The magic's back, warts and all.

Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she’s arrived, Nanny discovers that the children are fighting a war of their own against two spoiled city cousins who have just moved in. Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and a statue that comes to life to a tree-climbing piglet and a baby elephant, Nanny uses her magic to teach her mischievous charges five new lessons.
In Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “magical household”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing family, authority, war, magic.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Season of the Witch (2011)E8/E9 · authority, war
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000)E8/E9 · authority, family
Return to Halloweentown (2006)E8/E9 · authority, family
Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus (2005)E8/E9 · authority, family
Spellbound (2024)E8/E9 · authority, family
Strange Magic (2015)E8/E9 · authority, magicThe same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)E12/E14 · rare rung · authority, war
WarGames (1983)E12/E14 · rare rung · authority, war
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)E6/E11 · rare rung · family, war
Starship Troopers (1997)E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, war
Warcraft (2016)E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, war
Return to Oz (1985)E10/E13 · rare rung · authority, magicOther films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)consciousness in monsters · garden micro-civilization
Nanny McPhee (2005)consciousness in monsters · magical Victorian household
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)consciousness in monsters · fairy‑human conflict
Onward (2020)consciousness in monsters · elfic suburbia
Son of the Mask (2005)consciousness in monsters · mythic god suburbia
The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two (2020)consciousness in monsters · magical christmas villageThe same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Water Horse (2007)consciousness in animals · authority, family
Doctor Strange (2016)consciousness in aliens · authority, magic
Brave (2012)consciousness in animals · authority, family
Shazam! (2019)consciousness in abstractions · family, magic
Lilo & Stitch (2002)consciousness in aliens · authority, family
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018)consciousness in objects · authority, familyShared director or cast.