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That those blemishes begin to disappear each time her kids learn from her teachings offers a somewhat disturbing statement on the value of physical beauty.
There's still a warm, British naturalism to Nanny McPhee Returns and an old-fashioned cheerfulness uncommon to most of today's kids movies.
The child actors are so funny that even the stalest jokes seem fresh.
An authentic fairy tale for kids with brains and imagination, Nanny McPhee Returns"serves up a flavorful mixture of magic and melancholy, barnyard humor and old-timey British idealism.
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.
There's a charming little film struggling to get out of this nearly two-hour CGI extravaganza...
An unfunny nanny who outstays her welcome.
Thompson brings a sly wit to some scenes, and her absence is felt when she leaves the screen time to the bickering children.
Nanny McPhee Returns establishes standard class differences between the country cousins and the city cousins -- even as both sets of children are in need of retraining by the daunting Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson).
Almost defiantly old-fashioned. There is something charming about the idea that children will still go for this sort of thing.
Nanny McPhee Returns may not be the most original material, but compared to so much of the dim-bulb rubbish churned out for tots, it practically qualifies as enchanted.
Thompson spends much of Nanny McPhee Returns's interminable 109-minute runtime trying to set her homely titular heroine apart from Mary Poppins.
Noisy, forced and much less magical than Nanny McPhee I.
It's nice to see Nanny McPhee back again, even if she's every bit as scary as she was when she first appeared.
[W]hat sort of mind thinks this sort of material is children's entertainment?
The only performer to emerge without a professional scratch is Thompson, who as usual makes the most of her character, warts and all.
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