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It's rather sad, really, but there it is. Simon Brown : We will never want you! Nanny McPhee : Then I will never go. Sign In. Play trailer Comedy Family Fantasy. Director Kirk Jones. Top credits Director Kirk Jones. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer DVD Trailer. Photos Top cast Edit. Colin Firth Mr. Brown as Mr.

Kelly Macdonald Evangeline as Evangeline. Eliza Bennett Tora as Tora. Jennifer Rae Daykin Lily as Lily. Samuel Honywood Sebastian as Sebastian. Holly Gibbs Christianna as Christianna. Elizabeth Berrington Letitia as Letitia. Adam Godley Vicar as Vicar. Kirk Jones. Meanwhile, her nefarious brother-in-law, Phil Rhys Ifans, savagely overacting , is bugging her to sell the farm so he can satisfy his gambling debts.

She claims she is deployed by the British Army. Indeed, during a sequence in a nicely period London circa , everyone from military guards to the statues in Trafalgar Square seems to know her. The major disappointment here is that the final act relies far too heavily on CGI magic rather than story, character or wit. But getting to the final act provides most of the fun.

The young actors are adept in their roles, especially Eros Vlahos and Rosie Taylor-Ritson as visiting cousins. Their thorough distaste for the aggressively rural environment is palpable, and their gradual acclimation to these surroundings is always amusing. When you want me, but no longer need me, then I have to go. It is a nasty habit! In the second film, Nanny McPhee is accompanied by a jackdaw whom she has named Mr.

Edelweiss has fallen out with Nanny McPhee due to his habit for eating inappropriate substances, mostly window putty. Because of this, Mr. Edelweiss has the collywobbles, and is constantly burping. Towards the end of the film, his putty-eating habit comes in handy when he pecks away enough explosive putty to enable Megsie Green to snip a green wire to shut down an enemy bomb.

Edelweiss then blows up like a big balloon. Nanny McPhee bangs her stick and he lets out an almighty burp which flattens the barley.