Movie Reviews: Nanny Diaries  

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Starring: Scarlet Johanssen, Chris Evans, Laura Linney
Rating: PG-13 for language
Grade: B-

A 21-year-old New York University student becomes a nanny to a family on the Upper East Side who turns out to be the family from hell.The story of the journey of Annie Braddock, a young woman from a working-class neighborhood in New Jersey, struggling to understand her place in the world. Fresh out of college, she gets tremendous pressure from her nurse mother to find a respectable position in the business world although Annie would prefer to trade in her blackberry for an anthropologist's field diary. Through a serendipitous meeting, Annie ends up in the elite and ritualistic culture of Manhattan's Upper East Side--as remote from Annie's suburban New Jersey upbringing as life in an Amazon tribal village. Choosing to duck out of real life, Annie accepts the position as a nanny for a wealthy family, referred to as simply "the X's." She quickly learns that life is not very rosy on the other side of the tax bracket, as she must cater to the every whim of Mrs. X and her precocious son Grayer, while attempting to avoid the formidable Mr. X. Life becomes even more complicated when Annie falls for a gorgeous Park Avenue Hottie, and she's forced to explore her identity as never before.

Before I get on with my review can I just tell you how frickin' pretty Scarlett Johanssen is? She is beautiful and I wouldn't mind at all if Justin Timberlake wanted to be with her because beautiful people should be with beautiful people. That's just my opinion.

But anyway, on with the review. This movie was cute. It was one of those fluffy movies that you can't help but like. It's not deep, it's not about global warming, the war in Iraq and it doesn't have twenty million people dying or monsters trying to kill you, it's just about a girl who's trying to find out what and who she is because she doesn't know. She knows what she wants to do and she knows what she doesn't want to do and she takes a summer to find out exactly who she is.

And I was digging this whole movie.

From her friendship with Alicia Keys, to her crush on Harvard Hottie and her love for Grayer. I thought it was all just so cute. I loved when she set all of Harvard Hottie's friends straight and told them about themselves, I loved when she won Grayson over and when she finally went on her date with Harvard Hottie, I thought it was so cute. What I didn't like about her was the way that she let everyone walk all over her, especially Mrs. X and her Mom. She never spoke up for herself and even when she finally did, she didn't do it to Mrs. X's face, she did it to a frickin' teddy bear, to a NANNY CAM!

She didn't really get over anything, she didn't face her fears, she almost did but she didn't really do it. The movie would have been so much better, had she done that but beside that little thing, the movie was cute, good and wholesome even. I was glad that we watched this because Chris Evans is too cute.

I hated Mrs. X's husband, I hated Mrs. X too and I hated how the rich people in this movie ignored their kids for the most part and then had all those stupid nanny seminars where they pick their nanny's apart, all in the name of building up their nanny/mommy relationships. It was just so stupid and when Mrs. X got her ass handed to her on that damn silver plattter in the form of Annie telling the teddy bear off and how everyone witnessed it, that was frickin' the bomb because she needed to be told about herself and I'm glad that everyone witnessed her set down.

All in all, this was a cute movie, one that you guys should rent because Chris Evans always makes for a good reason to watch a movie...and Scarlett is just so adorable in this one.

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5 comments

this was cute ol movie. I love harvard hottie. lol

Watched this the other night too. I thought it was cute. Loved Harvard Hottie too.

I actually love Scarlett Johannsen I'll see anything she's in. I have a girl crush on her.

I love Ms. Scarlett too! Cannot wait for the Other Boleyn Girl (also because of ERIC BANA and Natalie Portman).

I think I'll watch this, because of Chris Evans and SJ. hehe My cousin said it sucked though. haha What does she know, right?

Ames,

I'm sooo looking forward to TOBG. Eric, GAWD so hot. Love Natalie and Scarlett too.

I think the problem with the Nanny Diaries is that I think most people who went to see it went expecting a romantic comedy, when the romance bit is very secondary to the story.

The story is focused on Annie, Grayer and Mrs. X and the whole X family dynamic.

I know a romantic comedy is what I expected but I still really liked it.

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