Surly is a person aside, an independent operator, who could have nothing to do with Raccoon (Neeson) and the other animals who dwell in Liberty Park. There's a shortage of nuts and different food, so the prospects for the coming winter look bleak. Raccoon dispatches the sturdy-willed Andie (Katherine Heigl) and self-centered Grayson (Fraser) to the identical street vendor’s cart. Between them and Surly and Buddy combating over the cart, things go awry, what little meals the animals do have stored for winter is destroyed and, lastly, Raccoon banishes Surly from the park.
Focused totally on one location, the cartoon is filled with exhausting visual mayhem. Some jokes land, but most children over 10 will roll their eyes. (Maya Rudolph’s turn as a dopey pooch is an unpredictable highlight.) Sadly, mice and moles dancing jubilantly to “Gangnam Type” would have worked higher a year ago. On the plus aspect, the movie, set in the late 1950s (which explains the mobster-moll banter all through), appears to be like actually good, with a pleasant heat glow to its autumn colors. On the unfavorable side, an animated version of Psy, kicking relevance to the curb, comes out on the end and sings “Gangnam Type” over the closing credits.
Surprisingly, beneath the bonks to the head and flatulence gags there’s not a nasty story right here and plenty of political subtext. “The Nut Job” is a few corrupt raccoon (voiced by Liam Neeson), who manipulates meals supplies and maintains worry to wield power. A maverick squirrel (Will Arnett), ostracized from the group for being too impartial, ends up working with a righteous girl squirrel (Katherine Heigl) to save lots of the day. Their goal: a nut retailer, which can be a entrance operation for movie-noir-type human financial institution robbers.
Will Arnett voices Surly Squirrel, a loner and iconoclast disinclined to join the collectivist group of squirrels, rats, moles, and other furred foragers that share the identical park. But when the food supply runs low, he agrees to lead a heist on a nearby nut shop, which itself is the front for some hooligans planning a financial institution job of their own. There’s no scarcity of bad guys right here everyone’s a rat, so to talk, from the human heavies and Neeson’s raccoon demagogue on right down to a menacing gang of precise rats and not one of the good guys are all that fascinating, both in idea or execution (the voicework is generally shrugging and in the case of Arnett aggressively uningratiating). But the richly hued CG animation is sort of good - a mixture of hyperdetailed character work and painterly cityscapes and pastorals and the script putters together with small but regular amusements.
Focused totally on one location, the cartoon is filled with exhausting visual mayhem. Some jokes land, but most children over 10 will roll their eyes. (Maya Rudolph’s turn as a dopey pooch is an unpredictable highlight.) Sadly, mice and moles dancing jubilantly to “Gangnam Type” would have worked higher a year ago. On the plus aspect, the movie, set in the late 1950s (which explains the mobster-moll banter all through), appears to be like actually good, with a pleasant heat glow to its autumn colors. On the unfavorable side, an animated version of Psy, kicking relevance to the curb, comes out on the end and sings “Gangnam Type” over the closing credits.
Surprisingly, beneath the bonks to the head and flatulence gags there’s not a nasty story right here and plenty of political subtext. “The Nut Job” is a few corrupt raccoon (voiced by Liam Neeson), who manipulates meals supplies and maintains worry to wield power. A maverick squirrel (Will Arnett), ostracized from the group for being too impartial, ends up working with a righteous girl squirrel (Katherine Heigl) to save lots of the day. Their goal: a nut retailer, which can be a entrance operation for movie-noir-type human financial institution robbers.
Will Arnett voices Surly Squirrel, a loner and iconoclast disinclined to join the collectivist group of squirrels, rats, moles, and other furred foragers that share the identical park. But when the food supply runs low, he agrees to lead a heist on a nearby nut shop, which itself is the front for some hooligans planning a financial institution job of their own. There’s no scarcity of bad guys right here everyone’s a rat, so to talk, from the human heavies and Neeson’s raccoon demagogue on right down to a menacing gang of precise rats and not one of the good guys are all that fascinating, both in idea or execution (the voicework is generally shrugging and in the case of Arnett aggressively uningratiating). But the richly hued CG animation is sort of good - a mixture of hyperdetailed character work and painterly cityscapes and pastorals and the script putters together with small but regular amusements.
