'' Nanny McPhee Returns (2010) " English Hollywood Film Released on 20 Aug 2010, 2010
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CREW:
Director: Susanna White
Screenwriter: Emma Thompson
Release Date: 20 Aug 2010, 2010 (limited)
Genre: Drama
Studio: StudioCanal Relativity Media
Runtime:109 minutes
CAST:
Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Asa Butterfield, Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, Maggie Smith, and Ewan McGregor
Nanny McPhee Returns (2010)Plot Summary
On a farm in Britain in the 20th century during a war, Isabel Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is driven to her wits end by her hectic life. Between trying to keep the family farm up and running and her job in the village shop, aided by the elderly and slightly mad Mrs. Docherty (Maggie Smith), she also has three boisterous children to look after, Norman (Asa Butterfield), Megsie (Lil Woods) and Vincent (Oscar Steer). All of this she has to do while her husband is away at war. So when her children's two spoiled cousins, Cyril (Eros Vlahos) and Celia (Rosie Taylor-Ritson) Gray are sent to live on their farm and another war is being fought between the two sets of children, she is in need of a little magic. She hears a mysterious voice telling her that she needs Nanny McPhee and to her astonishment, Nanny McPhee appeared on her door step one stormy night.
Nanny McPhee Returns (2010)Story
Nanny McPhee arrives to help a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war, though she uses her magic to teach the woman's children and their two spoiled cousins five new lessons
Nanny McPhee Returns (2010)SYNOPSIS
A struggling mother receives some much-needed assistance tending to the family farm and raising a group of spirited children while her military husband is fighting overseas in this sequel to the whimsical 2005 fantasy comedy Nanny McPhee. Mrs. Isabel Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal) lives in a scenic valley with her two daughters and one son. They each understand the importance of working together as a family, and things are going remarkably smoothly for the rural quartet until a pair of spoiled cousins arrive for an extended stay, effectively turning the quaint little farm into a virtual zoo. As the situation quickly getting out of hand, Nannie McPhee (Emma Thompson) suddenly appears on her doorstep claiming that she can bring a much-needed sense of order to the out-of-control household. In time the mysterious helper does just that, using powerful magic to teach her young charges the importance of getting along, and gradually winning their trust in the process. But when the piglets escape from their sty, the contentious kids must work together to recover the family farm's most valued assets, or risk losing everything their father worked so hard to build before he went off to fight in the war. Rhys Ifans and Maggie Smith co-star.
Nanny McPhee Returns (2010) REVIEW
With Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (Nanny McPhee Returns in the US), Emma Thompson returns to the character she created in 2005's Nanny McPhee, based upon the Nurse Matilda books. Thompson not only stars, but also writes (as she did the original), creating a heartwarming lilttle children's movie that contains enough humor to keep the grownups entertained as well.
The story starts some 60 or 70 years after the first movie, during World War II. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Mrs. Green, the mother of three children living in the English countryside. Her husband is off fighting in the war and she and her children are fighting to keep the farm going. The family is enlarged when two city cousins come to stay to get away from the London bombing. And matters are complicated when Uncle Phil tries to sell the farm to pay off his gambling debts.
Nanny McPhee enters unaged, like Mary Poppins, just in time to help the Green family with all of their various problems. As in the first film, she is here to magically teach the children five lessons and as each lesson is learned, Nanny McPhee's appearance becomes less ugly. She begins the movie with moles, a unibrow and bad teeth, but as the movie goes on she becomes more like Emma Thompson.
The humor is rather mild and gentle. It's definitely aimed at smaller children. Pleasantly though, unlike many American films, the children are rewarded for their good behavior and are shown that basically children want love and attention, but also require guidelines and discipline. It's pleasantly old-fashioned in this way.
Gyllenhaal does a good job as the put upon mother, delivering a very well done English accent in the process. Ralph Fiennes, Ewan McGregor and Bill Bailey all do small cameo appearances, while Maggies Smith has a small but memorable part as the rather absent-minded elderly woman who provides the connection to the first film. Thompson's McPhee ("small c, big P"), while in the title and key to the plot, is really in a supporting role to the children, but remains the center of the movie.
There are several moments of outright sappiness, but it's handled so deftly and so straightforwardly, that it works in the movie's favor rather than against it.
If I had young children, this is definitely the kind of movie I would want them to watch, and the kind I would have enjoyed myself at that age.
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