This article was published more than 9 years ago. [15] Entertainment Weekly reviewer Lisa Schwarzbaum gave it its only positive review from a professional film critic, awarding it a B+ and remarking "Attention, university film clubs: Here's your cult-ready midnight-movie programming. But “The Nutcracker in 3D” is too much of a burlesque to create many resounding moral echoes. Although it's based on the same story as the popular Tchaikovsky Christmas ballet, The Nutcracker in 3D is anything but a seasonal treat. Thank you for your patience. Seemingly predicated on the idea that nothing says “the holidays” quite like the Holocaust, “The Nutcracker in 3D” owes as much to Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” as it does to Tchaikovsky. Konchalovsky, the veteran Russian helmer whose films have ranged from “Runaway Train” to “Tango and Cash” (he also co-wrote “Andrei Rublev” with Andrei Tarkovsky) has been at this project for several years, and it’s clear enough that the film has been on the shelf for a while: Fanning, who makes the proceedings far more bearable than they should be, is obviously years younger than the actress who appears in the current “Somewhere.”. Mary, seeing this, goes to N.C. and rubs his hand as we see that he is in fact a human crying with tears of joy that he is human again. If you are looking to give feedback on our new site, please send it along to, To view this site properly, enable cookies in your browser. The Rat king threatens to hurt Mary if she did not tell him where N.C was. Director Konchalovsky stated that the film had been his "dream project" for over twenty years. Welcome to The Globe and Mail’s comment community. Hoffman’s “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” — except here, the mice are Nazified rats, herding the people of old Vienna into labor camps. We hope to have this fixed soon. 351 King Street East, Suite 1600, Toronto, ON Canada, M5A 0N1, Due to technical reasons, we have temporarily removed commenting from our articles. 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[10], On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rare approval rating of 0% – meaning no favorable reviews whatsoever, out of 31 reviews – with an average rating of 2.58/10. Adorned in an SS-style military uniform and a Phil Spector wig, he leads an army of goose-stepping, rat-faced soldiers on a mission to incinerate the children's toys, leaving the skies over Vienna darkened with their smoke. By John Anderson Seemingly predicated on the idea that nothing says “the holidays” quite like the Holocaust, “The Nutcracker in 3D” owes as much to Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” as it does to Tchaikovsky. N.C. takes Mary to the top of the tree to show her his city. The rats are all defeated and overthrown, but now Mary must reluctantly awaken from her dream. Co-written, directed, and co-produced by Andrei Konchalovsky, the film stars Elle Fanning, Nathan Lane, and John Turturro with Charles Rowe and Shirley Henderson as the Nutcracker. Even still, the film’s anthropomorphic aspects seem strongly reminiscent of those in “Maus,” which, like the original “Nutcracker,” was a fairy tale with a tragic foundation. Click here to subscribe. Gayle King Talks Wild Election Night: ‘I Slept in My Clothes and My Spanx’, Diplo Drops $13.2 Million on Kid Rock’s Former Malibu Getaway, The Boat Parade Is Over: Donald Trump Lost 4 of the Top 5 States for Boat Ownership, EA and Take-Two Beat Q3 Expectations With Flagship Releases, 20 Stylish Men’s Watches Under $200 To Wear Right Now. The two come up with a plan to shut down the smoke factory. It begins with an awkward approximation of the story behind the Tchaikovsky ballet, and then turns it into a war by the Nutcracker Prince against the Holocaust. Why Is 'Saturday Night Live' Suddenly Booking So Many Older Rock Bands? © Copyright 2020 The Globe and Mail Inc. All rights reserved. "[11] On Metacritic it has a weighted average score of 18 out of 100 based on 18 reviews, indicating "overwhelming dislike". 6[6], The film was first screened at the European Film Market on 5 February 2009. Readers can also interact with The Globe on Facebook and Twitter . Who considered it even remotely a plausible idea for a movie? [4] They discover that the Nazi-like Rat King (John Turturro) has usurped the Nutcracker's kingdom. Tech credits are mixed: The production design is first-rate but, not surprisingly, the music is inferior to the original. It’s Christmas in 1920s Vienna — someone early on acknowledges Sigmund Freud gliding by on ice skates — and Mary (Elle Fanning) is bright-eyed and expectant. Some information in it may no longer be current. Apparently, he's Uncle Albert Einstein, which is why he's inspired to sing It's All Relative, with lyrics by Tim Rice, set to the melody of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. When Mary and N.C. go to the top of the Christmas tree, they meet a fairy and, as she begins to sing, N.C. looks at his hand, as it begins to turn human. The snow fairy begins to sing and toys appear and begin to ice skate around the tree. [7], The film was announced at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and principal photography took place primarily in Budapest, Hungary that summer, before the set was moved to the Stern Film Studio in Pomáz. Mary and her brother help N.C to defeat the king and restore N.C to his rightful place as prince. "[6], Konchalovsky gave the rats who try to take over the fantasy kingdom Nazi-like qualities in his production, one of the many elements in the adaptation which alienated both critics and audiences. This is a space where subscribers can engage with each other and Globe staff. The 3D isn’t much of a visual asset here, but it might have served as a commercial kickstart for a project that was unmistakably a labor of love, of the sort the French would call l’amour fou. Before the parents depart, jolly Uncle Albert (Nathan Lane) arrives, with a thick-as-strudel Austrian accent and a Don King wig. The two become close friends, and the last shot of the film shows them ice skating together. Add to this the slave-labor elements and “Metropolis”-inspired imagery, and it’s all a lot less First Noel than Third Reich. Although it's based on the same story as the popular Tchaikovsky Christmas ballet, The Nutcracker in 3D is anything but a seasonal treat. N.C goes after them but loses them eventually. Later on in the movie N.C appears to have been killed, but Mary's tears and declaration of love restore him to life and transform him into a prince, his true form. [9][better source needed], The film brought in a total of $20,466,016 worldwide (over half of which came from Russia), making it a box office bomb[3] with a loss of $73,821,041. Suddenly N.C. is starting to turn back in to a doll. As played by Nathan Lane, Albert is a schnitzel-accented Santa Claus who brings gifts for Max and Mary, including what will become Mary’s most cherished possession — a mechanical wooden nutcracker (with the voice of Shirley Henderson). The Nutcracker in 3D (released on DVD as The Nutcracker: The Untold Story) is a 2010 British-Hungarian 3D Christmas musical fantasy thriller film adapted from the ballet The Nutcracker. Many of the songs are based on the ballet's dances.
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