SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Jan Newson This is a lovely story with lots of fun and some special effects. Loved the the spiv-like Uncle Phil and kids, especially cousin Cyril (the young actor plays a great part). The location of the farm looks great too, unless it's a set!Unfortunately there was something wrong with the (over) acting of the woman playing the children's mother. I couldn't put my finger on it. Her voice and acting wasn't quite right. When I was told she was American that explained it. Maybe if she'd been cast as an American (no reason why not) she would have sounded more natural.Otherwise a lovely story and good, fun film

Neddy Merrill Emma Thompson inhabits a league of premier global female film stars including Juliet Binoche, Tilda Swinton, and the foremost among them, Meryl Streep. So how bad could a children?s film written by and starring her be? Surprisingly awful, it turns out. Nanny McPhee is a long series of lame excrement jokes, unimaginative plot devices and by-the-numbers vignettes of bad behavior followed by redemption. Nanny McPhee -the magical Super Nanny and Mary Poppins rip-off ?begins by teaching 5 quarrelling children the first of 5 lessons using physical torture to get them to stop the fisticuffs. At least these scenes broke up the initial first fifteen minutes of uninterrupted references to poop from various sources. After these enhanced interrogation techniques, McPhee uses her magical stick to call into being stupid swimming piglets, flying motorcycles with sidecars and to gain access to the halls of WWII power. The story line defaults back to magical intervention to get the children to behave instead of taking the musical cue from Poppins and using clever psychology and dance numbers. Gyllenhaal is marshmallow as a mother, Thompson doesn?t give herself any good lines and the kids are non-descript with the exception of the unlikely named Eros Vlahos who is fun to watch as snooty Cyril. In short, wait for Thompson to return to a dramatic or classical role where her acting chops are put to good use.

Anna Kreiss I sat down to watch this movie with my 7-year-old brother not knowing what to expect having not seen the first "Nanny McPhee." I was surprised about how brilliant this film turned out to be, even though watching it was my decision. For those who are unfamiliar, this movie is about a woman named Isabel Green. She lives with her three children, and her husband is off fighting in a war. When the Greens' two cousins, the Grays, come for a visit, the five children start causing trouble for Isabel. Who is the one to fix this problem? Nanny McPhee.With the amazing cast and beautiful acting, I thought this movie was fantastic. It had the right amount of humor and magic to make everything work. During the more serious scenes (mainly the scene with Norman and Cyril after they receive the telegram), I felt the same emotions as the characters. Though I enjoyed all the characters and cast members, there are a few that stood out to me. Eros Vlahos and Asa Butterfield as Cyril Gray and Norman Green. These two young actors stole the show at most parts! Eros is a great comedy actor, and made me laugh several times. Asa was funny as well, but it was the emotion that he added to the character that made him stand out. Well done to these two boys.I give this movie an 9/10. The ONLY reason I'm not giving it a full 10/10 is because I think that some things could've been explained just a little better (the only instance I can think of at the moment is when the Greens got the telegram from the war office. I knew what it meant, but I'm not sure if my brother did. Other younger viewers might not understand right away. It is discussed again later on, of course). Other than that, I think this movie was brilliantly made and cast and everything. I would completely recommend this movie to anyone; especially anyone who loves funny, clever, and heartwarming movies.

Jackson Booth-Millard I saw the trailer for this sequel to the kids film based on the children's stories, and to me it looked like it was going to be lame, but then I saw the critics rating ti quite high, so I watched it. Basically young Isabel Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal) lives on her family farm with her three troublesome children, Norman (Asa Butterfield), Megsie (Lil Woods) and Vincent (Oscar Steer), and she also runs a village shop with Mrs. Docherty (Dame Maggie Smith). Sent from London to live on the farm, I guess because of the war, are the children's spoilt cousins, the Grays, Cyril (Eros Vlahos) and Celia (Rosie Taylor-Ritson), and the misbehaving only gets worse for Isabel. So in comes Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) to teach the children the valuable lessons to behaving well and learning to get on with each other. The first lesson is to stop fighting each other, which she does by making them all hit themselves against their will, and this makes a wart disappear. The next lesson is to share with each other, i.e. beds, and she makes them sleep next to the animals they name they would rather be sharing with, including a pig and a baby elephant, and this makes her other wart disappear. While learning these lesson, the mean Phil Green (Rhys Ifans) is trying to buy the farm off Isabel, since her husband Rory (Ewan McGregor) has been fighting in the war so long, but she won't give in. The children's third lesson appears when Nanny McPhee makes all the pigs go wild and try escape, and they must learn to work together to catch and sell them to Farmer Macreadie (Bill Bailey), they do and her unibrow disappears. Going on a picnic, Isabel receives the news that Rory has been killed in action, which Norman does not believe, so Nanny McPhee takes him and Vincent to the war office to confirm this, while Isabel is tempted to sell the farm to Phil. Norman confirms from Vincent's father, Lord Gray (Ralph Fiennes), that his father is only missing in action and the letter was forged by Phil, who gets handcuffed to a rail in the house. A big problem pops up when a bomb is dropped from the sky, due to a pilot sneezing on the trigger, and the children work together to defuse it, another lesson learnt and Nanny McPhee's hair goes from grey to brown. In the end, the final lesson of having faith is learnt when Rory comes home alive and well, and Nanny McPhee with her smaller nose walks away as they want her but no longer need her. Also starring Sinead Matthews as Miss Topsey, Katy Brand as Miss Turvey, Nonso Anozie as Sergeant Jeffreys, 'Allo 'Allo's Sam Kelly as Mr. Docherty and Plus One's Daniel Mays as Blenkinsop. Once again Thompson does well as the magical almost anti Mary Poppins, and Gyllenhaal sports a pretty good English accent, there was a tiny part thinking it is almost the same film again, but it is a much more interesting film and the kids will love it, a worthwhile period fantasy adventure. Good!