Synopsis
Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she’s arrived, Nanny discovers that the children are fighting a war of their own against two spoiled city cousins who have just moved in. Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and a statue that comes to life to a tree-climbing piglet and a baby elephant, Nanny uses her magic to teach her mischievous charges five new lessons.
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Cast
- Emma ThompsonNanny McPhee
- Asa ButterfieldNorman Green
- Ralph FiennesLord Gray
- Maggie GyllenhaalIsabel Green
- Maggie SmithAgatha Rose Doherty
- Rhys IfansPhil Green
- Daniel MaysBlenkinsop
- Bill BaileyFarmer MacReadie
- Ewan McGregorRory Green
- Rosie Taylor-RitsonCelia Gray
Recommendations
- 80
Time Out
Thompson's imagination-she's also the screenwriter-knows no bounds, and she does a brilliant job of connecting the fantastical elements to the sobering realities of life during wartime. - 75
Orlando Sentinel
Sweet, sentimental, silly and star-studded, Nanny McPhee Returns is one of the best children's movies of the year. - 70
Arizona Republic
The results of her work are predictable yet pleasantly played out. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
Thompson, who also wrote the script, has skittery, baffling fun enjoining her plummy guest actors (including Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, and Maggie Smith) to play broad Brit types. - 60
Empire
With flying pigs and magical nannying, this will charm children - but it could have been a little more charming for adults. - 50
Chicago Tribune
Too much of the contrasting comedy in Nanny McPhee Returns is shrill, laden with routine computer-generated effects and pounded into dust by James Newton Howard's shut-up-already musical score. - 50
Austin Chronicle
For American children, Nanny McPhee Returns may seem something like a foreign film, but the movie has enough spoonfuls of sugar to make the Britishisms go down. - 50
Boston Globe
The initial close-up of Thompson - all sourly snaggletoothed and begoggled - is as funny as anything in the original. And just that one quick glimpse would have been perfect.
