Talk:Nanny McPhee

2005 film
This film was released in 2005 in the UK, therefore it is a 2005 film. Marky1981 15:34, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

CLEANUP
See WikiProject Films/Style guidelines. Cbrown1023 14:24, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Box Office
Is this correct? The premier was in October 2005, not January 2006. This seems to be written from a US perspective - is it classed as a US film? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ei2g (talk • contribs) 11:18, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Setting
was it really set in the 19th century? my understanding was it was set in 1900's as they had electricity but did not have cars and that the Nanny Mcphee setting was contemporary of Mary Poppins which was set in 1910. the time is not explicit in the film. Tydoni (talk) 00:18, 10 August 2009 (UTC)


 * The second film is set in WWII, and Agatha is an elderly lady - Maggie Smith was in her 70's when she played the part, but presumably Aggie is meant to be at least in her 50-60's in the second film. And since Aggie is an infant in the first film, and WWII ended in 1945, we can assume that the events of the first film take place before 1900, most likely at least a decade or two before the turn of the century. Obviously when Tydoni posted this question we didn't yet have that frame of reference, but the historical elements of the second film do confirm the 19th century timeline. CleverTitania (talk) 07:08, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Spotting
What's the spotting section about? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.111.4.202 (talk) 17:17, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

It is vandalism and I got rid of it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ditsy5154 (talk • contribs) 19:51, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

I assume Robin Williams marked as main lead in place of Emma Thompson was also vandalism. I fixed it. —Kumagoro-42 00:07, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Lessons
After what lesson does she lose weight? At the start of the film she's quite big but at the end she's wearing a corset. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.74.194.57 (talk) 00:44, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Mr. Brown
Colin Firth's character is given 3 different names in this article. Which is correct? Tenorcnj (talk) 20:28, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Setting sometime in the 1860's?
Is this movie really set sometime in the 1860's? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clrichey (talk • contribs) 23:53, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Plot
I watched the movie 2 nights ago, and I don't entirely agree with this. I think it's shortened down too much in the second paragraph, and the third a bit as well. And it doesn't even mention the '5 lessons' that she has to teach the children. GOLDIEM J (talk) 11:19, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Cleaning up Character Descriptions
A lot of superfluous information was in the character descriptions, some of which is not in the film at all and are strictly references to the novel characterizations. Here are a few details of what I removed and why. If you want to restore any of this information, please discuss it here first.

I took out all the "most sensible," and "most imaginative" stuff, the middle names of the children and the first names of the cook and Cedric's co-workers. None of this is in the film (dialog or credits) therefore we don't even know if any of this is intended to be relevant in the film version - which is obviously not intended as a precise adaptation of the novels. The names now match the film's credits. I did leave that Simon is the oldest and Agatha is the youngest, because of Simon being the most prominent of the children's characters in the film and the context of Aggie being a baby. And I took out the information about Sebastian and Christianna being twins, which I also cannot find any evidence is intended to be a detail which carried over from the books into the film.

I took out the patient and outspoken notes about Evangeline and Mrs. Blatherwick, because they seem like very subjective descriptions that don't advance much information about the characters. My intention is that mentioning Mrs. Blatherwick's military-minded attitudes and Evangeline's desire to become educated will demonstrate their most prominent character traits a little more clearly, using information directly in the film's dialog. I rewrote the descriptions for Aunt Adelaide and Mrs. Quickly along the same lines, removing the strict wording and adding her role as the family's benefactor for the former, and for the latter removing the vile descriptor and focusing on her frequency of husband's dying and her being a last resort for Cedric.

I also reordered the information in Cedric's description, just because I felt the sentence flowed strangely, with undertaker as an inline descriptor with widower and patriarch.

I finally took out all the unnecessary references to the final scenes of the film, that had been wedged in - like calling Evangeline the kids' "future stepmother" and explaining that the vicar was there to marry Cedric and Selma and ended up marrying him and Evangeline instead. It cluttered up the descriptions and is all in the plot summary already. CleverTitania (talk) 11:44, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

Nanny McPhee Name
Undid contribution of 222.153.109.108

Nanny McPhee is not confirmed to have a first name - Agatha is the name of one of the children. 1432423132A (talk) 06:10, 29 April 2024 (UTC)