The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (2017)

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

I saw the sequel to "The Nut Job" right after finishing the first one, making it a double feature picture night. I wasn't impressed with the original, but wasn't disappointed either as I enjoyed it with no major expectations going in. The same thing happened after watching "The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature"."The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature" follows the events of the first movie, centering once again on Will Arnett's squirrelly character, Surly. This time the gang's mission is to stop the Mayor from bulldozing the park and replacing it with an amusement park. A thing that happens too often in the real world, green zones getting paved and constructions getting build on top of them.The human characters were all horrible people and, if I didn't yet find myself rooting for the animals before, I certainly did after seeing the terrible intentions of the humans. On the other hand, the street mice were a terrific addition to the movie, with the leader voiced by Jackie Chan turning them into a deadly martial arts gang. One of my favorite characters from the first movie was Buddy, the mute rat partner of Surly, who unfortunately, I think, didn't get enough screentime in the sequel."The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature" didn't succeed at the box-office and the released date was pushed multiple times, but it's still an uplifting animation that will leave kids and adults lighthearted.

Surly Squirrel (Will Arnett) and Andie (Katherine Heigl) are back with the rest of the gang and are troubled with an all important mission to accomplish. The evil and corrupt Mayor of Oakton City (Bobby Moynihan) has decided to bulldoze Liberty Park and build a self-serving, but dysfunctional, amusement park. The world is dangerous enough, but Surly and his animal friends need to make a shambles of the amusement park in order to defeat the Mayor and take back the park which is home sweet home. And believe it or not, a gang of Chinese rats from another part of town decide to join in the rescue operation. This is less tedious than watching a certain bunch of obnoxious chipmunks. The animation is well done and visual effects are vibrant. A fun watch for all ages.Other voices that make this NUT JOB come alive: Jackie Chan, Tom Kenny, Bobby Cannavale, Jeff Dunham, Isabela Moner, Peter Stormare, Kari Wahlgren and Maya Rudolph.

The life of ease, with all the animals getting "lazy, spoiled, and fat" comes to an end. The mayor has decided the park should be an amusement park, depriving our critters from their home. Our anarchist animals fight back. There are lessons about working together, friendship, and not spontaneously singing.Jackie Chan voices a martial arts mouse whose hands are "weapons of mouse destruction" Yes, it was that type of humor. Fun for adults too. Chan had a line that made me think of the Niemöller quote.

The Nut Job 2 starts out O.K. you think you are watching a normal animated movie with your kids, but it escalated quickly to excessive violence and property destruction. Revolting Jokes about eating puke. Summery The nut shop explodes, An evil politician destroys the park. There is no progression of force just angry violence. The animals attack people who did not knowingly do them any harm. The animals burn the place to the ground. Over time the people rebuild the park. Do not let your kids watch this.It plays more like a Marxist propaganda movie them a kids movie.