Her generous consistency caused a minor population crisis, the house overcrowded with tiny wooden men brandishing Yuletide chompers.
Thus do I consider myself the target demographic forThe Nutcracker and the Four Realms, Disneys new holiday fantasy.
Short version of this review: Too many realms, not enough nutcracker.
Credit: Laurie Sparham/Disney
But there is one lovely dance number.
And a gigantic mouse thats actually (gross!
a swarm of mice moving as one.
No other film, I tell you, not evenSuspiria.
Nutcrackerstars Mackenzie Foy as Clara, an inventive teen in horsedrawn-carriage London.
Her mother just died, because Disneys got a dead-parent quota to meet.
That sequence is a wonder.
The movie itself just stops to watch her dance for awhile.
I wish it stopped entirely.
Nutcrackercredits two different directors, Lasse Hallstrom and Joe Johnston.
At least this One deserves to be Chosen.
Lets give her a real movie and find out.C
