areatw Whilst 'Nanny McPhee' is obviously made for and promoted as a kids film, it is certainly entertaining and witty enough to be enjoyed by adults too.The star of the show is of course Emma Thompson, who delivers an exceptional performance as Nanny McPhee. You could tell she was enjoying herself in the role and was a joy to watch on screen. I doubt anybody could have done a better job.As a family comedy/fantasy movie, 'Nanny McPhee' is pretty good. It will certainly please younger viewers whilst also keeping older ones entertained.

g-bodyl I never thought much about seeing this film, but I finally got a chance to the other night and I'm glad I did. While turned off by the previews at first, only after I watched this film did I realize what a very good film it is, both for adults and children. There are some silly moments here, but as British comedy/fantasy, this film turns out to be much more fun and clever. I would even go as far to say that this movie is magical and I say that thanks to a very strong ending.Kirk Jone's film is about a recently-widowed father who has misbehaved children and they chase out any nanny who has been there. Answering his plea for help, a Nanny McPhee decides to offer her services and with her five rules, the children will learn not to get on her wrong side.The acting is pretty good in this film as one would expect with Emma Thompson and Colin Firth as headliners. Emma Thompson does a really good job as Nanny McPhee and she goes through a complete transformation over the course of the film. Meanwhile, Colin Firth uses his charming British personality to deliver another solid performance. Also, I'm certainly glad the kids are not annoying in this film, unlike most American films.Overall, Nanny McPhee turns out to be a magical film that is good for both children and adults. There are a few lessons that are worth learning that are scattered throughout the film, and I think that enhances the movie. This is a fun, entertaining film and it does not try to be more. I rate this film 9/10.

James Hitchcock "Nanny McPhee" is essentially "Mary Poppins" updated for the twenty-first century, although it also incorporates elements from "The Sound of Music". Like "The Sound of Music" it revolves around a widower with seven children. It shares with "Mary Poppins" a late Victorian or Edwardian setting and the idea of a mysterious nanny with magical powers. There are, however, also differences between "Nanny McPhee" and those two films. Whereas Captain von Trapp was a strict disciplinarian, the father in this film, the undertaker Cedric Brown, is completely unable to discipline his unruly children, who take great pride in the fact that they have managed to drive out seventeen nannies. Whereas Mary Poppins was played by Julie Andrews as an attractive young woman in her twenties, Nanny McPhee is (at least at first) a hideous old crone with a snaggle tooth and a face covered in warts. After she arrives at Cedric's home, he in desperation hires her as his children's eighteenth nanny, and she sets about reforming them through a mixture of magic and strict discipline. There are also sub-plots involving Cedric's elderly and eccentric Aunt Adelaide, on whom the family are financially dependent, and Mrs. Selma Quickly, a vulgar and self-centred widow with romantic designs on Cedric. It is thanks to Nanny McPhee's help that the children succeed in securing the continuance of Aunt Adelaide's allowance and thwarting Mrs Quickly's plans, as well as engineering a romance between their father and the pretty young scullery maid Evangeline. As the children's behaviour improves, so do Nanny's looks, until by the end of the film she is free of her disfigurements. Emma Thompson not only stars in the film, but also wrote the screenplay, as she did for another of her films, "Sense and Sensibility". Thompson seems to have been angling for both the child and the adult audiences. Parents will be delighted that Nanny McPhee has five important lessons to teach her charges, all along the lines of go to bed when you are told, do as you are told and respect your elders and betters. Yet despite this improving, moralistic framework, the younger generation will be equally delighted by the fact that the Brown children manage to get away with a surprising amount of anarchistic mischief (including a food fight) and to terrorise the unpleasant adults, especially Mrs Quickly. "Nanny McPhee" is the sort of film that the phrase "fun for all the family" could have been invented for. 7/10

Grissom66 Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson), a person of unsettling appearance and magical powers, enters the household of the recently widowed Mr. Brown (Colin Firth) and attempts to tame his seven exceedingly ill-behaved children. The children, led by the oldest boy Simon (Thomas Sangster), have managed to drive away 17 previous nannies and are certain that they will have no trouble with this one. But as Nanny McPhee takes control, they begin to notice that their vile behavior now leads swiftly and magically to rather startling consequences.Her influence also extends to the family's deeper problems, including Mr. Brown's sudden and seemingly inexplicable attempts to find a new wife; an announcement by the domineering Aunt Adelaide (Angela Lansbury) that she intends to take one of the children away; and the sad and secret longings of their scullery maid, Evangeline (Kelly Macdonald). As the children's behavior begins to change, Nanny McPhee's arresting face and frame appear to change as well, creating even more questions about this mysterious stranger whom the children and their father have come to love. Nanny McPhee 3/10