John J. Flanagan

I saw this movie the other night at Regal Cinema in Clifton Park, NY. I went only because my wife wanted to see it, but it was not worth the cost or time. This movie, like some of the Star Wars and other action films presented today all seem to push Hollywood's political-social agenda. Today Hollywood pushes the "women's empowerment" theme full throttle. Basically, the male characters have been neutered and given the roles of assisting the super heroine or fully empowered female protagonist. The male secondary actors are either helpless morons or dependent likeable dummies in the subservient role of assisting and serving the super heroine as she craftily fights and defeats the designated villains. In 'Nutcracker" just as in the latest Star Wars movies, diversity is taken to the politically correct and socially approved level. In the Hollywood version of their wishful thinking and warped sense of reality, they systematically turn young girls and women into tough and formidable super heroines and demasculinized males into caricatures of their social agenda. I give this movie a thumbs down. Social engineering is a Hollywood thing, and I won't buy into their propaganda. I can understand giving women realistic roles in films, and recognizing the strengths and talents of women throughout history in cinema. Most men do not feel threatened by strong women, however, Hollywood has lately gone too far and created a role reversal turnaround which actually denigrates male character actors, treating them unequally and patronizing them as some sort of inferior species. This typecasting by Hollywood is really quite sickening and dishonest.