In Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson returns to the role of the magical nanny who appears when she’s needed the most and wanted the lease in the next chapter of the hilarious and heart warming fable that has enchanted children around the world. In the latest instalment, Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) appears at the door of a harried young mother, Mrs Isabel Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal), who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she’s arrived, Nanny McPhee discovers that Mrs. Green’s children are fighting a war of their own against two spoiled city cousins who have just moved in and refuse to leave. Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and a statue that comes to life to a tree-climbing piglet and a baby elephant who turns up in the oddest places, Nanny McPhee uses her magic to teach her mischievous charges five new lessons. The family comedy is the sequel to 2005’s hugely popular Nanny McPhee, which reportedly took Emma Thompson nine years to write the screenplay.
Release / Airing: 26/03/2010
Locations used for this production:
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Baldock >
The scene where the motorbike is propelled by rockets, and the scene where Nanny McPhee takes the boys to London in the side car. They actually pass a windmill on their journey but the windmill is not really there! It is actually Pitstone Windmill (Buckinghamshire) and has been superimposed onto the screen for this scene.
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Bedford Town >
Road scenes were filmed on location near Baldock. Watch out for the scenes that take place on the journey to and from London with Nanny McPhee and the children on the motorbike passing a windmill and on the way back home when suddenly the bike goes into warp drive! These scenes were filmed in this area but are yet to be verified precisely where.
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