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The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky is arguably the most famous and cherished ballet ever created and there have been countless adaptations of it. And "Nutcracker 3D" is probably the worst one of all.First off, I did some research on the original ballet from 1892, and there's a limited amount of material from it to make a movie to begin with. As a result, expanding on the story is required to create a proper Nutcracker film. But even so, Tchaikovsky's work is eviscerated here. The film bears little resemblance to the Nutcracker story. Elle Fanning plays a Clara stand-in named Mary. Uncle Drosselmeyer is replaced by Albert Einstein (Nathan Lane) for some reason. The story takes place in early 20th century Austria instead of the correct 19th century Germany, but even then, nobody speaks with an Austrian accent. And, finally, the Nutcrackers world is turned into a steampunk styled kingdom. It's all so different, you'd be forgiven for initially thinking this isn't even a Nutcracker adaptation.No question, the main reason this film was so panned was because it was essentially an allegory to the Holocaust by portraying the rats as Nazis and showing them systematically exterminating living toys by burning them in factories or in public to block out the sun and publish and spread propaganda about a RATification policy. This portrayal of the rats was unnecessarily morbid and in very poor taste. I'm all for teaching kids about the Holocaust, but this just made the film too dark and disturbing for such an audience.Nazi imagery aside, this film was chock full of disturbing scenes that would terrify children. The poorly rendered CGI model of the Nutcracker himself looked very creepy with his bulging, lifeless eyes and flapping head, and the Rat King's face morphing and showing his prominent teeth and gums was the stuff of nightmares. And that's not all; we see a Shark being electrocuted to death in a big fish tank, the Rat King decorating his fortress with photographs of sobbing children, and Sticks (Africa Nile), the drummer boy, gets his head ripped off so the Rat King and his soldiers can play catch with it! What was Konchalovsky thinking?!The acting and dialogue were poor for the most part and few of the characters were likeable. I know she was very young at the time, but Elle Fanning tended to speak in a bored sounding monotone, Max (Aaron Michael Drozin) was an irritating brat who liked to break toys, and Shirley Henderson performed the Nutcracker with an annoying high-pitched voice and tended to be rude and dismissive toward Mary. Nathan Lane's fake German accent fools nobody. Only John Turturro was fun to watch with his wacky villain performance, even though he's playing an Adolf Hitler/Andy Warhol hybrid dictator.But worst of all, the Nutcrackers prolific songs that everyone knows and loves, like the "Nutcracker Suite", "Sugarplum Fairy", and "Waltz of the Flowers" are all butchered with the addition of God-awful lyrics from Tim Rice and bad singing. There wasn't even any ballet dancing. It's all so distorted and jarring, it feels like a slap in the face to fans of the original work.Visually, though, the magical world that Mary dreams up actually looks pretty good. From the buildings and city streets of the Nutcrackers kingdom to the interior and exterior of the Rat Kings steampunk castle everything looked impressive. The costumes looked nice too, if you don't count the rats Nazi uniforms. The steampunk technology, like the helicopter, robotic dogs, and motorcycles were cool, even if they felt out of place in a Nutcracker film. They really could have created something better than this if they'd left the darkest elements out.Overall, I was surprised and disappointed that Andrei Konchalovsky was behind this, seeing as how he won a Primetime Emmy for creating "The Odyssey" miniseries back in 1997, which I enjoyed. Plus, with a $90 million budget to work with, he could have done better if he'd been more faithful to the ballets source material, had a lighter and more kid friendly story, and steer clear of any Nazi imagery. But the saddest part of all is that for twenty years this was his dream project, but how he thought mixing it with the Holocaust was a good idea is beyond me, because he wound up creating not only the worst Nutcracker adaptation of all time, but also one of the worst Christmas films ever.

This movie has a few redeeming qualities. The effects are decent, the visuals are impressive, and most of the adult actors play their part well. The story, though convoluted and somewhat confusing, isn't particularly boring, and for the most part manages to keep the audience interested.But, with that said, these still do little to salvage the film.This movie is perhaps the most cruel, bad-taste, tone-deaf film I have ever seen in my life, mixing a distorted version of the Nutcracker story with allegories to Nazi Germany, genocide, and the Holocaust. The antagonist Rat King and his rat soldiers wear Nazi-style uniforms and proclaim the foundation of a "thousand-year empire" - an obvious allegory to Adolf Hitler's "thousand-year Reich".But the Nazi-esque rat imagery isn't a simple "bad guy" motif. No, they go the whole way and have the Rat King declares that, in due time, he will exterminate all non-rats and toys as part of his "RATification" policy (again, an obvious reference to the "Final Solution").And if that wasn't bad enough, the Nazi rats actually round up toys by the thousands, pile them in the city square, and burn them in ovens - smokestacks, slave laborers and all - while dancing and singing to renditions of Tchaikovsky's music.Talk about bad taste! I think my jaw hit the floor when I saw that scene! I've seen movies that are tone-deaf, but this is something on a whole different level!And that's not to mention the other disturbing visuals, such as the rats ripping off someone's head and playing catch with it, or the grotesque rat-teeth effects (which would surely frighten any young child unfortunate enough to watch this film) or the fact that one of the main protagonists has a disturbing and borderline-psychotic habit of breaking and burning toys for no discernable reason.Way too dark and way too disturbing for any kid's movie - let alone a Christmas movie and especially the Nutcracker story.In short, "Nutcracker: The Untold Story" should have really stayed true to its name and remained untold.

The Nutcracker: The Untold Story

2010

Action / Family / Fantasy / Musical

The Nutcracker: The Untold Story

2010

Action / Family / Fantasy / Musical

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Indeed. This story should NEVER have been told.

Good visuals, but despicably tasteless and tone-deaf

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