Amy Adler Joy Miller (Fran Drescher) is a night school hair instructor in the New York City area. One evening, the classroom catches on fire and Joy saves the day, hustling everyone out of the building. Her beautiful picture ends up in the local papers. It just so happens that a minister from the eastern European country of Slovetzia is looking for a teacher for the ruler's children and he hires Joy, not realizing that she teaches cosmetology alone. Only after the two of them land in Slovetzia does the truth come out. Never mind, Joy tells the public servant, she will do her best to teach those kids. The country's leader, Boris (Timothy Dalton), however, is a no-nonsense guy who rules his family and his country with an iron fist. Indeed, Slovetzia is depressingly similar to the Soviet Union at its worst. Boris is struck by Joy's charm and beauty but insists there will be no goofing off in the classroom. The children are sweet but one daughter, especially, longs for a bit more freedom. Can Joy bring a touch of democracy and levity to the dismal country? This darling little film will please both fans of romantic comedy and those who love Drescher. If "The Nanny" was your cat's meow, you will adore this film that came out years before, for it is strikingly similar. Indeed, Drescher and Dalton make a dynamite combination and are very pleasing. The rest of the cast is adequately pleasant. The costumes, especially Drescher's, are quite nice and the scenery and ruling palace are lovely. As for the script, it is funny and touching and the direction has energy. Therefore, if you love those comic tales of affection, skip the beauty parlor and head to the video store instead. You can get your hair done another day but you need this little jolt of sunshine, on film, immediately.

NoHollywoodPlease This film is the epitome of the moronic trash that Hollywood is bent on producing. Humor for those who cannot think. It is just another adventure of the illiterate nanny from Brooklyn, that is always more boring than the previous adventure, who should have been fired years ago. I won't spoil the work for you, watching it will spoil your day for you with much more class. I ranks right down there with the garbage from the Wayans brothers, John De Bello of Killer Tomatoes fame, Santa with Muscles, and like visual vomit. I give it a 2 and a half. I could actually go lower but it is hard to believe that there are actually efforts in cinematography that are much worse than Fran Drescher in her over played nanny role. Woody Allen, Monty Python, Marx Brothers, Peter Sellers, now there are the experts of comedy worth watching.

jpdonoso What do you expect? It's just entertainment business. And being such it works. Fran Drescher has her fans coming from The Nanny. Timothy Dalton gives the touch of quality acting and leading handsome actor prestige. Ken Kwapis - the director - has an expertize in TV series (including the famous ER among others). The plot is a blended mixture of The King and I, The Sound of Music, The Beauty and the Beast, The Nanny,etc., all following the proved successful formula of routine entertainment for masses. So, what do we get? A typical USA yarn showing how easy things can be solved in movies when some naive good looking Brooklyn girl strikes the heart of a stupid foreign dictator. Flattering money worth for spectators who just want to have a couple of laughs watching familiar faces - and situations - on the screen.

erwan_ticheler SPOILERS:I had to have been warned by the title of this piece of work,yet I was bored that night and there was nothing else on TV so I thought: Why Not? it can't be that bad? WRONG!BRR,it still gives me the chills thinking back of it.Everything about this movie sucks:the acting,the story,everything!First of all the acting:Fran Drescher is probably one of the most annoying people ever and not only because of that nagging voice.She just can't act! And they probably chose her for the role since she did nothing more in that terrible sitcom "The Nanny" and maybe cause she should be beautiful.(NOT!) Timothy Dalton then.Not a bad actor,yet in this movie he puts on an accent that makes no sense at all.It always freaks me out that those Hollywood movies use those over the top accents for Russians or Germans or whatever.It is quite insulting to the natives of those countries,if you ask me.The story is even worse,cause there actually ain't any! Woo,an American chick goes to Slovetzia (!?!?!?) to brainwash a so called dictator and the entire country in the Western ways.Just like Bush does nowadays in Iraq (only Saddam was a real dictator). The tale offers no surprises at all and ends with the two lovebirds kissing on the street,how sweet (uch,uch).Yet,the way that Ken Kwapis (a really legendary director) shows "us" the way that Eastern Europe lives is extremely narrow minded and very insulting,almost barbaric. Everybody in Slovetzia is an idiot yet the holy American girl saves the entire country with her capitalistic ways.No wonder that a lot of non-western people hate America,just look at this movie.By the way I don't hate America,I just hate the Bush-government!The cliches in this movie were too much for me.The dictator(a bad Stalin look-a-like),the American girl who changes it all,the children who want to become like her. Every cliche of the McCarthy era are shown without any shame.The witch hunter would be proud!For a close look at the egocentric and narrow minded look on the world by some Americans,watch this movie.1/10 (Currently number 4 in my bottom top 10 list)