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[[File:200px-Nanny_mcphee_3815.jpg|frame|She ''will'' make you obey.]]

 

Cedric Brown is a hard-working widower who can't spend much time with his seven children, so he leaves them in the care of nannies. However, the children are very naughty and have managed, with pride, to scare the past seventeen nannies away. Running out of options, Mr. Brown listens to a mysterious voice's advice to call for a "Nanny McPhee." Nanny McPhee turns out to be a hag-like woman with a crooked cane and a habit of appearing out of nowhere. But there's a secret to her care-taking -- she has [[Magical Nanny|magic powers]], which she uses to teach the children some important lessons.

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 the war. With the added pressure of her brother-in-law wanting her to sell off the farm (to pay off his own gambling debts), and two upper-class cousins staying over, Nanny McPhee is needed once again. The trailer can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVOzEmywwMM here].

 

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* [[Badass]]: Nanny McPhee, to a point. This is a woman who rides in flying motorcycles, maintains order with a magic stick, and receives full attention and salutes from trained army soldiers.

* [[Badass Normal]]: Celia Gray. She can scream for over a half-an-hour and suffer no vocal problems.

* [[Brick Joke]]: {{spoiler|The baby elephant}} in the sequel.

* [[But Now I Must Go]]: The page quote.

* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: From a ''bird'' of all things (in the sequel).

* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]

* [[Cordon Bleugh Chef]]: The chef, specifically when she makes her 'army broth'.

* [[Denied Food As Punishment]]: Mr. Brown tries this on the children, but it doesn't work.

* [[Fake Brit]]: Maggie Gyllenhall proudly takes her place on the list of "American actors who can actually do a convincing English accent".

* [[Food Fight]]: Two -- one near the beginning with chaos, catapults and near-explosions, and {{spoiler|one at the wedding at the end, including wedding cake being thrown. Not to mention the one who kicks it all off is a priest toward the bride -- accidentally, but still.}}

* [[Gasshole]]: A crow's habit of eating putty turns it into one. [[Running Gag|Consistently.]]

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: A few ''[[Harry Potter]]'' actors star in these movie, including Imelda Staunton (Dolores [[The Umbridge|Umbridge]]) as The Chef, Kelly MacDonald (The Grey Lady/Helena Ravenclaw), Dame Maggie Smith (Professor McGonagall), Rhys Ifans (Xenophilius Lovegood) and {{spoiler|Ralph Fiennes (Voldemort)}} in the sequel, and Emma Thompson (Professor Trelawney) as the eponymous nanny.

** [[Angela Lansbury]]?

* [[Inexplicably Awesome]]

* [[Leap of Faith]]: In the sequel film, one of Nanny McPhee's medals is for Leaps of Faith and, at the end of the film, she awards it to the mother.

* [[Novelization]]: There's one for ''Nanny McPhee Returns'' and it's written by Emma Thompson, who plays Nanny McPhee and was the writer for this sequel film. It's her first ever children's book and it takes the form of a movie filming diary mixed in with the actual story. The book was praised by reviewers as being more than a simple tie-in. The audiobook version of the novelization is narrated by Emma.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: In the sequel, the girls have to prevent Isabel from signing the deed to the farm, and the country girl successfully filches the uncle's pen. When the uncle finds three more in a drawer, Nanny McPhee intervenes by bringing back [[Brick Joke|the baby elephant]] to snatch the three pens without him knowing. And then he finds the first pen on the country girl...

* [[Phrase Catcher]]: "I did knock." Although it is more like a borrowed (by Simon) [[Catch Phrase]].

* [[Pie in The Face]]: Or wedding cake in the face, actually.

* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: Evangeline.

* [[Spot of Tea]]

* [[Time Bomb]]: Of a sort, in the sequel.

* [[Title Drop]]: in the sequel, a war veteran warns Maggie Gyllenhaal and family of the threat of bombings, calling it 'the Big Bang'.

* [[Trickster Mentor]]

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: "LORD LOVE A DUCK!", {{spoiler|said by the priest after the first slice of wedding cake is thrown.}}

* [[Wire Dilemma]]: In the sequel film.

** Alternatively, [[Mary Poppins]] {{smallcaps|[[Deconstruction|with a proper witch]]}}.