Nanny McPhee Returns
Nanny McPhee is back playful and more magical than ever. The first film lovers will be delighted with this typical British humor and these people always so colorful. The others will think twice before going there, because the story is primarily intended for young children.
When problems arise, Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) is coming soon. She tries to calm the children while Mom Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal) looks forward to the return of her husband who went to war. It should however keep an eye on Uncle Phil (Rhys Ifans) who would do anything to acquire the family home.
In 2005, Emma Thompson had the bright idea to transpose the essence of the cinema books “Nurse Matilda” by Christianna Brand. Suddenly, “Nanny McPhee” was a huge popular success, which explains this result has nothing to envy to the original. Yet none of the actors from the first version (except of course the heroine) are back, so that Kirk Jones was replaced behind the camera by Susanna White.
This gives an idea of the universality of scenario, again written by the famous actress. This second part begins in joy and gladness, showing children squabbling before the impotence of their mother. Here landed the “Mary Poppins” 21e century, much less pretty but the equally unorthodox methods. We must bring order and the new housekeeper five important lessons to teach young minds. This introduction may be didactic and moralistic, but it is a tale, which is there to dream and to temporarily halt the horrors of daily life. This explains the presence of many animals in particular poses, including the pigs begin to dance about nothing.
While many young viewers amused that bird rote and the magic tricks, the adult is entitled to expect anything but two-dimensional characters and repetitive situations. His wish will come true mid-way feature. The laughter leave a little space for drama, and emotion finally spring. While adults still retain their aura of comics, it is children who become human, caring for their parents.
The honor is safe and what are the beautiful moral that will have the final word. We must stop fighting, sharing, helping each other, be brave and keep faith. Life lessons sticky materializing rather nicely with the realization joyously retro, music by James Newton Howard spruce and interpretation always in tune. The complicity between Emma Thompson and the young actors is undeniable. Slope in the bidding, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Rhys Ifans are smiling, and they are surrounded by extremely talented actors like Maggie Smith, Ralph Fiennes and Ewan McGregor.
In the average children’s films, “Nanny McPhee” will have no trouble finding its audience. Less touching “Ramona and Beezus” but less childish than “Cats & Dogs : The Revenge of Kitty Galore”, is an unusual result which is at least as entertaining as the previous one. This is not a reason to request a third volume which will no doubt appear soon …
