Sneaking down to the kitchen, they whack the cook (Imelda Staunton) over the head with a frying pan before tying her up and ransacking the larder. They drive their seventeenth nanny screaming from the house after pretending to eat the baby, and one brother routinely decapitates dolls and teddy bears with his guillotine. The situation is so bad the local employment agency refuses to answer Mr. Brown’s (Colin Firth) inquiries for more help.
Fortunately, Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) doesn’t work for the agency. Arriving unbidden on the family’s doorstep, the bulbous-nosed woman with the warty chin and black attire immediately takes measures to restore peace.
Given the challenge of a new victim, Simon (Thomas Sangster) and his siblings assume they can run off this hired help as easily as the others. They introduce themselves with bogus names (body parts and bathroom terminology), intending to rattle her. But Nanny McPhee, unruffled by their rude humor, insists on proper manners and uses her magical touch to enforce them. With firm but tender composure, she ensures the rowdy offspring experience the consequences of their choices
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