Title: Not Bad
Review: I don't mean "not bad" in the colloquial sense (meaning "good") but not awful.It is kind of splitting hairs to find fault with this for not following The Nutcracker ballet's plot--the story was changed so much from Hoffman's tale when they made it into a ballet.But the fact is, despite the title, you can't use this movie to introduce your child to the ballet. Not one dance appears in its entirety, the music is utterly out of sequence, they added characters and deleted them with what seems a careless disregard for the story we have become familiar with. (Why did we need a bat with an English accent? Why a rock monster? Why kill off Clara's parents and change her brother's name?)It's a cute, albeit obvious, story, and the animation is good. If they had called it "Barbie's Sweetland Adventure" I would have given it three stars, but to call it "Barbie in the Nutcracker" is just false advertising.
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