Fresh
A delightful family movie, filled with frolicking farm animals, flying motorcycles and life lessons worth remembering.
Charles Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
The magic's back, warts and all.
2010 · 1h 49m · PG
Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Directed by
Susanna White
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Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Susanna White Director
- Emma Thompson as Nanny McPhee
- Maggie Gyllenhaal as Isabel Green
- Asa Butterfield as Norman Green
- Oscar Steer as Vincent Green
- Rosie Taylor-Ritson as Celia Gray
- Eros Vlahos as Cyril Gray
- Lil Woods as Megsie Green
- Rhys Ifans as Phil Green
- Maggie Smith as Mrs. Docherty
- Bill Bailey as Farmer Macreadie
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
76%
Tomatometer
Rotten
That those blemishes begin to disappear each time her kids learn from her teachings offers a somewhat disturbing statement on the value of physical beauty.
Adam Graham, Detroit News
Fresh
There's still a warm, British naturalism to Nanny McPhee Returns and an old-fashioned cheerfulness uncommon to most of today's kids movies.
Jake Coyle, Associated Press
Fresh
The child actors are so funny that even the stalest jokes seem fresh.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Fresh
An authentic fairy tale for kids with brains and imagination, Nanny McPhee Returns"serves up a flavorful mixture of magic and melancholy, barnyard humor and old-timey British idealism.
Kathleen Murphy, MSN Movies
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