Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang 2010

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Sweet, sentimental, silly and star-studded, Nanny McPhee Returns is one of the best children's movies of the year, a fairytale stressed-out parents won't mind sharing with their little darlings. Read more

Kathleen Murphy, MSN Movies: An authentic fairy tale for kids with brains and imagination, Nanny McPhee Returns"serves up a flavorful mixture of magic and melancholy, barnyard humor and old-timey British idealism. Read more

Mike Hale, New York Times: The real scene stealers in Nanny McPhee Returns are the child actors. Read more

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Keith Uhlich, Time Out: This is children's entertainment on the structural level of Roald Dahl and George Miller's great Babe: Pig in the City, even if the visuals rarely rise above polished and proficient. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: The ham-handed director was Susanna White, who intercuts compulsively, whether or not anything is happening. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: May Nanny McPhee return again, very soon. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Comedy built on a bedrock of poo jokes, hairy moles, and gooey substances that stick to characters' shoes. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Thompson, unrecognizable for most of the movie, is impressively dour, a sort of Mary Poppins gone to seed. Read more

Tom Russo, Boston Globe: We get a gentler, more wink-inclined Nanny McPhee, not to mention kids whose rambunctiousness seems manufactured rather than entertainingly exaggerated. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Too much of the contrasting comedy in Nanny McPhee Returns is shrill, laden with routine computer-generated effects and pounded into dust by James Newton Howard's shut-up-already musical score. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The child actors are so funny that even the stalest jokes seem fresh. Read more

Nancy Churnin, Dallas Morning News: It still has charm, magic and Emma Thompson -- and that's more than you can say about a lot of family films. Read more

Adam Graham, Detroit News: That those blemishes begin to disappear each time her kids learn from her teachings offers a somewhat disturbing statement on the value of physical beauty. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Kid viewers will have fun with the references to barnyard poo, poo of all sorts, poo to reckon with. Read more

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Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: Emma Thompson's Nanny McPhee is in fine form in her second comic outing for Universal. Read more

Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times: Thompson again wrote the screenplay, putting an emphasis on language, emotion and manners, qualities typically in short supply in movies geared toward families. Read more

Jake Coyle, Associated Press: There's still a warm, British naturalism to Nanny McPhee Returns and an old-fashioned cheerfulness uncommon to most of today's kids movies. Read more

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Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: This dour, hyperactive family film is joyless, overly busy and starchy. Worse, it pats itself on the back for doling out the most minimal of morals. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: There's a charming little film struggling to get out of this nearly two-hour CGI extravaganza... Read more

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: The film boasts animal magnetism for kids and emotional resonance for adults. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Has a lighter spirit than its predecessor, but it arrives at the same warm and touching place. Read more

Kristin Tillotson, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Thanks to star Emma Thompson's smart, appealing script, the mysterious babysitter with the grotesque face and no-nonsense ways once again delivers a welcome antidote to Disneyfied heroines. Read more

Charles Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: A delightful family movie, filled with frolicking farm animals, flying motorcycles and life lessons worth remembering. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Ultimately, the performances carry the film. Read more

Trevor Johnston, Time Out: Director Susanna White, surely one to watch, manages some disarming emotional grace notes under the circumstances. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: This sequel to 2006's Nanny McPhee is almost as charming as the first. Read more

Leslie Felperin, Variety: A spoonful of sugar, a half-cup of schmaltz and some synchronized-swimming CGI piglets help the moral medicine go down a second time. Read more

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Nick Schager, Village Voice: It's merely a compendium of photocopied elements, cartoonish special effects, and easy-bake happily-ever-afters. Read more

Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: It can take a miracle to create a movie that's fun for kids and their parents. Luckily, Nanny McPhee has a little magic up her sleeve. Read more