Thompson, writer of both “Nanny McPhee” (2005) and this sequel, has jumped ahead from the vaguely Victorian setting of the original (which matched the Christianna Brand children’s books on which the McPhee character is based) to a bucolic World War II home front in which the Blitz looks like a particularly strenuous summer on the farm. The film was released in Britain in March under the title “Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang,” which was a reference not to the origins of the universe but to a late plot twist involving some unexploded ordnance and the pyrotechnic harvesting of a field of barley. Emma Thompson is back, warts, snaggletooth and all, to teach unruly children lessons in self-reliance and to remind parents that they’re basically useless if sometimes amusing appendages in “Nanny McPhee Returns.”
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