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Nanny McPhee Returns

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

2010

Susanna White

Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Asa Butterfield, Lil Woods ...

5.2

3,766

Fantasy. Comedy. Kids In wartime Britain, Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) appears at the door of a harried young mother, Mrs. Isabel Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal), who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she's arrived, Nanny McPhee discovers that Mrs. Green's children are fighting a war of their own against two spoiled city cousins who have just moved in. Money is tight and gambling addicted Uncle Phil (Rhys Ifans), who owns ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Louise Keller Urbancinefile	"Heart-warming children's film sequel (...) This is a sweet film with a heart as soft as marshmallows."
		Lou Lumenick New York Post	"There's a charming little film struggling to get out of this nearly two-hour CGI extravaganza"
		Glenn Whipp Los Angeles Times	"The animals are impossibly adorable, but never threaten to upset the film's delicate balance between magic and a more sobering reality. It's a fairy tale in the best tradition"
		Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"Has a lighter spirit than its predecessor, but it arrives at the same warm and touching place"
		Mike Hale The New York Times	"Neither the dangers of the plot - a dissolute uncle who wants to sell the farm, a father missing in action - nor the forbidding Nanny McPhee herself are as fearsome as they were the first time around"
		Stephanie Merry The Washington Post	"It can take a miracle to create a movie that's fun for kids and their parents. Luckily, Nanny McPhee has a little magic up her sleeve."
		Claudia Puig USA Today	"The end result, while entertaining, is the kind of unruly mess you can't imagine the indomitable Nanny McPhee tolerating"
		Simon Abrams Slant	"Thompson spends much of Nanny McPhee Returns's interminable 109-minute runtime trying to set her homely titular heroine apart from Mary Poppins."
		Nick De Semlyen Empire	"With flying pigs and magical nannying, this will charm children -- but it could have been a little more charming for adults."

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