The Nutcracker

Name: The Nutcracker
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Family
Released: November 24, 2010
Rating: 18

2010

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Overwhelming dislike based on 18 Critic Reviews

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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 32 Ratings

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Freestyle Releasing | Release Date: November 24, 2010

Summary: Nine-year-old Mary's dull Viennese Christmas is suddenly filled with excitement and adventure following the arrival of her beloved Uncle Albert and his gift of an enchanted nutcracker. On Christmas night, Mary's new friend, The Nutcracker, or "NC," comes to life and takes her on a wondrous journey into his magical world of fairies,Nine-year-old Mary's dull Viennese Christmas is suddenly filled with excitement and adventure following the arrival of her beloved Uncle Albert and his gift of an enchanted nutcracker. On Christmas night, Mary's new friend, The Nutcracker, or "NC," comes to life and takes her on a wondrous journey into his magical world of fairies, sugarplums, and other Christmas toys which come to life. (Freestyle Releasing)… Expand

Director: Andrei Konchalovsky

Genre(s): Action, Fantasy, Family

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Lisa Schwarzbaum

Nov 27, 2010

Terry Gilliam-ish territory here, spiked with imagery from Holocaust nightmares and drug trips. Attention, university film clubs: Here's your cult-ready midnight-movie programming. Read full review

Movieline Michelle Orange

Nov 27, 2010

Somewhere in there is a little blonde girl and her dreamy princeling, but damned if I could see them through the dreck. Read full review

Claudia Puig

Nov 23, 2010

Who had the lamebrained idea for a post-apocalyptic 3-D Nutcracker that is lacking any trace of ballet? Read full review

Roger Ebert

Nov 23, 2010

From what dark night of the soul emerged the wretched idea for The Nutcracker in 3D? Who considered it even remotely a plausible idea for a movie? Read full review

Joshua Rothkopf

Nov 24, 2010

Russian-born schlockmeister Andrei Konchalovsky has flirted with the good kind of bad in the past (Tango & Cash), but here, he's finally made his disaster-piece. Unclean. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Nov 24, 2010

Misconceived, bloated and incredibly ugly fantasy epic. Read full review

J. Hoberman

Nov 23, 2010

The wildest thing about this movie is its faith that what kids (and parents) really want for Christmas is a Nutcracker version of the Final Solution. Read full review

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FilmVirtue

Oct 21, 2014

Not even the lease bit amusing or entertaining, The Nutcracker attempts to pull a entertain but ultimately fails because of It's obtuse story lousy characters.

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GenericReviews

Apr 16, 2021

The most incredible thing about this movie is that the entire film shifts from being a fun children's musical to a rat-holocaust drama about thirty minutes in. Also, Sigmund Freud gets mentioned twice in one kids movie, which has never happened and will never happen again.

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FreedomFighters

Dec 5, 2016

You know...you might be looking at my rating and thinking, "wow, he's gonna tear into this film right from the jump." No no no, I actually have to applaud the film's director, Andrei Konchalovsky, because you really have to TRY to make a movie THIS BLATANTLY BAD. Even if you make a film onYou know...you might be looking at my rating and thinking, "wow, he's gonna tear into this film right from the jump." No no no, I actually have to applaud the film's director, Andrei Konchalovsky, because you really have to TRY to make a movie THIS BLATANTLY BAD. Even if you make a film on autopilot, there's a chance it doesn't end up completely unredeemable. To make a movie this awful, you actually have to walk into the studio, take a deep breath and say, "alright, let's make the worst possible film ever." Konchalovsky, you have succeeded. "The Nutcracker in 3D" (or just "The Nutcracker," if it's not in 3D) is completely unredeemable, and not even because it changes the formula, but because it's just poorly-made on every level. It's poorly acted, it's horribly written, it's filled with cheesy special effects, and it feels way too long. It's 110 minutes long, so we can't really give the film a point for having a compact runtime, now can we? Literally, there is NOTHING GOOD about this film. Not even riffing on the film and making jokes about it with your friends can make this pile of crap any better. I don't think I've ever seen a film that I couldn't say a single good thing about, but low and behold, here it is. I didn't think I'd have to give any 0 out of 10s after "The Cat in the Hat," but then I remembered this exists and that I had to sit through it. This is the absolute worst movie I've ever seen, and if this overly-long review hasn't made the message clear yet, then let me put it out there for you in big, bold letters: DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE! UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD YOU BE FORCED TO ENDURE THIS PAINFUL MESS! Please, stay away from this film at all costs.… Expand

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