The Nutcracker and the Four Realms Review

Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is a fantasy adventure film that, while a beautifully shot film with interesting ideas, ultimately comes up short due to its inconsistencies in both story and characters.

Directed by Lasse Hallström and Joe Johnston, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms stars Mackenzie Foy as Clara. As she and her family experience their first Christmas without their mother/wife (Anna Madeley). Clara takes it especially hard. A tinkerer like her mother, Clara feels like the oddball of her family. Her father (Matthew Macfadyen) trying to carry on and spend Christmas like they always have. But Clara can’t help but push away as she misses her mother and feels that nothing can be the same. Attending the Christmas party at the home of her Godfather and mother’s adoptive father, Drosselmeyer (Morgan Freeman), she is led into the Four Realms to find her late mother’s final gift to her.

Within the Four Realms, Clara befriends a nutcracker soldier named Philip (Jayden Fowora-Knight) who teaches her of the world. The three regents of the land, Sugar Plum Fairy (Keira Knightley), Chill (Richard E. Grant) and Hawthorne (Eugenio Derbez) rule and protect the lands against Mother Ginger (Helen Mirren) and the Mouse King. This is a gorgeous looking film, the cinematography is top notch, the costumes are bright and imaginative, and the special effects are truly something to behold. A highlight of this film is how well they incorporate ballet into the film. It harken…