Listen to the original story and judge for yourself how the main idea of revenge as a highly positive and commendable human aspiration has been misinterpreted by modern and not so modern Western movies....
This is very offhand translation of Alexandre Dumas version of Nutcracker legend. Dumas himself was very cavalier with Hoffman's original gothic horror so he should not complain that someone done the same to his own book. Result is a very good children fairytale....
