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Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

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In this 2010 sequel to Nanny McPhee, Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (also known as Nanny McPhee Returns in the U.S.), Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) returns. This time to farm in rural war-torn England. Isabel Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal) plays a beleaguered housewife and three children, who are all coping just fine with the war, awaiting the return of her husband, Rory Green (Ewan McGregor). Meanwhile, Isabel has to fend off Rory's brother Phil (Rhys Ifans), and his persistent attempts to get her to sell the farm, and deal with the arrival of the children's Londoner cousins.Being driven to the brink of exasperation after an elderly Mrs. Docherty (Maggie Smith) "puts away the treacle" by pouring it into a set of drawers, the day before the cousins arrive, Isabel starts hearing mysterious voices telling her "the person you need is Nanny Mcphee". Nanny McPhee turns out to be an "army nanny" with magical powers, using them to help teach the children the five lessons they need.The trailer can be found here.
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All There in the Manual
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All There in the Manual: The film's Novelization greatly expands the backstories of most of the characters.
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Title Drop
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Title Drop: Mr. Docherty warns Isabel and family of the threat of bombings, calling it "the Big Bang". The American title averts this.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat
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Obstructive Bureaucrat: Lord Gray. He is unresponsive to Cyril's request to look into the status of his father, after Cyril received a telegram from the War Office stating that he had been killed in action, Lord Gray disbelieving that Norman could "feel it in his bones" that Rory Green was alive.
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Mistaken Identity
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Mistaken Identity: Phil Green is initially terrified by Nanny McPhee's appearance, fearfully asking if she's Mrs. Biggles.
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Disappeared Dad
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Disappeared Dad: Rory Green is away fighting in The Warnote Implied to be World War II.
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Beauty Equals Goodness
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Beauty Equals Goodness: Played with. It's more like "goodness equals beauty", as Nanny McPhee grows progressively beautiful as the families she cares for become better people. She initially starts out as a Creepy Good herself and her transformation is reflective of the family's, with an ugly feature on her face removed for each lesson the family learns.
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Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
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Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Miss Topsy and Miss Turvy in the sequel, who talk about harvesting Phil's kidneys and taxidermising him with mad glee.
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Tomboy and Girly Girl
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Tomboy and Girly Girl: Megsie and Celia, although the difference is less obvious as the movie goes on and they get closer to each other.
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Full-Name Basis
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Full-Name Basis: We're given no alternative address for Nanny McPhee herself, and nobody refers to her as any less than her full title. An army recruit and former 'patient' of hers in the second film refers to her as "ma'am," but only after providing the complete title first.
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Magical Nanny
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Magical Nanny: Nanny McPhee shows up to help parents who are at their wits' end and teaches the kids to behave, whether they want to or not. She also possesses magical powers, which she mostly channels through her stick.
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Be Careful What You Say
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Be Careful What You Say: When the farm kids refuse to share their beds with the city kids, claiming they'd rather share their beds with the farm's goat and cow. Then Vincent blurts out "elephant" as his choice, leading up to Nanny McPhee trying (and succeeding) to hide a literal Elephant in the Living Room.
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Revolting Rescue
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Revolting Rescue: Eidelwiess the talking jackdaw inadvertently saves Uncle Phil by burping so hard he blows Phil's would-be killers away.
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Blatant Lies
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Blatant Lies: Nanny McPhee offers a strange justification for herself, calling herself an "army nanny" that had been deployed and was remunerated by the military, who had arranged her own accommodation, to assuage Isabel's concerns of her not being able to afford a nanny. Phil Green himself frequently lies to Isabel in an attempt to get her to sell the farm, because he lost it in a bet in one of Mrs. Biggle's riverside casinos, and she sent hit-women after him.
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Inexplicably Awesome
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Inexplicably Awesome: We don't know where Nanny McPhee got her powers from. She seems to be the only person with magic.
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The Stinger
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The Stinger: At the end, the elephant gets to enjoy the Scratch-o-Matic machine that was designed for the pigs.
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Trapped by Gambling Debts
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Trapped by Gambling Debts: Why Phil is so desperate in convincing Isabel to sell the Greens' farm. He gambled away the farm at a casino, despite only legally owning half of it, and the casino's owner has sent two hit women to either collect it, or his kidneys.
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Affably Evil
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Affably Evil: Topsey and Turvey, especially the former, are friendly, polite, and cheery to Phil. They also plan on subjecting him to several gruesome fates per Mrs. Biggles's instructions, but to them that's nothing to get upset over.
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Wire Dilemma
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Wire Dilemma: With an unexploded bomb. According to the bomb defusing manual, all enemy bombs are like this, with wires that must be cut in specific sequence to defuse the bomb.
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Dark Is Not Evil
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Dark Is Not Evil: Nanny McPhee wears dark clothes and may be a frightening woman with an unsettling appearance, but her approach is always effective and she shows a true caring for the issues close to the families' hearts.
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Beauty Inversion
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Beauty Inversion: Spun into a plot point for Nanny McPhee. Every time the children learn something, one of her many hideous blemishes disappear. By the time her job is done, she's a completely unblemished Emma Thompson. Essentially, she's as ugly on the outside as they are on the inside.
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Trickster Mentor
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Trickster Mentor: Nanny McPhee always has five lessons to teach. What form they take, and what lessons the children learn is entirely up to them. While she is a nanny to the children, not all the lessons are for the children. Lesson 5, to have faith, is implied to apply to Isabel as well as her children.
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Time Bomb
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Time Bomb: Of a sort. An unexploded bomb drops and must be defused, with the pressure of error and its potential to explode at any moment by itself. It becomes a time-bomb, when it turns out that there is a secret third wire that must be cut after the first two, or else the bomb detonates in 10 seconds.
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Brainy Pig
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Brainy Pig: Zigzagged. The piglets do synchronised swimming and climb trees, as a result of Nanny McPhee's magic. The guy who buys them claims that he knew a pig who could play Scrabble and another who could count to ten in French. He turns out to be joking for the last one, but he admits that pigs are clever animals.
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Injured Limb Episode
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Injured Limb Episode: Rory Green has his arm in a sling when he returns at the end of the film.
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Fooled by the Sound
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Fooled by the Sound: When Algernon whistles to demonstrate a bomb falling, Mrs. Docherty thinks it's the kettle.
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Missing Mom
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Missing Mom: Rory Green is away serving in "the War," and is thus unaware of his brother Phil's attempts to con his wife Isabel out of their farm in order to pay Phil's gambling debts.
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: While not prominent, Celia and Cyril's surname is Gray, while Isabel's family is Green. Celia and Cyril come from the city while Isabel's family lives on the countryside.
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The Cuckoolander Was Right
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The Cuckoolander Was Right: Mr. Docherty, the safety marshal, seems to have some of the eccentricity of his wife, recommending that Isabel and the children wear safety helmets whilst out on a picnic in a field. He provides an example of an enemy pilot with a terrible cold sneezing and accidentally dropping a bomb on the family. That is exactly what happens later on in the film, when an enemy pilot with a terrible cold sneezes and accidentally drops a bomb onto the Green family's barley field.
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The Ageless
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The Ageless: Nanny McPhee still looks the exact same age as she was in the first film, despite several decades having passed. Mrs. Docherty, the elderly shopkeeper, was Baby Aggie Brown in the first movie.
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Blanket Tug O' War
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Blanket Tug O' War: The baby elephant takes Vincent's blanket for itself.
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Gasshole
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Gasshole: Mr. Edelweiss the jackdaw's habit of eating inappropriate substances, such as putty, consistently turns him into one, as it gives him collywobbles.
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The girls have to prevent Isabel from signing the deed to the farm, and Megsie successfully filches uncle Phil's pen. When Phil finds three more in a drawer, Nanny McPhee intervenes by bringing back the baby elephant to snatch the three pens without him knowing. And then he finds the first pen on Megsie.
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Freak Out
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Freak Out: When the bomb hits, it seems the pressure of the last few days - trying to get Isabel to sell the farm before time runs out and Topsy and Turvy butcher him - hits Phil all at once and he starts desperately begging Mr Docherty to arrest him, where he'll be safe, much to everybody's confusion.
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Bait-and-Switch
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Bait-and-Switch: On the night when things are going wrong after the cousins' arrival, someone bangs on the door and we see a familiar profile through the window. It turns out to be Phil holding a paper over his head. The next knock is actually from Nanny McPhee. When Celia refuses to go out to help catching piglets in the mud, it seems that Nanny McPhee is going to force her to go outside with magic... then she just holds up a pair of wellingtons.
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Wardrobe Wound
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Wardrobe Wound: Celia shrieks more about her new clothes being dragged in the mud than during the ensuing beat-'em-up scene.
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Villainous Breakdown
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Villainous Breakdown: Phil Green undergoes one when an unexploded bomb hits the farm. Believing it to be a sign that Topsy and Turvey are going to kill him, he starts begging Mr. Docherty to handcuff him, so that he'll be safe. When Mr. Docherty leaves to deal with the bomb, he turns to the Green family, asking them for much the same.
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Black Cloak
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Black Cloak: One of these helps to intensify Nanny McPhee's spooky vibe, to the point where, in each film, we do not see her arms at all until she pulls out her magic walking stick for the first time.
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Not So Above It All
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Not So Above It All: Nanny McPhee, upon hearing that the children are catching the pigs too easily, uses her magic to make them climb trees, do somersaults, and various other gymnastic acts, to make them harder for the children to catch. She also summons Ellie to steal Phil's pens, and help Celia and Megsie stop Isabel from signing away the farm.
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Greater-Scope Villain: Mrs. Biggles is a casino owner who Phil owes gambling debts to. While she never appears in the film, she's the one who sends Topsey and Turvey after Phil, thus driving Phil to his Big Bad actions.
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Continuity Nod: Mrs. Docherty turns out to be Aggie, the youngest Brown child from the previous movie. She still has her precious rattle.
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Eek, a Mouse!!: Faked by Celia to keep her aunt Isabel from signing Phil's contract to sell the farm. When the film cuts back to the scene, we find out that she manages to pull this off for thirty minutes, screaming the whole time.
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Chekhov's Skill: From a bird of all things, whose predilection for putty comes in handy when defusing a bomb.
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Blitz Evacuees: The cousins from London. Though that wasn't the only reason they were sent to the countryside...
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Cool and Unusual Punishment: Nanny McPhee's preferred method of punishment. Won't stop fighting? She will make you beat yourselves up.
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Novelization: This film has one written by Emma Thompson, who plays Nanny McPhee and was the writer for both films. It was her first ever children's book and it takes the form of a movie filming diary mixed in with the film's story.
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"Eureka!" Moment: The kids in the second film have one when they realize it wasn't some military tech or gas that Nanny McPhee used on them, but magic.
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What the Hell, Hero?: Megsie is appalled when she sees Celia wearing her mother's wedding dress, having stolen it from her wardrobe without permission.
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Animal Companion: Nanny McPhee is joined by Mr. Edelweiss, a jackdaw with a predeliction for inappropriate substances, such as putty.
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Wicked Witch: Nanny McPhee takes significant cues from this. She's an old woman who wears a conservative outfit in all black, with an ugly nose, snaggle tooth, and warts, wielding a magic stick. The second film even gives her an animal companion who is strongly implied to be a human she transformed. Of course, she's not actually evil and her witchy elements decrease as the family learns and improves.
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Hollywood Board Games: Proof that the pigs are clever animals is that the buyer claims they can play Scrabble just fine, even those who are unaffected by Nanny McPhee's magic.
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Casual Danger Dialogue: When the bomb hits: When the bomb is about to explode:
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Freudian Slip: When Uncle Phil is under threat from two women who keep talking about taking his kidneys out, he once accidentally blurts out that he'll "lose the kidneys" when meaning to say, "sale".
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But Now I Must Go: As Nanny McPhee says about herself:
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Running Gag: Mrs. Docherty is always doing and saying silly things, such as opening all the flour onto the floor of her store, filling all the drawers behind the counter with treacle, or sitting on a cowpat ("Can I sit on it anyway? It looks so comfortable.").
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Beware the Nice Ones: When the extent of Phil's wrongdoing is finally made known to Isabel, Isabel takes the other end of the manacles he is holding, after his failed attempt at getting the warden to arrest him so he'd be safe, and cuffs him to the stove-rack.
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Brick Joke: At a picnic, Mr. Docherty gives a hypothetical scenario of an enemy pilot with a bad cold sneezing, and accidentally dropping a bomb on the empty countryside, which ends up happening at the climax of the film. Fortunately, the bomb does not immediately explode, and can be defused. Ellie, the elephant that Vincent shared his bed with, who returns to help Celia and Megsie stop Isabel from signing away the farm, by stealing Phil's pens.
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