I have noticed a trend over the last several years in which just about every film that features a female character with magical powers uses the song “Every Little Thing She Does is Magic” either in the trailer or the film proper (or possibly both). It has been in the trailers for both Nanny McPhee and Nanny McPhee Returns (just where is she returning from anyway?) and the credits for Bewitched (and possibly at some earlier point in Bewitched – I haven’t seen the whole movie, just the credits). This list I just came up with does not look too long, actually … can anyone else think of any others? I feel like there must have been more, or maybe it just started feeling that way when the Police made their third appearance. The second time was already overkill, so the third time would then naturally give one a sense of ubiquity. Anyway, are all the little things that Nicole Kidman and Emma Thompson just as magical as everything else they do? Has this crutch of a song given us the wrong impression, or is there no magical deed too small for magical folk, just as there is no evil deed too small for evil folk?
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