Mouse king nuter four realms12/27/2023 ![]() This leads her to realize that what Marie meant by “everything you need is inside” means that Clara has what it takes to make things right. She opens the music box again and flips it around to reveal a mirror. Clara blames herself for letting this happen. Sugar Plum imprisons Clara and Phillip, along with Hawthorne and Shivers. She also framed Mother Ginger for her own misdeeds and is planning to bring her soldiers to the Fourth Realm to do away with Mother Ginger. Sugar Plum then reveals her true intentions to take over all the realms due to her anger over Marie leaving their world and devoting her life to her family. Once they’ve gone far enough from Mother Ginger, Clara opens the egg to find that it is an ordinary music box, leaving her with no answers.Ĭlara brings the key to Sugar Plum, who activates the machine and uses it to turn a bunch of toy soldiers into larger living soldiers. Phillip then arrives to rescue Clara, and they get the key from Mouserinks. Clara meets Mother Ginger, who also appears upset at hearing that Marie is gone. She is brought to a tent full of creepy clown-like people that come out of each other like nesting dolls. Once they arrive, the mice pull the soldiers underground until they get Clara too. The next day, at Sugar Plum’s behest, Clara leads an army along with Phillip to head to the Fourth Realm to retrieve the key. She also shows Clara a machine that her mother invented, and it is unlocked using the same key that opens the egg. Sugar Plum then takes Clara to watch a ballet where a Ballerina acts out the story of how their world came to be when Marie arrived. Clara sees her siblings enjoying themselves, but her father sits alone looking sad. She takes Clara through a clock, showing the outside world moving slowly. They also refuse to call the Fourth Realm by its original name, the Land of Amusements, due to Mother Ginger allegedly corrupting the land.Ĭlara joins Sugar Plum as she guides her through their world. They are eager to meet Clara but are devastated to learn that Marie is dead. There is Hawthorne, regent of the Land of Flowers Shivers, regent of the Land of Snowflakes and the Sugar Plum Fairy, regent of the Land of Sweets. ![]() There, Clara meets the regents of the other realms. Phillip takes Clara to a castle where the soldiers also know of her and Marie. Their leader, Mother Ginger, rises and calls to Clara, but Phillip takes her away without getting the key back. They take Clara until Phillip goes after her. When she tells him who she is and who her mother was, Phillip addresses Clara as “Your Majesty” and he helps her go after Mouserinks.Ĭlara and Phillip ride his horse into the forest of the Fourth Realm where they are found by a massive pack of mice. Clara then meets Captain Phillip Hoffman, the Nutcracker. Clara chases Mouserinks up to an icy lake, and she spots the bridge she needs to cross. Clara then spots the key, but it is swiped by a little rodent called Mouserinks. ![]() The string then takes her through a hall that leads to a different world. Clara finds the string with her name and goes off to look for her gift. Clara’s father finds her and scolds her for wandering off, saying she only thinks about herself, but Clara says one could say the same for him. ![]() While conversating on Christmas Eve, she is given a gift by her mother, which happens to be a golden egg locked with a Pentumbler's lock (a lock that cannot be opened without a specific key.)ĭrosselmeyer sends the other children out to find their presents, which he set up using strings to guide the kids to their gifts. Unfortunately, her mother soon died at an unknown age, but it must've been long after she had left the Four Realms. It’s a laboriously escapist backdrop that, without the clear visual identity of, say, a Hogwarts or a Narnia, looks like a collision between a steampunk convention and one of those demented Christmas shops that hawks festive tat all year round.Clara is the middle child who was born into a very wealthy family. A gift from her late mother leads her, with the help of her benevolent billionaire godfather (Morgan Freeman), to a magical kingdom where the realms are at war and the mice are terrifyingly well organised. The film introduces Clara (Mackenzie Foy) as she demonstrates her latest invention – some kind of Rube Goldberg mouse-ensnaring machine – and then broadens to waltz and whirl through a vision of kitsch Christmas Victoriana. But the bones of ETA Hoffmann’s original story, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, have been stripped down and reshaped, with grim efficiency, to fit the template of the Disney princess narrative. It also contains a dance sequence featuring Misty Copeland, a principal at American Ballet Theatre. This sparkly, spangly fantasy shares a name and some musical motifs with Tchaikovsky’s ballet.
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