Nutcracker 3D - Worst Movie of 2010??

[akiratubo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGxFOkCpR2w

Wow ... that ... that was bad.  It's as if someone purposely tried to make the absolute worst movie trailer of all time.

[tracy]

I  don't know....the trailer didn't help much....I might rent it. I just can't get into all this 3D stuff. I don't really need it to enjoy a film.

[WingedSerpent]

I love how the trailer says "From one of the most beloved stories of all times" then cuts to the people in jet packs.

A steampunk nutcracker could be cool, but this looks like a spy kids wannbe.

[InformationGeek]

If you take this one for the team, you will definitely jump up in my esteem.

InfoGeek, I saw that NUTCRACKER 3D had been released (under a new title---coincidence?), and I immediately thought of you as the person who should take one for the team and watch this atrocity.   

Okay, I watched the damn movie.  You happy?  I watched the entire piece of crap in one sitting to boot!  I better get something out of this...

Anyhow, my thoughts on the movie.  Yep, it sucked.  No doubt about it.  This movie was utter garbage.  First of all, it is a complete failure in being a adaptation of the original ballet.  It barely even goes over any of the points of the original piece.  It uses some of the music, but that is not enough.  Here's a bit of the review I'm working on for my Christmas piece:

They enter the living room to discover everything has grown giant size.  Okay, now we are actually hitting some points from the ballet.  Though that instantly goes away when we meet the cast of the dollhouse, a monkey from Planet of the Apes wearing a suit, an opera singing clown, and a Jamaican drummer.  Again, weird.  With them rounded up, Mary and NC climb to the top of the Christmas tree in the living room to meet with the Snow Fairy, who requests of her to help them defeat the Rat Queen, who had placed the Nutcracker under a terrible curse.  Then suddenly, NC turns into a real boy because... Mary... Ah... because the movie said so and that had to do with Mary for some reason.

Besides the plot, the acting is a joke.  Everyone is over the top [not in a fun way either], underacting, or mugging their way through the piece with execption of Elle Fanning (She's easily the best actor in the whole thing, but that isn't say much).  The CGI is completely unconvincing and is intergrated in poorly.  Instead of dancing, we have musical numbers and all which are terrible; Nathan Lane must never sing again.  The weirdest thing about this film is the overall tone to it.  It really doesn't feel like a kids' film at all with its dark atmosphere, weird imagery, violence, and other things.

I liked some of the set design, some costumes, and an occasional make-up; but that's it.  This movie is just plain bad.  I'm not as angry as I have been with other films before in the past, but doesn't change the fact that I never want to see this film again.  It might be an interesting film to do a riff on (plenty of material, no doubt about it), but still not worth it.

Overall, I give a 2 out of 10.  Not the worst film of the 2010 though, since Standing Ovation was far worst than thing.

[bob]

I have a  new found respect for InformationGeek after surviving through that in one sitting

[Rev. Powell]

InfoGeek, I saw that NUTCRACKER 3D had been released (under a new title---coincidence?), and I immediately thought of you as the person who should take one for the team and watch this atrocity.   

Okay, I watched the damn movie.  You happy? 

Not as happy as I thought I'd be.   

I watched the entire piece of crap in one sitting to boot!  I better get something out of this...

What would you like to get out of it?

[InformationGeek]

InfoGeek, I saw that NUTCRACKER 3D had been released (under a new title---coincidence?), and I immediately thought of you as the person who should take one for the team and watch this atrocity.   

Okay, I watched the damn movie.  You happy? 

Not as happy as I thought I'd be.   

I watched the entire piece of crap in one sitting to boot!  I better get something out of this...

What would you like to get out of it?

Karma, money, a t-shirt that says "I Survived the Nutcracker in 3D", etc.

[Olivia Bauer]

InfoGeek, I saw that NUTCRACKER 3D had been released (under a new title---coincidence?), and I immediately thought of you as the person who should take one for the team and watch this atrocity.   

Okay, I watched the damn movie.  You happy? 

Not as happy as I thought I'd be.   

I watched the entire piece of crap in one sitting to boot!  I better get something out of this...

What would you like to get out of it?

Karma, money, a t-shirt that says "I Survived the Nutcracker in 3D", etc.

You're tempting me to review it. Though it doesn't fit in with my other reviews. Most of my reviews are of old schlock or terrible horror comedies. Maybe I could use a change of pace?

Oh who am I kidding? Schlock is one thing, blowing millions of dollars on a piece of s**t almost always guarantees a boring bad.

[InformationGeek]

You're tempting me to review it. Though it doesn't fit in with my other reviews. Most of my reviews are of old schlock or terrible horror comedies. Maybe I could use a change of pace?

Oh who am I kidding? Schlock is one thing, blowing millions of dollars on a piece of s**t almost always guarantees a boring bad.

Review it.  It is the holidays and I need, no, demand someone else around here watch this thing.

The thing is... this movie isn't boring.  It was too silly and ridiculous not to stare at.  I was fully paying attention to it the entire time.  I couldn't keep my eyes off of it, because I never knew when something else unpredictable and stupid would happen.