Monica M. (Limey) from VIRGINIA BCH, VA Reviewed on 5/18/2013...
My granddaughter and I loved the story and the rolls that the various actors played.
Kathy J. (grammy19) from HYDE PARK, UT Reviewed on 3/27/2013...
I really liked this movie and so did my grandchildren! It was like a modern day Mary Poppins with a little bit of intimidation thrown in.
Carol B. from COOKEVILLE, TN Reviewed on 9/30/2010...
Having seen the second movie first, I enjoyed seeing the original. I am a Colin Firth fan and an Emma Thompson fan. The children are wickedly delightful, and the final scenes are breathtakingly beautiful.
Michelle H. (snoozemouse) from CHEYENNE, WY Reviewed on 6/11/2010...
My children love this movie. Emma Thompson is great.
Mary F. from DULUTH, GA Reviewed on 4/30/2010...
Love this movie!!
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Scott S. (stappy) from BANCROFT, MI Reviewed on 1/6/2010...
Our kids LOVE this movie and have watched it numerous times in a row.
Helen T. from VALDOSTA, GA Reviewed on 11/23/2009...
Totally Funny and Sad at the same time. A wonderful movie for all ages.
Jasmine R. from HIAWASSEE, GA Reviewed on 11/10/2009...
This was a very cute and funny movie. Great for the whole family. It teaches a valuable lesson to look beyond what people look like on the outside.
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Patricia L. from SALMON, ID Reviewed on 10/20/2009...
This is a great movie for the whole family....fun, colorful and witty and most of all there is a lesson to be learned.
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Movie Reviews
What you need is Nanny McPhee
Daniel J. Hamlow | Narita, Japan | 02/16/2006
(4 out of 5 stars)
"That's what Mr. Cedric Brown (Colin Firth), the widower father of seven children who'd take the team Olympic Gold for mischief-making does. Working at a funeral parlor with two silly assistants, Mr. Jowl and Mr.Wheen (Derek Jacobi), he relies on nannies to look after his offspring, but his childrens' antics are all to drive away the nannies; in the case of Nanny Weston, they make as if they were eating the youngest, an infant.
Mcphee (Emma Thompson) arrives at the Brown resident one stormy night, and her profile silhouetted outside the door reminds me of the shudder one thinks when Alfred Hitchcock's profile is shown on his show. If the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz and Mary Poppins were thrown together, one would get Nanny McPhee. She's clearly no beauty, as she has two warts on her face, a swollen nose, and a tooth that hangs over her lower lip. She also carries a crooked staff which she taps on the floor in order to conjure magic.
She wastes no time in getting the kids well-behaved, especially in a scene where the children have invaded the kitchen in defiance of their father punishing them. Her way is akin to forcing a PS2 junkie to keep playing games until he either gets bleeding controller blisters or his eyes pop out of his skull. Result, he'll have had enough.
Brown is gratified that her only conditions are that she teach his rambunctious kids five lessons and that she requires Sunday afternoons off. The lessons include saying please and thank you, going to bed on time, getting up on time, and doing what they're told. And mysteriously, when one of the lessons are learned, her warts disappear until...
Brown though is quite ineffectual in enforcing discipline in the household, as he is wishy-washy and too busy at his job. It's clear that the death of his wife, whom he still talks to via the empty chair she used to sit in, is still affecting him. His oldest, Simon says that he doesn't care about or spend time with them like he did when their mother was alive. But he is living off an allowance from his forbidding Aunt Adelaide, and if he doesn't marry by the end of the month, she'll cut him off. The children will be sent to foster homes or put to work in the workhouses. He's desperate enough to choose Selma Quickly, a disreputable and loudmouthed woman whose taste in colours are a garish dayglo fuschia and green, as a prospective new wife. Why not Evangeline, the scullery maid who's learning to read and is concerned about the children?
Three performers from Love Actually are reunited. They are Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, and Thomas Sangster, who played Liam Neeson's son. Thompson provides the film's sole center of stability and rationality, a soothing contrast to the stiff eccentricity of Angela Lansbury's Aunt Adelaide, and Celia Imry's vulgar Quickly.
McPhee's five lessons are values that seem to have been lost on the kids of today's era. In fact, they seem to have more in common with the wild jungle mentality the Brown children have in the beginning. She tells her charges: "When you need me, but do not want me, then I will stay. When you want me, but do not need me, then I have to go." Nanny McPhee effectively joins the ranks of Mary Poppins and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in instilling good manners and values in children.
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A MOVIE FOR EVERYONE
Velma Paetro | 04/14/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I saw this movie 10 minutes ago in a hotel room. Immediately, I go to Amazon.com to see if I can buy it. This is how good the movie is. You want to own it and watch it again and again. The story is good (no doubt, if you have read the book). The director is good. Just love it. Highly recommended."
For the "Kid" in everyone!
Karen Vincent | New Orleans, LA USA | 02/09/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"In the past few years, it seems like all of the movies that are safe to take young children to are computer generated animation films full of adult humor. The kids are entertained by the animation - the parents by the adult humor. "Nanny McPhee" thankfully breaks the mold with a sweet story for everyone in the theater. Children identify with the young actors in the film and the story never drags. The six-year old who accompanied me is usually one who loves action cartoons, killing, shooting, etc. When we left the theater he said, "That's the best movie I ever saw!" Thanks, Ms. Thompson, for reminding us about what children SHOULD be watching at the movies!"
An instant classic
nodice | Manchester, Ga United States | 01/28/2006
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Emma Thompson shines in her wonderful adaptation. Colin Firth, of course, plays the same British befundled love-sick hero he is in every film and Angela Lansbury should NEVER retire. I loved everything about this film from story, costumes, and casting. If you're looking for a fun enjoyable film you can take the whole family to--look no further. Nanny McPhee has just the magic stick for you!"
Magical Nanny for Naughty Children
Norliza Ismail | Seria, Kuala Belait Brunei Darussalam | 03/05/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I honestly don't know what to expect from this movie a first but a soon as I have watched it, I have managed to see how stand alone this movie is along with its predecessors such as Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. I actually have fun watching it!
Cedric Brown(Collin Firth) had finally come to his ends of his nerves with his children over their game of "get rid of our nannies" asap, cause even the agency of Nanny Placement Center had gave up after their most strictest Nanny number 17 quit. In the havoc household, their scullery maid Evangeline (Kelly Macdonald) seemed to be the only one the children could get along with. In desperate need for a nanny to control his evermost naughty children, Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) magically appeared in their lives, and with some miracles, the kids were finally under control.
Things gotten horrible when they found out their father has gotten broke and the only way to keep the alowance he has been getting their whole lives from great aunt Adelaide (Angela Lansbury), was to get married as soon as possible within the month. in desperation he as no choice but planned to marry Ms Quickly, who is a horrible woman, who only wanted the money from marrying Mr Brown.
I can't wait for the DVD version to come out for this one, cause I would really want it to be in my collection."