 Director :
Kirk Jones
Starring : Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury
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The plot of Nanny McPhee
Governess Nanny McPhee (Thompson) uses magic to reign in the behavior of seven ne'er-do-well children in her charge.
Nanny McPhee Review
Review by Leslie Felperin:
Working Title's latest attempt to crack the lucrative family market after the sputtering "Thunderbirds," "Nanny McPhee" finds the Brit shingleshingle returning to a cozy comfort zone with a "Mary Poppins"-like tale of naughty well-heeled tykes tamed by a magical child-minder. Even with its clipped English accents, "Nanny" should prove a lucrative (especially on ancillary) and exportable property with its name cast led by Emma ThompsonEmma Thompson and Colin FirthColin Firth, a spoonful of sugary morality and a kidcentric mindset suitable for female tots.
Pic opened wide in BlightyBlighty Oct. 21 with a $4.6 million opening weekend, good for second place between "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" and "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride." Universal has pegged U.S. bow for Jan. 27.Film, based loosely on Christianna Brand's "Nurse Matilda" children's books of the 1960s, is set in a fantasy version of the late Victorian period. However, script by Thompson often feels like a G-rated version of one of Working Title's contempo, adult-oriented successes, with its single-parent set up ("About a Boy""About A Boy") and subplot about a cross-tracks romance ("Love Actually," "Bridget Jones's Diary""Bridget Jones's Diary") between lead grown-up Mr. Brown (WT regular Firth) and scullery maid Evangeline (Kelly Macdonald). Even the slapstick recalls WT hits like "Johnny English""Johnny English" and "Bean. Review By Louise Keller:
After the recently widowed Mr. Brown (Colin Firth) has seen the back of the 17th nanny, all driven away by his six mischievous children, the mysterious Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson), appears and offers to help. She has unsettling facial features and magical powers. As Nanny McPhee takes control, the children begin to notice that their acts of mischief lead swiftly and magically to unexpected consequences. Is she a hypnotist? A magician? A witch? Even Mr. Brown isn't sure, but under Nanny McPhee's influence, his own life is being turned upside down as well.There's no spoon of sugar given by this nanny, but like Mary Poppins, Nanny McPhee knows how to sort out needy children as well as their needy father. And while she may be an unlikely heroine with a bulbous nose, facial moles and wildly protruding tooth, her methods are beyond reproach.A dancing donkey wearing a purple hat, pastel-dipped baby lambs, worm sandwiches, toads in teapots and hairy tarantulas creeping into bouffant hairdos are some of the delights of this very sweet film, which is filled with mischief and fantasy. It's colourful, bright and funny, with splendid production design, and apart from the central characters, everyone is a larger-than-life caricature. |
