Nutcracker in 3D (2010)
Average Rating: 2.6/10
Reviews Counted: 30
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 30
Misguided, misconceived, and misbegotten on every level, The Nutcracker in 3D is a stunning exercise in astonishing cinematic wrong-headedness.
Average Rating: 3.5/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 13
Misguided, misconceived, and misbegotten on every level, The Nutcracker in 3D is a stunning exercise in astonishing cinematic wrong-headedness.
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Movie Info
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.
Cast
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Elle Fanning
Mary -
Nathan Lane
Uncle Albert -
Frances De La Tour
Frau Eva/The Rat Queen -
John Turturro
The Rat King -
Richard E. Grant
Father -
Yulia Visotskaya
Mother/The Snow Fairy -
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Charlie Rowe
The Prince/Nicholas Cha... -
Shirley Henderson
The Nutcracker -
Richard Philipps
Dr. Freud -
Fernanda Dorogi
Dr. Freud's Niece -
Kriszta Dorogi
Dr. Freud's Niece -
Dániel Mogács
Trolley Bus Orchestra C... -
Stuart Hopps
Butler/The Rat Queen's ... -
Jonathan Coyne
Gnomad -
Peter Elliott
Gielgud -
Daniel Peacock
Gielgud -
Alan Cox
Voice of Gielgud -
Hugh Sachs
Tinker -
Africa Nile
Sticks -
Attila Kalmár
Screech the Bat-Rat -
Bobby Creighton
Screech's Voice -
Ferenc Elek
Lethal the Bat-Rat -
Jason Harris
Lethal's Voice -
Andrea Tallós
Nervous Lady Rat -
György Honti
Rat Captain -
Peter Takatsy
Proud Rat Soldier -
Bela Gados
Rat Soldier -
Jacint Hergenroder
Rat Soldier -
Zoltán Hetényi
Rat Soldier -
Gyula Kormos
Rat Soldier -
Ferenc Kovács
Rat Soldier -
Zsolt Kovács
Rat Soldier -
Krisztina Moskovits
Rat Soldier -
Gabor Nagypal
Rat Soldier -
Barna Ilyes
Slave -
Lilla Karolyi
Little Girl -
Verner Gresty
Little Girl's Father -
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All Critics (30) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (0) | Rotten (30)
Delivering the cinematic equivalent of a lump of coal in a Christmas stocking, The Nutcracker in 3D is an apparent Scrooge-like attempt by Russian filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky to forever ruin children's associations with the classic Yuletide ballet.
Top CriticOne of the most misguided children's films ever made.
This non-balletic adaptation by the Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky is something gnarled and stunted and wrong, something that should never have been allowed to see the light of day. How's that for a holiday-ad pullquote?
[It] has so many terrible ideas that the terrible execution is almost irrelevant: Even if the film were well done, it would still be a travesty.
The Viennese scenes, shot on Budapest soundstages, give a new, dreary meaning to "workmanlike."
Spectacularly misconceived, bloated and incredibly ugly...
It's flawless in its flaws, without a single redeeming element to obscure its idealized awfulness.
A frankly bewildering attempt at serious cinema
I have my theories on the true inspiration motivating the madness here. Something tells me if I bit into the negative, it might taste like whisky, insomnia, and repressed childhood trauma.
The whole thing is just so astoundingly wrongheaded.
One of the most wretched, misguided extravaganzas ever mounted on the big screen...a stale schnitzel.
A Holocaust motif? In a children's movie? 'Based' on The Nutcracker? No, we're not making this up.
An inchoate hash of classical children's themes and twentieth century flashpoints.
The best part of this variation on the classic ETA Hoffmann story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" is Elle Fanning, but it's unreasonable to expect a child to support the weight of a resolutely un-magical fantasy film.
[S]o gloriously horrible that Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is going to have to shuffle over and make some room on the throne of Bad Holiday Movies...
Andrey Konchalovskiy botches history.
Big-screen remake of ballet is too dark for little kids.
Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky claims to have dreamed of making this film for 20 years. Well, his dream is a nightmare.
Vienna. The 1920s. Albert Einstein sings...a world of proto-Nazi space-ranger rats led by a nasty, singing Andy Warhol rodent. But I don't have to tell you the beloved story of The Nutcracker...
A lot happens in The Nutcracker in 3D, little of it of much consequence.
Audience Reviews for Nutcracker in 3D
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- Frau Eva/The Rat Queen: Little girls in love can be VERY dangerous!
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- The Rat King: [to his mother] You appear to be slipping, old gal! Your spell on the prince is broken! He is alive!Alive! And if the other humans find out, my dreams are shattered!
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- Uncle Albert: It's all relative.
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- The Rat King: [to his mother] Turn up your hearing aid, for crying out loud! Do you want to ratify the world or not?
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- The Rat King: Any idiot can face a crisis, but day-to-day living, that wears you down.
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- Mary: You're not unintelligent, for a rat.
- The Rat King: Oh, please.
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- The Nutcracker in 3D (Nutcracker and the Rat King) (DE)
- The Nutcracker in 3D (UK)
