The Nuttiest Nutcracker is a 1999 direct-to-video Christmas movie, an all new take on the classic Nutcracker tale.
This film contains examples of:
- Adipose Rex: The Mouse King, abusing jiggle physics to the point it measures on the Richter Scale.
- And Now You Must Marry Me: The Mouse King to Marie.
- Anthropomorphic Food: The film features talking nuts, fruits and vegetables.
- Berserk Button: Reginald does not like being called a rat. He's a mouse.
- Blue Boy, Pink Girl: The Nutcracker Prince wears a blue shirt, and Marie wears a pink dress.
- Canon Foreigner: The food characters are obviously new creations of this movie.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: The toy soldiers get bulldozed by the mouse army. The food characters intervene and promptly turn the tables on the rodents.
- Didn't Think This Through: During the climax of the story, Marie hops over a railing to escape some pursuing mouse soldiers... only to remember too late that said railing is high above the castle grounds.
- Fartillery: The beans launch a gas attack against the mice with their flatulence.
- Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: All the mice are fully clothed.
- Heel–Face Turn: After Marie and the Nutcracker save his life, the Mouse King finally relents out of gratitude and lets them save the Christmas.
- Humanoid Female Animal: A rare non-animal example of this appears with the only female nut.
- I Am Not Weasel: Reginald hates being called a rat. When the Sugar Plum Fairy calls him the "rat king", he corrects her, and insists he's the "Mouse King".
- In Name Only: Aside from the Nutcracker's backstory, the lead protagonist being named Marie, and music from the ballet, there's virtually nothing from the original book, nor the famous ballet. In fact, the plot is more like The Wizard of Oz.
- Pink Means Feminine: Marie wears a pink dress.
- Redshirt Army: The soldiers who attempt to stop the mice and then there's all the mice soldiers, and finally all the generic fruit and vegetables (broccoli, oranges, asparagus, pears, etc, etc.)
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: The Nutcracker prince of course.
- Save the Villain: After all he trouble he caused her, Marie still saves the mouse king from drowning, which convinces him to pull a Heel–Face Turn.
- Spared by the Adaptation: You know how the Mouse King gets killed by the Nutcracker? Yeah, that doesn't happen here.
- Sword Fight: Two, one in the first two minutes of the Nutcracker coming back to life, and another later on in the ballroom scene.
- Those Two Guys: Reginald and his sergeant can be seen as this.
- Villainous Crush: As is traditional for "The Nutcracker", the Mouse King fancies Marie and he wants her to be his queen.
- Villain Song: The Mouse King gets one titled "The Big Cheese" in his introductory scene.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: The asparagus.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Marie's brother Fritz was last seen going to his room in shame after accidentally wrecking the Nutcracker prince. Then, he just disappears from the story. To be fair, this is canon.
- White Gloves: A fair percentage of the food characters wear these.
