YMMV / Nanny McPhee

• Adaptation Displacement: The movie was adapted from a series of books called Nurse Matilda, with several changes.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight:
  • The last person Nanny McPhee helps in the first film is baby Aggie, when she magically returns her mother's rattle to her after it was broken. Mrs. Docherty in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang is revealed at the end to be a grown-up Aggie, who still remembers Nanny McPhee and holds on to the rattle. The fact that the otherwise forgetful old woman still remembers this is a testament to the impact Nanny McPhee had on her life.
  • The last thing Nanny McPhee does before leaving the Browns is to acknowledge the children's deceased mother by bowing her head towards her favorite chair. In Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, the last thing Nanny McPhee does before leaving the Greens is acknowledge the Greens' seemingly deceased father... who turns out to be alive after all.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In the film, Evangeline is walked down the aisle by Nanny McPhee, who acts somewhat motherly towards her in that moment. Kelly MacDonald and Emma Thompson would work together again as daughter and mother in Brave, where MacDonald would be against Thompson's attempts to marry her off.
  • Emma Thompson here plays a Magical Nanny, an archetype whose Ur-Example is Mary Poppins. Thompson would later play the creator of Mary Poppins in Saving Mr. Banks. Talk about meeting your maker.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Kelly MacDonald as Evangeline.
  • Thomas Brodie-Sangster who is best known as Ferb Fletcher and Whitey Winn. Disney Channel would even specifically point out Sangster's role as Ferb in advertising when preparing to air the first film during the run of Phineas and Ferb.
• Squick: Some of the food (like the worms in the sandwiches, the best thin potato gruel with peelings (and a turkey neck) in, etc)
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Naughty as the Brown children are, it's hard not to feel sympathy for these motherless children with a workaholic father, no friends, and the threat of a Wicked Stepmother looming on the horizon...
  • It's also implied that none of their previous nannies ever cared to get to know them individually.
• The Woobie: The Browns, with late Mrs. Brown having died, and poverty breathing down the necks.

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