When I first saw trailers for Nanny McPhee, based on the Nurse Matilda book series by Christianna Brand, ahead of its 2006 US release, I wasn’t sure about watching it since I was just entering my teenage years at the time, but the curiosity nonetheless persisted in the back of my mind for some time. On a recent flight, however, I saw this film pop up as one of the in-flight entertainment options, and so I finally found my chance to give it a fair shot. Unfortunately, my experience was marred with a number of sub-optimal conditions, including having to use cheap headphones bought from the terminal after a pair of mine broke shortly before another preceding flight, plane noise necessitating the use of subtitles to understand the dialogue even after turning the volume on my phone higher than I normally would, and very spotty Wi-Fi that lead to connection issues (I could not get my phone to connect properly no matter what I did and ended up having to use another family member’s phone that could) and a near-constant onslaught of buffering, in addition to the film being presented in modified full-screen as opposed to the original widescreen. Despite this, I actually enjoyed Nanny McPhee enough to want to watch it again under more optimal conditions.
