What a waste of my time!!!

This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Overrated

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Nanny McPhee is a surprisingly unpleasant movie. Not a single one of its characters is appealing at all, so I never cared what happened to any of them - especially the children.It's remarkable that the casting directors managed to find seven such unattractive and unlikeable children, who become not a bit less unappealing after their magical transformation by Nanny from monsters into angels. The ONLY character who is not actively repellent is the father, but he is so annoyingly irresponsible and ineffectual that his passive aggression makes him the least sympathetic of them all.His determination to remain forever dependent on his dead wife's monstrous aunt is especially disgusting. I'd have loved it if he HAD ended up in debtors' prison - which is exactly where he belonged - with his ugly, obnoxious children scattered among the dregs of Dickensian England. I suppose it's realistic that such a determinedly incompetent father would produce such repulsive children, but why make a movie about such a repulsive family?I marvel at the glowing reviews this movie gets. I did not like it at all. Fortunately I also had the superficially similar Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium to watch the same day - with its wholly delightful cast of characters and the most adorable child actor I've ever seen - to clean my palate of this sour, repellent movie.

I think this is a pretty decent flick for the whole family, probably not at the same level of masterpieces like "The Sound of Music" and "Mary Poppins", but at least it was much better than most of the so-called family films that Hollywood keeps producing in the recent years.For me, what made this movie work were the funny performances of each actor, particularly Colin Firth and Emma Thompson, who made this film a very enjoyable experience despite the silliness of some scenes.Honestly, this turned out to be much better than I was expecting, and some scenes (like for example, the beautiful ending scene) remind me the times when innocent films for the whole family were produced, unlike the commercial and inappropriate kid's movies and television shows of the recent years.

Children might actually like this - yes, cause its full of children and full of baby-jokes... but please don't make your poor kids watch this... I mean honestly: Magical authoritarian force-slapping isn't the way to make a kid turn out good. The overcharged "what a wonderful moment"-music makes things even worse. It gets louder the more unrealistic and ridiculous the movie becomes. And it reaches levels of pointlessness that i didn't even know about. The characters are ink-horn and mostly unbearable.If you believe in hitting your children or if you think it would be wise to tie them onto their beds and feed em oil: Then you might enjoy this movie. Also then you hopefully don't have kids.

Nanny McPhee (2005)My opinion of this film is a very low one. I had the misfortune of seeing this at the cinema and I can tell you it is horrendous. Some people have claimed this is a 'modern Mary Poppins'; that would be true except Mary Poppins is a good film and this is well, rubbish.How can I be so malicious towards a kind-hearted kid's film? I love many family films, but none of them (or maybe 1 or 2) have bored me as much as this.I would go as far as calling this film depressing. It's so dull, monotonous and dragged on that I have nothing good to say about it. If I did I wouldn't rate it a 2/10.2/10