brilliant actors, brilliant editing

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

From what I've heard, this looks even WORSE than the Emoji Movie. That may not be saying much, but it still feels like something Sony Pictures made that's WORSE than the Emoji Movie. WHY WERE JIM CUMMINGS AND JEFF BENNETT IN THIS MOVIE??!! The animation is HORRIBLE!!! It makes the Emoji Movie look like a Universal-DreamWorks Movie!!! It's the 1999 equivalent of Rapsittie Street Kids. Still doesn't change the fact that that movie is worse. Why tell the story of the Nutcracker through the perspective of the food?? THIS MAKES NO SENSE!!!! THIS FEELS LIKE SOMETHING THE NOSTALGIA CRITIC SHOULD DO!!!!!It was a straight to video movie that was made by Sony Pictures. Yes, even before the days of Sony Pictures Animation. You though the Star was bad? You thought Eight Crazy Nights (a Hanukkah movie) was bad? The Nuttiest Nutcracker was even worse. I don't know if the Nuttiest Nutcracker is worse than the Emoji Movie or not, but it kind of looks worse. Jerry Smith doesn't know any better. You wanna know what's worse? The Nuttiest Nutcracker even had a TV appearance on CBS!!! I'm not joking. This was aired on CBS of all channels!!!! CBS literally AIRED this Atrocity. Just like how the WB aired the Rapsittie Street Kids.

I am a huge fan of animation, and I was fairly interested in seeing The Nuttiest Nutcracker. And I have to say it certainly lives up to the tag-line, it is indeed a nutty twist on the classic tale.That said, I am not entirely sure whether that is a good thing or not. The Nuttiest Nutcracker is not a terrible film, I have seen far worse, but I don't think it is a particularly good one either.Starting with the good aspects, I do think the voice cast are great, especially James Belushi who seems to be having a ball as Reginald. The writing is very funny, with again the best coming from Reginald. On the most part the music is serviceable, with some snippets of the timeless Tchaikovsky ballet, some decent additional music and tolerable enough songs with the best being Reginald's, though the funky vocals in the gospel-like song were cool.Conversely, I would be lying if I said the animation was great. It isn't, in fact to me it was quite bad, with some robotic character animation in the confrontation between the mice and the soldiers/nuts/veggies at the start, flat colouring and some backgrounds that aren't bad as such but nothing special either. Another big problem is the story, which has a wonderful idea but constantly jumps around and is not very succinct at all. I also felt that Marie was a rather dull character, not much is done to make her interesting or to make us connect with her.All in all, not bad, not good. After watching, I immediately sat down to watch The Nutcracker Prince, which is another (more faithful) take on the story and is infinitely better in telling its story. 5/10 Bethany Cox

The Nuttiest Nutcracker is very kid friendly movie.i like it now even though i'm 17 now.it's was my first VHS.this movie isn't so bad like IMDb say 3.4/10.it's not horrible at all and it's not an idiot film and love this movie of course.people don't like this,because like to watch action movies and black comedy's,but this movie isn't bad at all.it's actually family movie too and it's one of my all time favorite animation films.i recommend it. it's was without a doubt one of best animation movies in 1999. movies speaks about evil mouse king who wants to be master. movie title song is original Nuttiest Nutcracker song what sing Grammy winner Peabo Bryson.

Fun premise, horrible execution. It's as if Columbia/Tri Star handed the weak script to a bunch of student programmers. It's unfinished in places. Their teacher woulda failed em. The graphics are so lame I could play Quake II and enjoy the graphics better.The plot skips around like a record. (SPOILERS??)Heck where'd grandpa come from in the end. Thought he was still captured.Tactics also suck. The physics also suck. Pretty much an idiot film.But I think the kids will love it. Although I'm surprised Veggie Tales haven't sued them yet. This movie stole their idea outright, and copies Candy Land in the process.4/10Quality: 1/10 Entertainment: 4/10 Replayable: 6/10Kid friendly?: 7/10