The Incredibles 2 (2018): ‘The Parent Super Heroes’ – A Film ReviewĬoco (2017): ‘Pixar’s Dying Grace’ – A Film Reviewīeauty and the Beast (2017) – A Film ReviewĪlice Through the Looking Glass (2016) – A Film Review Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen USA 1940)
James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand, Jim Handley, T. Any spoilers are appropriately marked and, though I personally prefer to know little about a film before seeing it, there is a synopsis below the review for any who wish to see one.īeauty and the Beast(d. Please read ‘ On Reviews‘ for a guide to how I write film reviews. Perhaps being the black sheep of the family and not understanding her present, Clara finds herself going into a faraway land of fairies, dolls, mice and tin soldiers as she looks to find the purpose of her present and unite the four realms she finds there. It feels like a classic Disney tale, though apart from the live action and darker elements but not quite back to the cartoon fun of truly classic Disney.Ĭlara Stahlbaum is a young girl in a broken family, her mother having passed away and some time before had left them some presents for Christmas. There are definitely some worthwhile moments to be seen and it’s technical prowess and design makes for a truly imaginative and stunning look, but unfortunately the story doesn’t allow this to become a thoroughly good watch. Though unfortunately only some actors are truly having fun with the material. It is predictable and tame, stale and simple and yet amazingly stylish. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms allows for very brief entertainment, getting lost when it tries to be anything further. It wont matter for its target audience too much, but struggles to keep the film to have much depth beyond its sparkles and dresses.
She gracefully is there but not there, her mind lost to the games that she plays. With one or two exceptions, Keira Knightly, amazingly, is the only one to really pull off this playfully fake demeanour. But most actors can’t pull the style off. The more rooted character of Clara ( Mackenzie Foy), allows for a good stand in for the story and counterbalances the absolute imagination within other characters. The world is that of a child and it’s majesty is amazingly elaborate. This all manages to make The Nutcracker and the Four Realms simple but beautiful, especially in its design – that amazingly peaks through its, far too rare, nods to Fantasia.
This makes sense tonally as plot points are simple and predictable in a way that adults groan to but children love. If you imagine the characters as toys for children then it makes sense, whilst it also fits the target audience. She doesn’t feel real but that certainly fits the point. Keira Knightley especially does well with this balance.
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There are certain worlds that still have that Tim Burton Victorian darkness but generally characters are larger than life but also full of life. Certainly The Nutcracker and the Four Realms falls into the over the top style that Alice in Wonderland had, though without the Tim Burton feel, whilst also with the colours and over the top-ness that actually crept into Beauty and the Beast (2017). Whatever it’ll try to be, or route it’ll take, remains to be seen. Perhaps its high levels of fantasy relate to the not so long ago released Alice in Wonderland (2010), that Disney had rebooted with Tim Burton in the director’s chair. Perhaps most famous as Tchaikovsky’s ballet, from which some numbers had already seen a Disney iteration within Fantasia, the tale is now a famously told and retold as a Christmas children’s story. The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is the classic Christmas tale of a fantasy land populated by toys, dolls and mice. This isn’t always the case, Beauty and the Beast(2017) had unnecessarily dark moments instead and kept, though a rather stuck and rigid looking, musical side. The fantasy-like colourful cartoons give way to the mud and blood that characters have to fight through. This recent generation of Disney films tends to dispense with the musical numbers to some degree in favour of darker tones and looks. In the recent string of Disney’s grittier live action remakes and reboots, we have The Nutcracker and the Four Realms. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018): ‘Style Over Substance’ – A Film Review
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