't Look, Mom! Emma Thompson is an artist of s many gifts that she defies categorization. In addition to being one of our best actresses of the day, she is also a very fine writer and not at all afraid of jumping into 'family movies' that bundle fun as well as sage advice.
Nanny McPhee appears as a grotesquely ugly woman who arrives in households besotted with potential disasters and in the course of her manipulations of the microcosm that initiated the problems she has a sense of magic in reversing the behavior patterns of children and adults to bring about a happy ending to a crisis waiting to happen. This trip finds her visiting the farm of Isabel Green Maggie Gyllenhaal whose husband Ewan McGregor is off at war, leaving the care of the three children and the farm and life in general in her hands.
Add to that the constant interference of Isabel's pestering brother-in-law Rhys Ifans and a battery of spoiled cousins and the madness of a misplaced bomb form the sky and Nanny has her hands full teaching the children not only how to cope but also how to behave in a manner that aids Isabel's survival.
Maggie Smith joins this irrepressible cast and in the end it is difficult to judge what entertains most - the madness or the glee. Deep it is not, but it is one of those films you can slip into the telly and enjoy as much as an adult as the youngsters adore it. Fantasy, a bit of family drama, and a lot of fine lessons make this a fluffy movie nearly everyone can enjoy.
Grady Harp. It's only when you need her and not want her, that she appears, and only when you want her but no longer need her, does she go away. It's been 5 years since the first Nanny McPhee film burst onto the silver screen, and now a second film comes at a time during the school holidays to provide the little ones some entertaining, family friendly fare with good moral messages to boot.
Emma Thompson reprises her role as the magical nanny with facial disfigurements that disappear one at a time, each time she imparts values to children, and here she has 5 to teach the little ones to behave. Like its predecessor, Nanny McPhee appears to assist Maggie Gyllenhaal's Mrs Green, a war time wife whose husband Ewan McGregor has been off to war and has only corresponded back home through snail mail.
Being the current breadwinner and finding great difficulty in controlling her children Vincent Oscar Steer , Norman Asa Butterfield and Megsie Lil Woods , her problems compound when they are joined by their cousins Cyril Eros Vlahos and Celia Rose Taylor-Ritson who hail from the city, and a clash of attitudes spell even more trouble for the harried Mrs Green.
But not if Nanny McPhee can help it, and does so in a jiffy. Set mostly in and around the Green farm which the children's uncle Phil Rhys Ifans as chief baddie who tries hard to get Mrs Green to sell half her ownership so as to bail him out of gambling debts, McPhee gets to impart lessons learnt through manufactured incidents on the farm and allows her magic to be weaved even on piglets, which will probably delight the younger audience as they do strange things like climbing trees and synchronized swimming.
In some ways, the lessons here somehow paled from the earlier film, and the last lesson happened more like a matter of fact rather than one properly planned out, though they do enough to allow some nifty special effects laden scenes to be played out. The children in the film brought about fine performances and are able to hold their own against the likes of Maggie Gyllenhaal, and even the cameos of McGregor and especially Ralph Fiennes, who boomed with much stature as Lord Gray of the War Office and in that short scene, provided enough pathos and a key plot element as to why the Green's cousins came to live with them on the farm.
Comedy came in the form of Maggie Smith's senile Mrs Docherty, though it was a mix of hits and misses with the latter taking unfortunate dominance. I suppose Nanny McPhee can be an enduring franchise if the younger audience embrace it as the less flashier franchise series of say, Harry Potter and even Twilight.
After all, it has good moral lessons to impart, and has a feel good element about it, on one hand being light weight in treatment, yet packing some punch in its messages. Stay tuned during the end credits too for an animated sequence that's too beautifully done to miss, and for the sharp eyed viewer, let's see if you can spot a moment of goof in the film that has something to do with the film being flipped left to right.
Recommended for children, and adults alike. Emma Thompson takes us back to the colourful world of Nanny McPhee. This time Nanny McPhee has a mission with a new family. I loved the first movie. Not only was it a refreshing tribute to classics like Mary Poppins, but it had heart and magic and its world looked surreal, a splendid movie for the entire family. Here too the world is just as colourful and surreal and looks like a fun place.
Yes, even Isabel's muddy farm looks like an enjoyable place to live at. The creativity in writing and art direction amuses me, for example, watching those piglets lying in the scratch machine was cute and hilarious.
The new animal characters, especially the baby elephant, are a delight. The humour works very well as it had me laughing out loud on various occasions. However, unlike in the first movie, the story here felt rushed and there were some inconsistencies. The bomb sequence, as entertaining as it was, wasn't necessary and it only distracted from the main story.
The child actors here are competent but their counterparts in the first film performed better. While the special effects here are very good they didn't appear as authentic. Emma Thompson reprises the title role and she does a fine job.
She mostly takes the backseat while letting the other actors perform. Maggie Gyllenhaal shows a knack for comedy and her English accent sounds authentic. Maggie Smith is a riot. Rhys Ifans does well as the greedy uncle. I was smiling after it finished watch it through the closing credits as there's a very cute surprise. Nanny McPhee is back with basically the same story as before. She's out to help a mom control her 3 kids and their 2 cousins. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays the mom Isabel and pulled off the British accent and plays the overwhelmed mom role quite well.
Nanny McPhee enters the picture and out to teach the children 5 lessons to make them better children and more respectful. I thought the tree climbing pig and synchronized swimming pigs were very cute. I wish more silly animals like that had been in the movie.
This movie is More Like This. Coming Soon. The Sea Beast. A legendary sea monster hunter's life is turned upside down when a young girl stows away on his ship and befriends the most dangerous beast of them all. A cartoonist in Rome with his armadillo-for-a-conscience reflects on his path in life and a would-be love as he and his friends travel outside the city. With nothing else on hand, Nanny McPhee comes to the rescue to teach the children five lessons that would change their behavior forever.
From flying motorcycles to swimming pigs, "Nanny McPhee Returns" was still able to keep the magic pumping up from the first movie. This movie has more magical things than the first movie. But, the first movie has a stricter Nanny McPhee than the first one and the first one I think gives Nanny McPhee a harder job to handle them rather than handling the kids in the second movie.
Emma Thompson who previously portrayed Professor Trewlawney from the "Harry Potter" series denied to reprise her role in the final installments and instead chose to reprise "Nanny McPhee" back to the screen. She was still able to repeat her solemn character in this movie. Although Thompson was a bit less in depth on her acting, her acting can still be praised. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays the troubled mother who has been encountering endless problems in her life.
Here, she uses British accents on her lines and her acting was perfect. Docherty who is a friend of Mrs. Green, the troubled mother. She plays in more of a funnier role than her previous ones and her acting was great, brilliant. There's nothing wrong with the acting. The special effects, the script and the cinematography were all stunning. The flying pigs scene was breathtaking and the script was perfectly written.
The cinematography was not a problem at all. They were all mesmerizing. In all, "Nanny McPhee Returns" is a good family adventure. It's still able to recreate the magic of the first film. It was brilliant and I recommend this to all families. I guarantee that most kids who see this film will try to see this film again. I had no regret watching this film. Overall, this movie gets 7 stars out of There's another overwhelmed, financially strapped single parent who needs help -- in this case played by Maggie Gyllenhaal, whose husband Ewan McGregor, with three minutes of screen time is off fighting the war.
There's another mysterious voice, advising Gyllenhaal that "the person you need is Nanny McPhee. And, once she arrives, there are five more lessons for Nanny to impart to the children: stop fighting, share nicely, help one another, be brave and have faith. Each lesson not only brings the children a little closer to behaving like human beings, but, once learned, each also makes one of Nanny's hideous facial features -- the nose, the mole, the snaggle tooth, the unibrow -- magically disappear.
Aside from the setting and the grubby children involved, precious little is different from the last time Nanny came wielding her spark-spewing walking stick. That fact appears to have occurred to Thompson -- who, in addition to starring, wrote the script for "Nanny McPhee Returns" -- but only after the first 45 minutes or so.
That leaves her scrambling to mix things up, resulting in a messy narrative that rockets all over the place the longer the movie goes on.
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