The Nutcracker: The Untold Story (2010)

Better Late Then Never

Absolutely Fantastic

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

A dark adaptation. far to be awful but not enough for seduce. for adults, it has many good details, from the status of political satire to the references to Christmas and Grinch, reasonable performances and good occasion to discover Sigmund and Albert in not expected context. for children, it is real difficult to say if the film could be useful. because the ambition of director seems chaotic. and the lead desire, after its end, is to read to child the book of Hoffmann. the basic sin of film - it is a Konchalovsky one. and not only the expectation is high but the desire to meet a decent adaptation. sure, 3D and special effects are good points. but not exactly the convincing arguments. for children it is a too dark movie, for adults is far to be the version of the well known tale. it seems a moment of circus. many illusions, no crumb of truth. or emotion. and that is a real sad detail.

I don't usually do this. I don't really care enough to post on here, but for this travesty of a movie I had to register. This film has: horrible acting, horrible plot, horrible script, rotten to the bone. I have no idea for whom this movie was made, in appropriate for children boring and immature for adults. The only saving grace is that they spent 90 million on it and only got back a few grand. Anyone associated with this piece of crap should be ashamed of themselves. PS: I'm willing to bet money that anyone giving this a positive review is either associated with the film and has no soul, or has recently been the victim of a horrible TBI.

Entertaining film for children. I will not allow political prejudices to cloud my feelings about this film. The principal characters and their dialogue is easy to follow for children, costumes are colorful and location/scenery is pleasant. All pluses for children. If you are looking for period ballet sequences, you should not view. Again, this film is most agreeable to children - all my grandchildren enjoyed this film, and have asked to view it more than once. My only regret is that I should have waited until December to allow the young ones to view this Christmas theme.Don't allow the distraction of others with political agendas to influence your decision to allow children to enjoy this excellent work.

Today I will be brief. Do not think - I have not decided to join United Russia, no. Just what I saw today on the screen of your monitor and what I've read on the same screen a little earlier a few slightly earlier does not correspond to one another. But - in order.What is read.The film "The Nutcracker and the Rat King" in runet became famous even before its premiere in Russia, because originally it was in the U.S., and with a budget of 90 million green gathered only 200,000 of these. If someone does not understand - it's not even a failure, it's just a total, deep, and the final Paye, who basically scared to imagine any producer or investor. This is not "Imminence Nikita Mikhalkov, where" money on the screen, it's something more disastrous.Also about the film was known that the role of voicing Phil Kirkorov, Pugacheva, and other reptiles, listen to which there is no special interest. Well, everything else, Konchalovsky gave some great, but terribly incoherent interview on the film, which was unable to properly answer a single question in the style of "And what you have here leshego rat-fascists? And what do they sing? ". And finally - U.S. critics have not understood the film and called it a dark horror movies, but not children's tale, and American children, according to reviews, write, and fled from the hall. I will say about it.In the meantime, I'll tell you - "The Nutcracker" is certainly very far from a true masterpiece of the national tale, an animated cartoon "Our Masha and the Magic Nut", about which so beautifully told us someone Madison. In the commercials shows a good half of the cartoon, so it is strongly recommended for viewing, in order to estimate the extent of idiocy. Unfortunately, the full matyugov.Thus, in preparation for viewing this opus, in my mind swarmed different thoughts about deterrence gag reflex. Given the fact that the film is a fairy tale - and I hate children, and all have been associated with, or rather do not like it when something is explained by "a child", and even more do not like when the children sing. Second in the film as expected, because this child fairy tale musical. So that was prepared in a plastic bag, trash and narkomovskie program.What he saw.And here's a beautiful outcome of all this. Funny that what I saw on the screen, did not cause me to outright disgust, which, in theory it should be. That is, the aversion was caused, but the. Besides, I make allowances for the very nasty children who play major roles, as well as the terrible voice acting voice.The rest - on solid three points with a plus. The film, of course, filmed in a clear style sort of surrealism - apparently trying to imitate the "Alice in Wonderland" as the most severe in the contemporary film genre, Konchalovsky too far with the images. Clearly borrowed from Warhammer towers emerge from their rat-fascists, the Nazis themselves rat on dzhetpakah - it's still bearable, but when it turns out that the rat-fascists living by burning toys, and all the toys as soon as said in the beginning, LIVING ... In short, I do not envy the kids who watched this movie. Of course, this is a very interesting method to tell about the Holocaust, moreover, that in America a lot of supporters who are very fond of this theme ... ahem ... I'm clearly behind those words have been sentenced to death publicly in Aileu usr '... Well, okay.So, the rats in the film really live by burning toys, smoky black smoke that veiled the sun, which is the main enemy of the rat - the type, the forces of darkness and all that. Given that the main voice of the rat says Kirkorov (sorry the original is not Michael Jackson), then you can deploy the theme of Good and Evil, but we will not go into details of the local mythology. In short, rats live as a working population is suffering, getting them toys. Gestapo is not asleep, the rats on dzhetpakah overlook the neighborhood and knocked the guerrillas, well, everything. Damn, I can not ... Really - look already own. I further impressions.Thoughts and Conclusions.Go tell that good in the film. Good exactly one thing - the beauty and special effects. Yes, yes, do not laugh. All sustained relatively nice eyes does not hurt, though a miserable modelka Nutcracker of two polygons initially infuriates, but then he turns into a kid and everything is normal. Around all shiny, all fabulous, all the color and foolish - in a word, eye pleasing.Bad that the horrible actors. Children cause aversion, especially the girl who somewhere has already played - in serials, I think. In the House, for example. It is unclear why there is a mandatory negro character - a boy, a drummer who looked like a son of Bob Marley. Where in the original tale was told about blacks? Silly question. Incidentally, among rats, the Negro is not. Paradox.Bad domestic licensing voice. Not bad, just awful. As I said earlier - the characters speak like morons. It is strange - why earlier baby voiced movie fine, but now - whether children believe idiots, or that - but spoken of as the chair read the poems. Slowly, loudly, with emphasis on the word. Darkness.Bad songs. Especially since there are and original music. Texts of course - mascara lights, here again comes to mind "Our Mary" - a level the same. In short, ladies and gentlemen - the film is not really recommended for viewing, especially children and the children. They may like, and they grow by the Nazis. Black humor.