Nanny McPhee Details

Brilliant

This film was excellent, I would recommend anyone going to see this. It was a bit scary in places but Emma Thompson played Nanny McPhee very well. Best film I've seen in ages, with a fairy tale ending.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Nanny Mcquite easily forgetable

Do you know something? When eating Chinese food I always got filled up rather quickly. But by the time I got home I was hungry again. No other food did this to me. Funny that. And now I have found the cinematic equivalent in Nanny Mcphee. Yes Emma Thompson underplays this role very well. Yes the gothic style is a joy. And yes, Simon, played by that sweet little lad from Love Actually [you know him... he's the one who loses his Mum and won't talk to his Dad and also has fallen in love with his singing classmate], is suitably rebellious with a cause. But yet there is something lacking about this film (and its not the lack of depth to Colin Firth's character). And it has taken a few days to realise what it is. It is just too blinkin nice for its own good. Children's horror, even mock horror, ought to have an edge. Twas ever thus. Ask Grandma in the Hansel and Gretel story whether this is a sweet bedtime story. Did the wolf live happily ever after when Little Red Riding Hood came to visit? Of course not. So why should we or any child (since this film was clearly intended for that hard to please audience) be satisified with this feel good, feel empty film-ending? Well we are not. Bah Humbug. I wanted something more realistic, more horrid, well... just more. And this film left me feeling like I had eaten a Chinese meal 2 hours ago.