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Positive Reviews
9
Negative reviews
46
Average Rating
1.9
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3.0
The Great Pacific garbage patch of the future will contain relatively few copies of The Nut Job 2.
Av Club
1.9
Like any genre, the quality of animated features rises and falls with the Hollywood tide.
Rogerebert
2.0
While shoving big messages inside animated offerings isnt a new concept by any stretch of the imagination, The Nut Job 2 is uncomfortable with its mos ..
Indie Wire
3.0
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 ..
Variety
2.0
The summer of inessential animation continues with this very middling sequel to 2014s semi forgotten squirrel based timekiller.
The Guardian
1.9
With its swiftly paced script and jokey, devil may care tone, the sequel keeps the energy up while avoiding the cutesy sentimentality of so many kids ..
2.5
An animated adventure featuring a frantic menagerie of urban park dwellers, the feature boasted little that separated it from the anthropomorphic pack ..
The Hollywood Reporter
2.5
Instead, The Nut Job 2 is colorful, kid friendly, and occasionally laugh out loud funny.
1.5
The jokes are thin, the computer animation is wanting and the inane plot is a series of set pieces strung together.
The New York Times
1.0
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.
Paste Magazine
1.8
This is nut a good movie.The Nut Job 2 is one of those rare examples in which the sequel is technically better than the original, but its still not a ..
IGN
1.0
You dont hear many fond reminiscences of the 2014 animated film The Nut Job before sitting down to this sequel, I couldnt even remember if Id seen it ..
Telegraph
2.0
Arnetts Surly squirrel becomes simply grating, and the film a thin patchwork of half hearted storytelling and tired gags.In a golden age for animation ..
2.0
This is quite possibly one of the most boring movies that Ive ever had to sit through, especially in the realm of animation.
Cinema Blend
1.5
The artistry is there, on the surface.(Literally the rough edges of metal cages, the dried out acorn caps, all look fantastic.)
Ny Daily News
2.5
The jokes might not be laugh out loud funny, but theyre better than the dire gags from its predecessor.
The Globe And Mail
2.5
At a time when most Hollywood animation studios are making films that appeal to all age groups, this one seems a tad dated in terms of its narrative a ..
2.0
Otherwise the movie is superior to its predecessor, though still mediocre by the standards of the best family friendly fare, boasting lots of mindless ..
One Guys Opinion
1.9
Because the limp loonyness on display here has barely a giggle, much less a laugh.
Rogers Movie Nation
3.0
Not particularly clever or inventive with cartoon mayhem, and offers a follow up where a canine character gleefully consumes two piles of vomit.
Blu Ray
3.0
I think this is a significant step up from the first one in almost every way.
You Tube
1.0
Derivative, head wrecking, synapse splitting tedium, made by the novice Canadian animation studio ToonBox Entertainment, this is a kids cartoon that m ..
The Times
2.0
The subtext is the countrys 2011 earthquake and the consequent nuclear disaster.
The Times
1.0
Feature length animation hits rock bottom yet again with this who cares sequel.
News Review
1.5
If that floats your boat or need for gross out scatological humor more power to you.For me, it just felt like the screenplay by writer/director Cal Br ..
Screen It
1.0
The stillness and quietness of the filmmaking style is jarring but becomes increasingly beguiling.This is a film with its own gentle logic.
Independent
2.5
I dont know.All I remember is my smile walking out of the theater.
The Wrap
1.3
A decrepit looking carnival straight out of a Stephen King novel, Liberty Land is a good example of this movies off target ideas.
News Day
2.0
Cataclysmic events cum explosive noises make for child abuse, not to mention adult abuseand regrettably, thats the defining aesthetic (such as it is) ..
Film Journal
1.9
Much of the humor feels tired and predictable, and the sequence that got the most laughs in the theater a slow motion shot where a drooling Frankie fi ..
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
1.3
The movies a bit like that, too, with fine performances that rise above the maudlin familiarity of this triumph over adversity story.
Toronto Star
2.0
Instead, its a cod Le Carre like tale of espionage and counter espionage.
Daily Mail
2.0
But as a summer holiday outing to the cinema, this is strictly one for a rainy day.
Daily Mail
2.0
Attempts at tear jerking emotion seem awkward and forced, while the majority of the jokes fall painfully flat.
Flim List
2.0
Perpetually grumbling Surly and the rest of his gluttonous gang hang out in abandoned Nibblers Nut Shop near Liberty Park, gobbling artisanal, previou ..
Susang Ranger
2.0
Dont you remember the closing credits, featuring the movies animal characters and an animated Psy performing Gangnam Style
The Irish Times
2.0
Its an unexpectedly radical, if otherwise rather rote animated sequel.
Detroit News
2.0
More often though its just a cynical waste of time, even its makers cant make a good argument for.
2.0
Instead the franchise is playing it a little safe with this offering, somewhat generic in its execution, leaving us with very little desire to indulge ..
Hey U Guys
2.0
Kids wont be so allergic to it.Nutty By Nature moves along competently and colourfully, hashing together known quantities that have proven amusing in ..
Now Toronto
3.5
All round good fun, but that puke gag, hmm, maybe its because Im an adult with delicate sensitivities.
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
2.0
The scares are nicely handled early on and director David F Sandberg breathes new life into hoary horror tropes.
Independent Ie
2.0
Its predictable animated summer fare, but the dialogue is better and its just sharper all round.
Independent Ie
3.0
The battle of wits between humans and the assorted animals provides much of the laughs and most of the best scenes of this amiable but unmemorable ani ..
Stuff
3.4
I had a sample handed to me at the screening, and if youre hard up for cash, you have just the delicious almonds if you wish.
Ar Kansas Online
1.5
As with most modern animation, director Cal Brunker is obsessed with delivering over the top spectacle.
Film Racket
3.1
The gags are often predictable, but they fly by effortlessly during the well paced action segments.
Sltrib
1.5
So from all this, I think you can see I didnt really care for this movie, I think people should really sit this one out and let it fail so that hopefu ..
Punch Drunk Critics
2.5
In a nutshell, this crowd pleaser has some bite, but families craving something more filling should hunt elsewhere.
Straits Times
1.5
Nobody is more joyous than his self indulgent daughter Heather (Isabela Moner), who cant stop fantasizing about gorging on cotton candy.
Film Journal International ..
2.0
While its far from a modern animated classic, or even a middling one, director Cal Brunkers sequel shows a slight improvement upon its predecessor.
Fresh Fiction
2.0
With its heavily telegraphed morals and utterly boring plot points, Nut Job 2 is a completely unremarkable tale.
National Post
2.0
But what I liked about Escape was the animation which made it look like an actual movie.
Rendy Reviews
2.5
Fairly funny, made for kids sequel to the 2014 animated film about a bunch of city park animals looking for the easy life. fast moving sequel.
Tiny Url
0.5
So the arrival of Operation Peanut 2 comes accompanied by three surprises. First, its mere existence...
El Pais (Spain)
2.0
The film directed by Cal Brunker from a script he co wrote with Bob Barlen certainly doesnt reinvent the wheel.
1.5
In the unwanted sequel The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature, the jokes are still mean spirited and the animation uninspired.
Chesapeake Family
2.0
The Nut Job was profitable enough to have this sequel that no one has asked for...
2.0
Cal Brunker directs the 3D animated sequel, which has some nice animation and inoffensive kid friendly humor (and refreshingly free of potty humor for ..
We Are Movie Geeks
2.0
While The Nut Job 2 had some good performances, the rest of the film is definitely not worth saving for the winter.
1.5
The story is predictable, but it is much better that the sleep inducing first movie... But go watch it as a standalone film, and you will be fine.
The Sun Daily (Malaysia)
2.8
Could this film have been better.Most films could, but if youre looking for a clean, afternoon watch with the kids, Ive seen better and Ive seen worse ..
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