“You need Nanny McPhee,” with a thud of her and five little lessons she will teach your children how to behave. Go to bed when they’re told. Get up when they’re told. Say please and thank you; and you got to watch the movie for the fifth.
So The movie: You simply got to love it. Nanny McPhee has that magical touch of Disney’s Marry Poppins with an addition of seven naughty motherless children of the The Sound of Music. It can be said that Emma Thompson is the new Julie Andrews.
First thing to notice is that the movie has a very interesting color scheme. A LOT of colors, strangely mixed and matched, which makes you aware of the fact that this is a super natural type of movie.
Enough said? No, ok so here’s more: The movie also lacks a time period, there is basically no way of telling when the story takes place. The only thing I can say for certain is that it takes place in the time of Fairy Tales, if that doesn’t make sense you have to watch the movie and it will. After all, only when it snows in August. Whatever that means.
As I said before the movie has certain Mary Poppins similarities. Magical medicine is one of them, with different, hehe, effects. Just a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down; but not if it’s Nanny McPhee’s measle medicine. It was black, slimy and literally moved around on the spoon. If I remember correctly Mary Poppins medicine tasted like your favorite treat, which didn’t seem to be the case here. By the looks on the children’s faces I seriously doubt that the taste was anything pleasurable.
Since it is a Fairy Tale the movie doesn’t lack evil villains. There is a horrid aunt who threatens the entire family and an evil soon to be stepmother. FYI-both are easily distinguishable by their lack of style or class. Hmm, kind of like in Roger and Hammerstein’s Cinderella staring Brandy. You know those really poorly-over-dressed witchy looking tacky women, yea that’s them. I think that’s a fair description. Don’t you?
Even though I didn’t like Colin Firth as Cedric Brown, I loved the movie. Maybe it’s me, but his character adaptation is non existent. His personality is as mellow as it was in Bridget Jones and Love Actually. As someone who seen more than one of his films I found him to be dull.
MOVIE GRADE A-
