DVD: Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (U)

Reviewed,Ben Walsh
Friday 16 July 2010 00:00 BST
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Did we need a sequel to Emma Thompson's nanny caper? Mary Poppins didn't even get one and it was a spoonful of sugar more inventive than this.

Thompson reprises her role as the wart-covered nanny, this time "deployed" to assist a fraught rural mum (Maggie Gyllenhaal) who is being terrorised by five brats during wartime. Gyllenhaal does a hammy imitation of Thompson and the plot's cornier than Kansas, but this children's tale is not without its small joys; namely Eros Vlahos's haughty, naughty Cyril and Ralph Fiennes's uptight English officer. ben walsh

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