There's a new Nutcracker 3-D movie coming out. It has a 0% Tomatometer rating, and I wonder why:
"The movie starts out as a gentle tale of a lonely young girl (Elle Fanning) in 1920s Vienna who receives a magical nutcracker for Christmas from her uncle Albert Einstein (Nathan Lane). Yes, that Albert Einstein. Exactly why the famed Jewish physicist was celebrating Christmas is not discussed in the film. The doll, of course, comes alive, reveals himself to be a prince under a curse, and leads her Wonderland-like into his world.
And here's where the movie makes a left turn from a Hallmark Christmas special into a bizarro version of the Third Reich. The prince's land is occupied by rat-faced Nazis. Their leader, the Rat King (John Turturro in an Andy Warhol wig), espouses the complete purification ("Ratification") of the population while throwing piles of children's toys into a crematorium. There's also singing and dancing. A little kung fu. An electrocuted shark and at least one beheading. And it's in 3D!"