Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
117,000
edits
Nanny McPhee: Difference between revisions
Added trope
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (transplanted material to Fridge and Trivia pages.) |
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (Added trope) |
||
Line 8:
Naughty children aren't the only problems Mr. Brown has to face. The truth is his late wife's aunt, Lady Adelaide Stitch, is supporting the family through a regular allowance, and she decides that unless Mr. Brown remarries by the end of the month, she will cut off those funds, meaning he will lose his house and his children. It's up to Nanny McPhee to help save a family on the brink of ruin.
The 2005 movie did well in theaters, and a sequel, ''Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang'' (called ''Nanny McPhee Returns'' in the United States), premiered in 2010. [[Maggie Gyllenhaal]] plays a beleaguered housewife juggling a farm and three children, while awaiting her husband's return from
A third film is in preproduction as of 2014, with an anticipated release date in 2015.
Line 65:
* [[Wicked Stepmother]]: Averted by Evangeline having a good stepmother. Played straight in that Selma Quidgly would have been a rotten stepmother -- had she actually married Mr. Brown. Subverted by the sweet Evangeline actually being the one becoming the kids' stepmother -- much to everyone's joy.
* [[Wire Dilemma]]: In the sequel film.
* [[World War II]]: The period in which the second film is set.
* [[X Meets Y]]: Mary Poppins {{smallcaps|But [[Darker and Edgier]] and with MORE OBVIOUS MAGIC!}}
** Alternatively, [[Mary Poppins]] {{smallcaps|[[Deconstruction|with a proper witch]]}}.
| |||