Tram Town
Saturday, January 21, 2006
| Category: Pitchers Emma Thompson wrote the screenplay for Nanny McPhee and she used a really cunning plan to make herself, the eponymous heroine, look pretty by starting herself off in the movie ugly and gradually taking away warts, a big nose, and other unattractive features until she looked just like Emma Thompson... but prettier because of the comparison with herself earlier in the pitcher. Colin Firth does his usual magnificent job, Kelly Macdonald is charming as the scullery maid and Angela Lansbury provides a nicely hateable Aunt Adelaide but, overall, it was a slow 97 minutes out at Airport West. The worst of it is that the children, with whom we are presumably supposed to empathise, do a classic sort of bunch of lovable rogues without the lovability. 6.5/10.0 certainly not an awful film but it will have to be a cheapish DVD for us to rush to a first day purchase. |
