Nanny Mcphee Returns.....Straight from the Land of Poo!!

errrrr...... well....... Don't bother watching this unless it’s a frustrating Tuesday afternoon, it’s raining, it’s half term and that little voice in your head kids are screaming "I’m bored". They will enjoy it, but the potential for the adults to enjoy it goes out of the window after you have seen all the actors enter. It just doesn't have any real depth, plot or point to it. One of the biggest gripes with this, is the cast is excellent, so it annoys me to see Rhys Ifans, Ewan McGregor, Bill Bailey, Maggie Smith, Katy Brand and obviously Emma Thompson all just looking like they have turned up for some pocket money, or something to do for a couple of weeks. I mean that cast is superb and better than some of the huge block-busters that are out. But when the story is just plain dull, the saying comes to mind that you can’t make a "xxxx" beautiful. LOL

Personally I actually didn't mind the first film (As I'm more of a thriller/horror kind of guy) because it had a point to it. I just thought the movie was very drab and boring .The storyline was very predictable as well. Basically it's just the first movie with a different set of characters. It seemed to be very short as well, but I don't know if that was because of the fact that I was texting through most of it.

The first Nanny Mcphee had a single father looking after 7 children who are running wild and scaring off every nanny that he hires. So McPhee enters and saves the day. But this latest one didn't have a point. It just had a family affected by the war, where the father is away all the time, so the children have to, and seemed keen enough to, help out around the farm. I mean looking into it they seemed happy enough, and did more work and appreciated family values than most kids in the world today. The mother leaves them at home every day to go work at a local shop, so they completely run the whole farm by themselves. So just because some city children turn up and they have a bit of a fight with them, that means that they need good ol’ Nanny McPhee to sort them out. UH?? A good slap and early bed I say. DONE!! No need for the film. (P.S I don't condone violence to children).

Overall I thought the SFX was weak and the second half of the film lacked much of Nanny Mcphee's character, yeah she was there but didn't say or do much.
I am actually really surprised that the IMDb rating for this is so high. I thought this movie was a waste of time and pretty much awful.

The nauseatingly corny and clichéd excuse for a climax is the icing on the cake of Susanna White's horribly naive direction, which unfortunately – together with Thompson's rather sloppy script – represses her and the rest of the remarkably adept cast, tragically capping their potential.

The only good thing this film offers, is the swimming pigs. But that’s about as much magic and fun there is in this film. I feel that kids’ films should appeal, or at least create some entertainment for the adults (who pay for the tickets in the first place). I think most kids will enjoy this film but it’s no epic. If Nanny McPhee was a TV series, then this would be the rubbish one where she fixes a family who don't really need fixing. Oh and also there isn't a BIG BANG!!!!!