The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Directed by Lasse Hallström, Joe Johnston
Starring Mackenzie Foy, Keira Knightley, Morgan Freeman
Running Time: 1 hour, 39 minutes
MPAA rating: PG
By Sandy DeVito, WitchQueen of Darkness
There isn't anything new here in a bare-bones narrative sense (they add some plotty stuff about Clara needing to find a key to unlock an egg her mother gave her posthumously, there's an easily-foreseeable twist 3/4ths of the way through), but there are a hundred tiny details that make this particular project subtly unique in the Disney canon.
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