I was worried when I noticed that the bird on the shoulder of the animal leader is a Northern Cardinal, visually and internally styled to resemble the Cardinal from the game Angry Birds. My worries were confirmed when I heard the hit song Gangnam Style play almost out of nowhere, as the movie's main characters suddenly started to dance to the said tune. Technically, the story did give characters a reason to do the said short dance when they did it, though in a palpably heavy-handed way. Also technically, all rats animated using modern computer graphics are going to show similarities, but the rat character by the name of Buddy sure does look a lot like the main character of the animated movie Ratatouille. For that matter, all the animal characters resemble the various animals of Dreamworks and Disney films from recent times. This, ladies and gentlemen, sure does feel like a cash-in. Nut Job is a joint venture between South Korean, US and Canadian production companies that shows symptoms of trying hard to capitalise on the western animation market and the pop culture. This is all particularly unfortunate when you consider that actual work was put into this production. Although the movie certainly has other problems, to be discussed shortly, the film does have a plot, it has a number of highly acclaimed actors that do a relatively good job at portraying their characters (however poorly those characters may have been written), and the animation is not terrible, even if rather bland. There are a few funny moments to experience, even though some jokes fall flat. There are certainly worse things to watch out there, but ultimately this Nut Job is botched (Pa-dum tss?). In addition to its irritating exploitative nature, Nut Job suffers from poor writing. The general outlines of the story are simple and clear, but the individual scenes become less and less coherent as time goes by, less and less natural. There are many lines of dialogue that seem like were meant to be funny, or at least there is no other discernible purpose for them, like comments on smelly farts, but they aren't in fact funny. This is a movie that is mildly entertaining and would probably go over well with young kids alive in the year in which the movie was produced, the year in which the musician PSY was still relevant, but it is unfortunate that a movie with so many good actors and such a budget is so average. The cash-in was successful, however. The movie more than made back its investment. I will not however be watching Nut Job 2. I'd have to be nutty to do that....Eh? Eh? Shut this down.

Pretty much what my title says, is my review.Animation that would have been amazing in the year 2000, when the PS2 was launched.Terrible voice acting of stereotyped characters.The whole story is nothing new. You've seen it before in "A Bugs Life" and "Over The Hedge". Except both of those movies do the job a whole lot better. In fact, this movie just seems (to me) to be a wholesale rip off of "Over The Hedge"Having said all of that, My 5-year-old daughter enjoyed the movie.

A poorly animated, completely unfunny kids comedy about a selfish squirrel who learns nothing, willing to do anything (including lying, stealing and mistreating his friends) in order to bypass a tyrannical raccoon "villain" whose main crime is...storing food for the winter for all his furry friends? And of course there's an animated Psy dancing to Gangnam Style during the credits. Because Hollywood hates you and your children.

The Nut Job us an animated movie, it has quite a bit of action that young children would enjoy. This movie is rated PG, (parental guidance) The Nut Job is a very positive movie that may impact a child's look on how animals survive. This movie may also teach children that even if a person (animal in this case) is mean to you in the beginning, if you keep trying they may warm up to you and you will have a new friend. In the movie The Nut Job a squirrel, and a friend who is a rat try to get into the towns biggest nut shop, so them along with all of their friends in the park have enough nuts to last them the winter. When they soon realize that there is a watch dog, the watch dog barks at the squirrel and rat whenever they enter the shop. The animals make their way to the basement of the shop, where the movie takes an unexpected turn. I hope you will find out if they made it through the Winter!