History Film / NannyMcPheeAndTheBigBang

* AccidentalGoodOutcome: When [=McPhee=] uses magic to save Mr. Eidelweiss so that instead of exploding from eating the explosive putty, he just burps instead, his burp ends up harvesting the corn.

Being driven to the brink of exasperation after an elderly Mrs. Docherty (Creator/MaggieSmith) "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 "[[BlatantLies army nanny]]" with magical powers, using them to help teach the children the five lessons they need.

In this 2010 sequel to ''Film/NannyMcPhee'', Nanny [=McPhee=] and the Big Bang, also known as Nanny [=McPhee=] Returns in the U.S., Nanny [=McPhee=] (Creator/EmmaThompson) returns. This time to farm in rural war-torn England. Isabel Green (Creator/MaggieGyllenhaal) plays a beleaguered housewife and three children, who are all [[InsistentTerminology coping]] [[BlatantLies just fine]] with the war, awaiting the return of her husband, Rory Green (Creator/EwanMcGregor). Meanwhile, Isabel has to fend off Rory's brother Phil (Creator/RhysIfans), and his persistent attempts to get her to sell the farm, and deal with the arrival of the children's Londoner cousins.

* BigOlUnibrow: One of Nanny [=McPhee=]'s unflattering features.

* {{Catchphrase}}: Nanny [=McPhee=], small c, big P.

* SheIsAllGrownUp: Mrs. Docherty is revealed to be [[spoiler: Aggie Brown from the first movie.]]

* BrainyPig: 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 [[TalkingAnimal count to ten in French]]. He turns out to be joking for the last one, but he admits that pigs are clever animals.

In this 2010 sequel to Film/NannyMcPhee, Nanny [=McPhee=] and the Big Bang, also known as Nanny [=McPhee=] Returns in the U.S., Nanny [=McPhee=] (Creator/EmmaThompson) returns. This time to farm in rural war-torn England. Isabel Green (Creator/MaggieGyllenhaal) plays a beleaguered housewife and three children, who are all [[InsistentTerminology coping]] [[BlatantLies just fine]] with the war, awaiting the return of her husband, Rory Green (Creator/EwanMcGregor). Meanwhile, Isabel has to fend off Rory's brother Phil (Creator/RhysIfans), and his persistent attempts to get her to sell the farm, and deal with the arrival of the children's Londoner cousins.

* BeCarefulWhatYouSay: 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 the smallest farm kid blurts out "elephant" as his choice, leading up to Nanny [=McPhee=] trying (and succeeding) to hide a literal ElephantInTheLivingRoom.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: When he extent of Phil's wrongdoing is finally made known to Isabel, Isabel takes the other end of the manacles he is holding, after a failed attempt at getting the warden to arrest him so he'd be safe, and ''cuffs him to the stove-rack''.

** 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. This ends up happening at the climax of the film. Fortunately, the bomb does not immediately explode, and can be defused.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mrs. Docherty's a bit odd, seemingly from a mix of old age and innate whimsy. She stores treacle by pouring it into her shop's drawers, decides to sit on a cow pat even after learning what it is, because it looks comfortable, and when her husband, a safety marshal, faints during the bomb defusing panic, she earnestly tries to wake him up [[ComicallyMissingThePoint so he doesn't miss the explosion]].

* ContinuityNod: Mrs. [[spoiler:Docherty turns out to be Aggie, the youngest Brown child from the previous movie, and she still has her precious rattle]].

* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: In the sequel, Mrs. Docherty, the loopy general store owner played by Maggie Smith happens to [[spoiler:know Nanny [=McPhee=] personally]].

* DisappearedDad: Rory Green is away fighting in [[GreatOffscreenWar The War]][[note]]Implied to be UsefulNotes/WorldWarII[[/note]]

* MistakenIdentity: Phil Green initially horrified by Nanny [=McPhee=]'s appearance, fearfully asks if she's Mrs. Biggles.

* TrappedByGamblingDebts: 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 two hit women eagerly want to either collect it, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath or his kidneys]].

** Nanny [=McPhee=] always has five lessons to teach. What exactly those lessons turn out to be, and even anything else the people she helps may learn, is another matter.
** While she is a nanny to the children, not all the lessons are for them. Lesson 5, to have faith, [[spoiler:is implied to apply to Isabel as well as her children]].

* AnimalCompanion: Nanny [=McPhee=] is joined by Mr. Edelweiss, a raven with a predeliction for inappropriate substances, such as putty.

* {{Gasshole}}: Mr. Edelweiss the rook's habit of eating inappropriate substances, such as putty, [[RunningGag consistently]] turns him into one, as it gives him collywobbles.

* RevoltingRescue: In the sequel, Eidelwiess the [[TalkingAnimal talking crow]] inadvertently saves Uncle Phil by burping so hard he blows Phil's would-be killers away.

* AdaptationNameChange: The main character Nanny [=McPhee=] was originally named Nurse Matilda. Emma Thompson said this was changed for a couple of reasons. For one, the term "Nurse" is no longer associated with "nanny", and only calls medical staff to mind. As for "Matilda", they didn't want to use it since it was [[JustForFun/OneMarioLimit likely to remind people]] of [[Literature/{{Matilda}} Roald Dahl's book]].

* AdaptationTitleChange: ''Nanny [=McPhee=]'' was based on a series of books called ''Nurse Matilda''.

** Ellie, the elephant that [[spoiler:Vincent shared his bed with]], who returns to help [[spoiler:Celia and Megsy stop Isabel from signing away the farm, by stealing Phil's pens]].

** She also summons Ellie to steal [[spoiler:Phil's pens, and help Celia and Megsy stop Isabel from signing away the farm]].

* WhatTheHellHero: Megsy is appalled when she sees Celia wearing her mother's wedding dress, having stolen it from her wardrobe without permission.

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