You’d have to be squirrelly to have liked the original “The Nut Job,” an ugly kiddie cartoon about a purple rodent named Surly. But it was cheap and it made money. That made a sequel inevitable. But ...

“So much for peaceful protests!,” an animated squirrel announces during the first act of “The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature,” before forcefully attacking an intruding bulldozer with his tiny squirrel ...

You never know where you’re going to find the most radical ideas. A sub-par animated film sequel intended to quiet the kids for a few hours on a weekend afternoon burns with a proletarian rage. You’d ...

The animated film “The Nut Job” and its new sequel, like many a movie before them with the theme of man vs. nature, depicts a world in which grotesque humans are ultimately rendered powerless by ...

The screening for “The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature” started 45 minutes late. This tardiness is worth mentioning. To dangle a film in front of anyone is to create a frustrated viewer, antsy and agitated ...

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Katherine Heigl voices Andie, an industrious squirrel who models the rodent work ethic, in this animated man-vs.-nature fable. (Open Road Films) The animated film "The Nut Job" and its new sequel, ...

THE NUT JOB 2: NUTTY BY NATURE brings back the characters of the 2014 animated film THE NUT JOB for another round of puns and slapstick, in a sequel that is a bit better than the original. It works as ...

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. The bar was lowered so far the first time that even a squirrel ...