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Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Python Hyena Nanny McPhee (2005): Dir: Kirk Jones / Cast: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Angela Launsbury, Kelly MacDonald, Imelda Stauton: Revolting family film that plays like an ugly version of Mary Poppins. It addresses authority while never explaining anything. After the umpteenth nanny leaves a widowed father is met with a mysterious nanny who will whip his misbehaving children into shape. Like Poppins, this nanny isn't given any background but at least Mary Poppins had an engaging personality. McPhee has two warts and a buck tooth that seemingly disappear as the children progress, and she seems to appear at will without explanation. Directed by Kirk Jones with fine visual elements, but the screenplay contains none of the magic or imaginative writing of Mary Poppins. Emma Thompson is a fine talent but McPhee is perhaps too much of a mystery. Colin Firth plays the typical absent father who will learn to have time for the children. He also seems to be stupid enough to marry the first woman who glances his way. Angela Launsbury plays an evil relative with greedy intentions. She dealt with similar material in the magical Bedknobs and Broomsticks where she played a witch in charge of three children. Kelly MacDonald plays a maid who will obviously end up with Firth. Perhaps if he used birth control he wouldn't overpopulate. Score: 3 / 10

valadas This movies starts and develops at first almost like an awkward and pale remake of THE SOUND OF MUSIC (minus the music and plus the magic an a few more farcical than funny gags). After a mediocre and not very original development with a few not very funny gags the last scenes save the movie from a negative mark. In fact we begin to see a few funnier gags (namely the cream tart battle scenes at the wedding ceremony) and some scenes of poetical and romantic meaning. Emma Thompson makes a more or less good character as the Nanny and her surprising transformation along the movie till the final outcome is very meaningful even in the general context of the story. This movie begins as mediocre and ends up as passable after all.

michael thompson We are living in an age of unruly behaviour from both children and adults alike, we have created by stealth, an unruly, undisciplined Society.Nanny Mcfee is the Nanny State we all need, because freedom and choice, without responsibility, is how we are now.But we don't want to believe we need a Nanny State, because we have freedom to do what we want, when we want, and so have our offspring.Our consumerism this past 30 odd years has spawned adults who are nothing more than infantile brats who have kept the chain going, and no politician can stop this because it would be seen as dictatorship.So freedom and choice is what we have, so much so that disciplining our young people has been thrown to the wind.But we refuse to acknowledge our little darlings are the products of us all, and so and it goes on and on.And this refusal is our greatest downfall, if only we could see it, and had the guts to do something about it.When you watch Nanny McFee, read between the lines. It is much more than just another Mary Poppins.

alma I really really had a good time watching this film, just exactly what I needed to escape a bit exactly what movies used to be when I was a child. Some will say it's way too predictable but some It's not a movie aiming at delivering a high level of suspense. It's a good tale with some wise moments. I especially like the parts when Nanny McPhee let the children take their own decisions and warn them about the consequences. I personally find this in real life to be an extraordinary way of dealing with children. The filming and set are beautiful (though I found the colors way too loud) and some moments are really funny exactly the sort of things children candidly laugh at (tricks played by the children, food fight). The thing I didn't like so much is that the relationship between Mr Brown and Evangeline is not really developed in the first part of the movie. He doesn't even seem to show any interest in her whatsoever. Even though we know from the start they'll get married at the end, it's kind of abrupt when they declare their love to each other. Small children will like this film as well as any grown up who's got a good dose of nostalgia and who kept one's child's spirit.