Mike McCahill 

The Nut Job review – very ordinary school-hols multiplex filler

This animated squirrel-plots-food-raid adventure limps through every imaginable U-rated nut joke, writes Mike McCahill
  
  

The Nut Job - 2013
Not that old chestnut … The Nut Job. Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Photograph: c.Everett Collection/REX

School's out, and the animated multiplex filler starts to flood in. This very ordinary effort – outsourced to Korea by the Weinstein company – gestures towards comedy cred by hiring Will Arnett to voice a squirrel plotting a raid on an inner-city food reserve, but the script limps through every imaginable U-rated nut joke, chiefly concerned with perpetuating the usual 3D hustle. One early popcorn explosion may boost concession stand sales, but the absence of new or sustainable ideas dooms it to instant mediocrity: DreamWorks' 2006 film Over the Hedge scampered through similar terrain with far slyer gags in its cheeks.

 

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