Review #23 | The Nut Job

The Nut Job plays good humor, has good animation, and an amiable moral about sharing.

The Nut Job, 2014

In animated 3D, “The Nut Job” is an action-packed comedy that follows Surly (voiced by Will Arnett), a mischievous squirrel, who must plan a heist to get into his town’s biggest nut shop in order to help his pals in the park gather food to survive the winter. Together with his sidekick, Buddy, he will assemble a ragtag crew to help him get inside – and take them on a fun-filled adventure they’ll never forget.

I was actually surprised of the animation in this movie. Considering this movie used the budget of $42.8 million it has some clean good animation. What I liked about the movie was its story and comedy. I must say it was not good but it was not horrible.

Side characters were annoying but I loved the character of ‘Buddy’. His character is the character that I as an audience cared about. The story had two things going on. One was animals searching for food and human thieves trying to rob the bank.

Basically this is like Over the Hedge but its better. I don’t know why other critics don’t like this movie, maybe I had low expectations but this was actually fun and entertaining. It has a villain and a protagonist and some lame side characters like ‘Grayson’.

The comedy plays a big role in this film and keeps audience entertaining, at least for the kids. It does have a moral ending that sharing is a better way to live. It wasn't disturbing but acceptable and cute.

Inside Outside Rating: 67%