This movie was totally predictable and not that entertaining. By predictable, I mean the scary part of it, you know the nanny is going to be a bad news, you know they are going to find out and eventually save the baby, as scary movies tends to end that way. But even the method of saving the baby was not surprising, as it happened so fast. I saw this because my fiancé wanted to see it so I did not have any interest. The movie starts with the Alan wanting Molly to go back to work even though she has a baby and does not seem to want to leave her him and they seem to have enough money. Yet Molly goes along with Alan and hires a guardian without any questions. I would have expected her to argue or refuse (well refusing wouldn't work because the nanny is how the story starts). As a matter a fact, Molly makes a joke about how she does not trust her husband with the nanny they interviewed (who they eventually hired) because she is so pretty. At that point they were leaning towards this other woman they interviewed who seemed ideal; a college student majoring in education,with an ambition to teach the child to swim. After she dies, they automatically accept this woman no questions asked, even though to me she seemed very strange, getting to involved in things that should not be her business, such as her obsession over her belief of breast feeding. Regardless of all this, the very protective mother, who didn't even want to leave the child in the first place, accepts this nanny and does not even bother to check her references. After that, she lets the nanny practically raise the child, letting her take baths with him naked and the father waled in. Although I have family in England and they are not as uptight with nudidty, (which is fine) I think a nanny bathing with a baby naked would be questionable. This movie contained such annoying nonsense. The nanny actually wanted to kidnap the baby so she could feed it to the tree, and actually she was the spirit of the tree, which is not a particularly scary or interesting story line. They had this really weird sex scene; it is not uncommon for horror movies to have sex scenes, but this was weird. Alan had a dream of the nanny magically appearing and having sex with him, without his concent and it was not like some fantasy or anything; he seemed freaked out. He never seemed interested her that way and she never showed any interest in him romantically or any men for that matter, so what was the point of that scene? As a matter a fact, her only focus was feeding the baby breast milk so she could feed him to the tree. They tried to hook her up with their friend causing him to find out that she was doing something strange in the forest, which he learned when he followed her out one night she had off, to ask her to go out with him. This is not a story line that would be scary for adults; it sounds likes something from a children's fairy tale.
Review of The Guardian
