Synopsis
When the evil mayor of Oakton decides to bulldoze Liberty Park and build a dangerous amusement park in its place, Surly Squirrel and his ragtag group of animal friends need to band together to save their home, defeat the mayor, and take back the park.
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Cast
- Will ArnettSurly (voice)
- Maya RudolphPrecious (voice)
- Bobby CannavaleFrankie (voice)
- Bobby MoynihanThe Mayor (voice)
- Isabela MercedHeather (voice)
- Peter StormareGunther (voice)
- Gabriel IglesiasJimmy (voice)
- Jeff DunhamMole (voice)
- Sebastian ManiscalcoJohnny (voice)
- Kari WahlgrenJamie (voice) / Additional Voices
Recommendations
- 77
TheWrap
It didn’t take long for this fleet-footed sequel, spry and charming, to win me over. - 50
Austin Chronicle
Colorful, kid-friendly, and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny. ’Nuff said. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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. - 50
Variety
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. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
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. - 42
IndieWire
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. - 40
The Guardian
The summer of inessential animation continues with this very middling sequel to 2014’s semi-forgotten squirrel-based timekiller. - 38
Movie Nation
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.
