Nanny McPhee

Nanny McPhee falls back on the Nickelodeon principle If all else fails, hit em with a retina searing overload of visual and aural information. ( Read More )

Owen Gleiberman

type Movie Current Status In Season mpaa PG runtime 97 minutes Wide Release Date 01/27/06 performer Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Angela Lansbury, Imelda Staunton director Kirk Jones distributor Universal author Emma Thompson We gave it a C One of those hyperactive kiddie flicks that knocks you upside the head from its opening scene. ( Read More )

Roger Ebert

Watching the movie, I reflected that the difference between American and British children in the movies is that the American kids tend to run their families and the British kids (Harry Potter excepted) tend to require, and deserve, many hard lessons in life.It is also refreshing that British kids do not succeed because they find out they are good at sports (Quidditch excepted). ( Read More )

Cynthia Fuchs

If some of the movies effects are distractingly shoddy (see: the unconvincing dancing donkey), Thompson is rather divine. ( Read More )

Dan Callahan

En every way an exemplary childrens film, but its much more than that: at its best, it resembles the gently whimsical Ealing comedies of the 50s. ( Read More )