The Nutcracker

PG

Released Dec 3, 2010

1 hr. 48 min.

Holiday

Musical

Fantasy

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32 Reviews

Tomatometer

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500+ Ratings

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Christmas in Vienna is a dull affair for 9-year-old Mary (Elle Fanning), until her beloved Uncle Albert (Nathan Lane) arrives and gives her a special gift: an enchanted nutcracker. On Christmas night the nutcracker -- named NC -- comes to life and takes Mary to its magical land of sugarplum fairies and talking toys. Mary discovers that the wondrous kingdom faces a dire threat from the evil Rat King, and when the nutcracker is kidnapped, she must rally her new friends to save NC.

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I think that after this film Andrei Konchalovsky's road to Hollywood is closed. 90 million dollars for a catastrophic Nightmare with terrible songs, idiotic allusions to World War II, disgusting graphics and a creepy nutcracker. This is simply a sickening sight and it is doubly sad that well-known English artists, along with the cutie Elle Fanning, wrote themselves into this horror. This is simply a disgrace on an intergalactic scale. 0/10

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/09/24

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Jonathan A

Super awful I wanna get stabbing eye

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

12/28/23

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Kate W

I grew up on this movie. I don't see the hate it is a bit strange but I think it's a fun Christmas movie.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/24/23

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Brighton W

DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE IT'S A BIG PILE OF DOGSH**. IF I COULD GIVE 0 STARS I WOULD I WASTED MY TIME ON THIS EARTH WATCHING ALBERT EINSTEIN AND NAZI RATS.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/22/23

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Christine K

Pretty sure that this movie was generated by a sentient bag of cocaine.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

12/17/23

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Meg R

I really liked it as a kid now again as an adult i dont know why so many people seem to hate it

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/22/23

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Andrey Konchalovskiy

Director

Elle Fanning

Mary

Nathan Lane

Uncle Albert

John Turturro

Rat King

Frances de la Tour

Rat Queen

Charlie Rowe

NC

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Frank Scheck

Hollywood Reporter

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.

Dec 6, 2010

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Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

One of the most misguided children's films ever made.

Rated: 1/4

Dec 3, 2010

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Dana Stevens

Slate

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?

Nov 29, 2010

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Konchalovsky takes the basic, very basic, storyline and runs amok with it.

Rated: .5/4.0

Sep 18, 2020

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Brian D. Johnson

Maclean's Magazine

Do not see this movie. Do not take your children to this movie. Do not be tempted by the title, or dancing visions of sugar-plum fairies. Do not put on the 3-D glasses.

Mar 27, 2019

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Rob Vaux

Mania.com

It's flawless in its flaws, without a single redeeming element to obscure its idealized awfulness.

Rated: F-

Dec 24, 2012

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Synopsis

Christmas in Vienna is a dull affair for 9-year-old Mary (Elle Fanning), until her beloved Uncle Albert (Nathan Lane) arrives and gives her a special gift: an enchanted nutcracker. On Christmas night the nutcracker -- named NC -- comes to life and takes Mary to its magical land of sugarplum fairies and talking toys. Mary discovers that the wondrous kingdom faces a dire threat from the evil Rat King, and when the nutcracker is kidnapped, she must rally her new friends to save NC.

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy
Executive Producer: Moritz Borman
Screenwriter: Andrey Konchalovskiy, Chris Solimine
Distributor: Freestyle Releasing
Production Co: Nutcracker Holdings, HCC Media Group
Rating: PG (Brief Smoking|Action|Scary Images|Thematic Material)
Genre: Holiday, Musical, Fantasy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 3, 2010, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 2, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $190.6K
Sound Mix: Dolby