Nanny McPhee

Nanny McPhee is a 2005 fantasy film starring Emma Thompson ( also wrote the screenplay, which is adapted from Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda books). Nanny McPhee arrives to help a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war, though she uses her magic to teach the woman's children and their two spoiled cousins five new lessons.Emma Thompson following a very strict and very ugly nanny who brings order and manners to a household full of naughty children. In addition to emphasizing discipline, manners and accepting the consequences of one's actions, Nanny McPhee has five very important base lessons to teach — each of which correspond to her various unattractive physical attributes: gray hair, lumpy figure, large droopy earlobes, two large moles, a uni brow, a large, bulbous nose, and a snaggle-tooth protruding over her bottom lip, all of which give her the appearance of a stereotypical witch. Nanny McPhee is as ugly as the children are naughty, so whenever a lesson is learned, at least one of her disfigurements vanishes. When all five lessons are learned, Nanny McPhee transforms from ugly and old to young and beautiful. According to one of the special bonus features, her weight gradually goes away, with it completely vanishing once they learn their fifth lesson.

First lesson - To go to bed when they are told (and say please) - Hair goes from gray to brown

Second lesson - To get up when they are told - Higher Wart disappears

Third lesson - To get dressed when they are told - Lower Wart disappears

Fourth lesson - To listen (and say thank you) - Uni brow disappears, hair turns blonder & wavy, droopy earlobes disappear, complexion improves.

Fifth lesson - To do as they are told - Nose no longer bulbous & the snaggle tooth disappears.

The storyline was very predictable as well. Basically it's just the first movie with a different set of characters. In the final analysis, this is a better film than its predecessor. It is more lovingly-crafted, less fantastic in the literal sense and more sharply observed.