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The Nut Job

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Canada, Korea, United States · 2014
Rated PG · 1h 25m
Director Peter Lepeniotis
Starring Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Liam Neeson, Katherine Heigl
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family

After Surly, a fast-talking, mischievous squirrel, is banished from his park, he must band together with his friends to stockpile enough food to last them the winter. Ever the schemer, Surly plans a heist on Maury's Nut Shop, a store run as a front by criminals looking to rob the bank next door.

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The A.V. Club by

The most egregious problem with The Nut Job is how shamelessly it fills in the gaps left by expanding Lepeniotis’ short with generic and tedious rogue-to-hero cliché.

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Arizona Republic by Bill Goodykoontz

Peter Lepeniotis’ animated film brings together a good cast, including Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser and Liam Neeson, which sounds like a sweet deal. But it places them in an uninspired little movie about selfish behavior, which, while overcome (of course), never really manages to escape its bitter roots.

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Slant Magazine by Chris Cabin

There's no personality in the design or the script, which only renders the cynical aftertaste of this convoluted one-squirrel-against the-world story all the more potent.

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Austin Chronicle by Kimberley Jones

The richly hued CG animation is quite nice – a mix of hyperdetailed character work and painterly cityscapes and pastorals – and the script putters along with small but regular amusements.

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New York Post by Lou Lumenick

The Nut Job has an interesting anti-socialist subtext, with the seemingly benevolent raccoon revealing himself as a power-mad dictator. It’s the most political non-Pixar cartoon feature since the very left-leaning “The Ant Bully’’ eight years ago.

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Variety by Peter Debruge

The critters look cute, but behave less so, while the competing-heists concept never quite takes off.

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