The Nut Job (2014)

Sadly Over-hyped

People are voting emotionally.

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

I was worried when I noticed that the bird on the shoulder of the animal leader is a Northern Cardinal, visually and internally styled to resemble the Cardinal from the game Angry Birds. My worries were confirmed when I heard the hit song Gangnam Style play almost out of nowhere, as the movie's main characters suddenly started to dance to the said tune. Technically, the story did give characters a reason to do the said short dance when they did it, though in a palpably heavy-handed way. Also technically, all rats animated using modern computer graphics are going to show similarities, but the rat character by the name of Buddy sure does look a lot like the main character of the animated movie Ratatouille. For that matter, all the animal characters resemble the various animals of Dreamworks and Disney films from recent times. This, ladies and gentlemen, sure does feel like a cash-in. Nut Job is a joint venture between South Korean, US and Canadian production companies that shows symptoms of trying hard to capitalise on the western animation market and the pop culture. This is all particularly unfortunate when you consider that actual work was put into this production. Although the movie certainly has other problems, to be discussed shortly, the film does have a plot, it has a number of highly acclaimed actors that do a relatively good job at portraying their characters (however poorly those characters may have been written), and the animation is not terrible, even if rather bland. There are a few funny moments to experience, even though some jokes fall flat. There are certainly worse things to watch out there, but ultimately this Nut Job is botched (Pa-dum tss?). In addition to its irritating exploitative nature, Nut Job suffers from poor writing. The general outlines of the story are simple and clear, but the individual scenes become less and less coherent as time goes by, less and less natural. There are many lines of dialogue that seem like were meant to be funny, or at least there is no other discernible purpose for them, like comments on smelly farts, but they aren't in fact funny. This is a movie that is mildly entertaining and would probably go over well with young kids alive in the year in which the movie was produced, the year in which the musician PSY was still relevant, but it is unfortunate that a movie with so many good actors and such a budget is so average. The cash-in was successful, however. The movie more than made back its investment. I will not however be watching Nut Job 2. I'd have to be nutty to do that....Eh? Eh? Shut this down.

Pretty much what my title says, is my review.Animation that would have been amazing in the year 2000, when the PS2 was launched.Terrible voice acting of stereotyped characters.The whole story is nothing new. You've seen it before in "A Bugs Life" and "Over The Hedge". Except both of those movies do the job a whole lot better. In fact, this movie just seems (to me) to be a wholesale rip off of "Over The Hedge"Having said all of that, My 5-year-old daughter enjoyed the movie.

The Nut Job(2014) Starring: Will Arnnet, Katherine Heigel, Brendan Frasier, Sara Gadon, Maya Rudolph, Stephen Lang, Jeff Dunham and Liam Nesson Directed By: Peter Lepeniotis Review You know I am not a big fan of animated stuff, unless to me it's nostalgic, from Pixar or Ghibli. But you may have watched Over the hedge and found it amusing, but you have you to be nuts to watch this load of garbage, thankfully me and my whole family are certifiably nuts. The film revolves around a squirrel who's name I don't care to remember voiced by Will Arnett who is a master thief for getting nuts for him and his partner who doesn't speak. When he destroys the tree where the animals live in the park he is banished to our side and has a hard time getting until he sees a Nut shop that is owned by thieves trying to rob a bank next door. He intends to redeem himself by devising to steal all nuts for the park but when a plot unfolds to sabotage him, he must stop the raccoon voiced by Liam Nesson and get those nuts. Boy did what I write just sound stupid, If I could give an award for worst animated film of the year, I would give it to this film. Will Arnnet sounds like he really should be squirrel but only he'd be one smoking a joint. This film is one of the reasons I hate animation, not only is it a cartoon and not live action which I can take more seriously but it's borderline stupid. The CG animation looks like crap too it's the worst I've seen since Food Fight. This animated over the hedge rip-off is one of the worst films of the year. You must stay away at all costs cause trust me you'd probably rather watch The Legend of Hercules then this. I give The Nut Job half out of five.

Honestly this movie was disappointing, especially after all the good things I heard about it. The textures in this movie were so terrible that I couldn't stop getting annoyed watching them. Same jokes, same action. Feels like the whole plot was dull and made up within a lunch break. Characters don't stick and by the end you don't feel very connected to anything. You don't get that feeling of satisfaction or emptiness after a movie ends, no emotions whatsoever, and that to me is a failed movie.For children though, it's alright, but even kids had enough nut jokes in one hour...