errrrr...... well....... Don't bother unless its a Tuesday afternoon, its raining, its half term and the kids are screaming "im 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 actor 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 cant 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. With 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 didn't have a point. It just had a family effected by the war, were 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 in the 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 the culture clashes, that means that they need good ole Nanny McPhee to sort em 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)
The only good thing this film offers, is the swimming pigs, which my nieces cant stop chatting about and thought it was the best bit of the film. So did I to be fair. But thats about as much magic and fun there is in this film. My Nieces were quite positive about the film overall, and were pleased to of watched it, but 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 its no epic. If Nanny McPhee were 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!!!!!
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. With 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 didn't have a point. It just had a family effected by the war, were 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 in the 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 the culture clashes, that means that they need good ole Nanny McPhee to sort em 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)
The only good thing this film offers, is the swimming pigs, which my nieces cant stop chatting about and thought it was the best bit of the film. So did I to be fair. But thats about as much magic and fun there is in this film. My Nieces were quite positive about the film overall, and were pleased to of watched it, but 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 its no epic. If Nanny McPhee were 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!!!!!