I don't want to spoil a movie that's not out yet, but the novelization of The Nutcracker and the Four Realms was so good! I can't tell you haw excited I am for this movie to comeout. Diseny has been on a great live action adaption kick so I had some high hopes going into this. Clara and her family are still greiving the loss of her mother, Marie, at Christmas. At Uncle Drosselmyer's Christmas party, Clara is lead into the entrance of the Realms, a land that was discovered by Drosselmeyer and Marie when she was young. There, Clara meets Phillip, a soldier who helps her fight off the Mouse King. When Phillip brings Clara to the palace, he introduces her to the regents of the Realms; Hawthorn of the Land of Flowers, Shiver of the Land of Snow and Sugar Plum of the Land of Sweets. They tell her of Mother Ginger, a former regent of the Land of Amusments who tried to take of the Realms for herself when Marie became too ill. Clara must defeat Mother Ginger and retrive the key left to her by her mother to bring the Realms back to what they once were.
Like most Disney adaptions, there is a semi-preidictable plot twist that I saw coming from a mile away but some of you might not. There were also a lot of call backs to the original Nutcracker story, like Clara throwing her shoe at the Mouse King so the Nutcracker can defeat him. I also enjoyed the multiple perspectives in this novelization to give more backstory that the film may not, like how Marie found and created the Realms and everything in it and Sugar Plum's backword thoughts about the proceedings. Put of all the recent film novelizations from Disney, this is the best and will give you more to the film.
Pros:
fantasic twist on classic holiday tale
Cons:
Plot twist was pretty predictable
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