{"id":26005,"date":"2018-08-08T18:10:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T00:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=26005"},"modified":"2018-08-08T18:03:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T00:03:01","slug":"the-next-really-bad-nutcracker-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/the-next-really-bad-nutcracker-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Really Bad Nutcracker Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sad to say this but our tradition of bashing yet-to-be-released movies of a <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> theme continues. You could say we are compelled to put the screws to the new Nutcracker coming out this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood just gives us no choice.<\/p>\n<p>This time, as other times in the past, the maker of a holiday stinker is none other than Disney.<\/p>\n<p>Out now are some truly bizarre trailers of a butchered Nutcracker story that Disney calls <em>The Nutcracker and the Four Realms<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a2vmAttpgrg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center>As discussed in a recently released edition of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/merry-podcast\/\">Merry Podcast<\/a><\/strong>, the Nutcracker is a 200 year old tale written by ETA Hoffman, then adapted by Alexandre Dumas and then interpreted by music and dance by a Russian ballet company.<\/p>\n<p>The story is a childhood fantasy run amok:<\/p>\n<p>We see them in a typical 19<sup>th<\/sup> century <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> setting around a tree and about to receive their <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> gifts. In waltzes the Toymaker, who impresses them with all manner of wonderful playthings only to put them away for safekeeping while the children go to bed.<\/p>\n<p>As if to satisfy them a little, the toymaker breaks out The Nutcracker, a small wooden device made for cracking nuts that is ingeniously made to look like a little man.<\/p>\n<p>The two central children characters \u2013 Fritz and Clara \u2013 immediately take to the Nutcracker and Clara in particular is quite smitten with it until Fritz seems to break it.<\/p>\n<p>Worried, she gets up in the middle of the night to check on it, and wanders back into the room with the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> tree as the clock strikes midnight and witnesses the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> tree grow to a magical height and the Nutcracker transforms into a life-sized man \u2013 and he\u2019s come to life.<\/p>\n<p>Soon Clara finds herself a witness to chaos as the room fills with Mice and Gingerbread Soldiers, who have come to do battle before her. The fantasy continues, as a lot of little girl fantasies do, involving a prince, dancing fairies and <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">love<\/a> everlasting.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the classic-story-turned-Christmas tradition set to Tschaikovsky\u2019s world famous score and one you would think Disney would embrace in their princess-film traditions.<\/p>\n<p>But these are different times.<\/p>\n<p>It has been nearly a century in the making in America and the story is known and loved like few ballets ever produced.<\/p>\n<p>But nearly every movie version of The Nutcracker bombs. Seriously. Name one that you can remember, much less call good.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that\u2019s why Disney is breaking the bank in producing a hybrid Nutcracker story that mashes up the classic tale of Clara with\u2026I don\u2019t, know\u2026a combination of Narnia, Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings sprinkled with a little Marvelesque pixie dust.<\/p>\n<p>How far does Disney stray from the traditional Nutcracker?<\/p>\n<p>Well, they replace Tschaikovsky with some emo pop tune by No Doubt titled \u201cJust a Girl\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a clue.<\/p>\n<p>They have taken what is brilliant and replaced it with a slick, inauthentic and plastic Christmas-themed franchise formula fantasy that not only is designed for multiple sequels but to also brainwash you with feminist messaging that will, in the end, sap any hope of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> spirit.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s got Morgan Freeman &#8212; inexplicably cast as the very German toymaker &#8212; looking like Mufasa.<\/p>\n<p>Already you can see that this movie cannot decide what it wants to be.<\/p>\n<p>Disney already has a library of really bad <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> movies: Jim Carrey\u2019s <em>A <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Carol<\/em>, <em>The <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> Clause 3<\/em>, <em>I\u2019ll Be Home for <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a><\/em>, and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> Paws 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This one could be the worst of them all.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26006\" src=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/58C015F5-AF21-4C77-8D4E-D4DE1AC8546D.jpeg\" alt=\"The Nutcracker and the Four Realms\" width=\"344\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/58C015F5-AF21-4C77-8D4E-D4DE1AC8546D.jpeg 344w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/58C015F5-AF21-4C77-8D4E-D4DE1AC8546D-210x300.jpeg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad to say this but our tradition of bashing yet-to-be-released movies of a Christmas theme continues. You could say we are compelled to put the screws to the new Nutcracker coming out this fall. Hollywood just gives us no choice. This time, as other times in the past, the maker of a holiday stinker is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":24,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[319,686],"class_list":["post-26005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-movies","tag-disney","tag-the-nutcracker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}