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The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature

2017

Cal Brunker

Animation, Voice: Will Arnett, Katherine Heigl, Maya Rudolph ...

5.0

339

Animation. Comedy. Adventure Following the events of the first film, Surly and his friends must stop Oakton City's mayor from destroying their home to make way for an amusement park.

	Media	Author	Review
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"'The Nut Job 2' lacks several key factors: memorable characters, a fun story, jokes that will appeal to adults as well as little kids. But one thing it does not lack is visual momentum"
		Michael Rechtshaffen The Hollywood Reporter	"Content to recycle everything that worked — and didn’t (...) [Brunker] at least manages to keep all the ensuing chaos at a reasonably brisk clip."
		Kate Erbland IndieWire	"Its messages are delivered in increasingly heavy-handed fashion (...) Even the most compelling lessons of 'The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature' (...) don’t quite stick, if only because they’re delivered in such a slapdash package."
		Rafer Guzmán Newsday	"More hellish than hilarious (...) Frantic, violent and generally unpleasant (...) To 'The Nut Job 2', I say: No thanks (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"
		Katie Walsh Los Angeles Times	"[It] is more, and less, than the average animated sequel (...) This is a film of excesses and extremes (...) It’s an unexpectedly radical, if otherwise rather rote animated sequel."
		Sam Fragoso The Wrap	"'The Job 2: Nutty by Nature' kinda works. In fact, it didn’t take long for this fleet-footed sequel, spry and charming, to win me over (...) All I remember is my smile walking out of the theater."
		Keith Watson Slant	"Loud, bright, and hollow (...) Underwritten characters, slack comic timing, and relatively low-rent animation (...) Tedium quickly sets in, followed by frustration (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle	"[It] is colorful, kid-friendly, and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"
		Kevin Maher The Times	"Derivative, head-wrecking, synapse-splitting tedium (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"
		Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"'The Nut Job 2' is flimsy in the extreme (...) It’s not at all clear why we need another 'Nut Job'. The filmmakers didn’t crack it first time round and haven’t done any better on the second attempt (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"

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