The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
Open Road Films | Release Date: August 11, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
36
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
10
Negative:
8
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
77
TheWrapSam FragosoAug 10, 2017
It didn’t take long for this fleet-footed sequel, spry and charming, to win me over. Read full review
50
Washington PostStaff (Not Credited)Aug 17, 2017
Unfortunately, despite its adorable heroes, you’d have to be nutty to sit through The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature, a largely unengaging modern-day animal fable. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshAug 10, 2017
It’s an unexpectedly radical, if otherwise rather rote animated sequel. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenAug 10, 2017
While that let’s-band-together-and-save-the-park setup clearly isn’t the freshest acorn on the tree, director and co-writer Cal Brunker (2013’s Escape From Planet Earth) at least manages to keep all the ensuing chaos at a reasonably brisk clip. Drawing similarly energetic performances from his voice cast is another matter. Read full review
50
VarietyOwen GleibermanAug 10, 2017
As an animated entertainment, 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. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Andrew ParkerAug 10, 2017
Inventive and vibrant action sequences boasting exceptional 3-D effects and inspired voice casting (including Jackie Chan as a warrior mouse and Peter Stormare as a deranged exterminator) help to elevate this to something better than vaporous. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAug 9, 2017
Colorful, kid-friendly, and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny. ’Nuff said. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerAug 10, 2017
Surly and Andie’s second adventure...is less ambitious than the original.... But it’s also more propulsive, which is to say antic. Read full review
42
IndieWireKate ErblandAug 10, 2017
While shoving big messages inside animated offerings isn’t a new concept by any stretch of the imagination, The Nut Job 2 is uncomfortable with its most ambitious concepts, bookending them with gross-out nonsense that doesn’t seem engineered to appeal to anyone. Read full review
40
EmpireHelen O'HaraAug 14, 2017
Loud, silly and tired. Aside from an almost-fun Jackie Chan cameo, this is enough to give anyone a severe nut allergy. Read full review
40
The GuardianMike McCahillAug 10, 2017
The summer of inessential animation continues with this very middling sequel to 2014’s semi-forgotten squirrel-based timekiller. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaAug 11, 2017
Let’s look on the bright side. The running time is barely 90 minutes. And there are but three fairly amusing characters who save this inferior attempt at family entertainment, at least for me. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineKeith WatsonAug 10, 2017
Though it may clear the low bar set by the first film, The Nut Job 2 still suffers from many of the same problems. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 9, 2017
The one gag that works is probably a little racist, or at least racially touchy. Jackie Chan voices the lead mouse in a sea of martial artist mice who beat the purple out of Surly any time he ventures into Chinatown. Read full review
35
IGNWilliam BibbianiAug 17, 2017
The Nut Job 2 is one of those rare examples in which the sequel is technically better than the original, but it’s still not a compliment. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubAug 11, 2017
The Nut Job 2 isn’t maddening like “Smurfs 2,” where you continue to hate yourself years later for spending the money. It’s an adequate babysitter that completely fails to inspire. Read full review
20
The TelegraphRobbie CollinAug 24, 2017
Substance-wise, there might be enough going on here to sustain a five-minute short. Read full review
20
The New York TimesMonica CastilloAug 11, 2017
The jokes are thin, the computer animation is wanting and the inane plot is a series of set pieces strung together. Read full review
20
Paste MagazineOktay Ege Kozak Aug 7, 2017
The Nut Job 2 actually contains some impressive animation, with photorealistic backgrounds and detailed fur dynamics on the characters, but that makes it an even bigger tragedy, since we know that untold hours were spent by artists in service of a product that even the least discerning child would find tired and useless. Read full review
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