I first saw this film when it was still in the theaters and when I came out, I thought "It was disappointing to me." I first saw the Christmas Carol from the 30s when I was 5 and I loved it! Then, a couple years later, I was introduced with a video called "Mickey's Christmas Carol" and I admit I still love it. Now, I'm pretty much grown out of it
I was pretty excited to see that a brand-new Christmas Carol movie was coming out. Yet, I was expecting it to be pretty funny and to be kind of a fun thrill ride. Then, when I went to the theater, I thought, "Oh, I'll like it
" but I got bored in the middle. Obviously, the movie is NOTHING like a plain comedy or even action-adventure film. No, it turned out to be quite a thriller like the other Christmas Carol films, but I still thought it was kinda funny and somewhat fun.
Today, I saw this on STARZ and I seemed to have liked it a little better than before, but was still a horrible let-down for me. I guess I have grown out of a Christmas Carol, but I heard a lot of critical acclaims for this film and how it was well-received, but I know I'm not the only one who thought this film was embarrassing and generic. Well, you know, I could say that the visuals were nice, the script was flat, and some of the characters and even the ghosts were annoying. Yeah, I didn't like it at all very much. Although, I thought Jim Carrey had to be the film's best since his voice was so unique that it didn't even sound like him, and had definitely deserved the KCA award (even though I don't like the KCA very much anymore ).
Overall: It's done a great job capturing the brilliance of the book and adding in some stuff to entertain older kids, but had the right to maybe scare the little ones, but while I thought the book was quite a let-down too, I stood up for myself that I'm not into "A Christmas Carol" very much anymore 3/10
Today, I saw this on STARZ and I seemed to have liked it a little better than before, but was still a horrible let-down for me. I guess I have grown out of a Christmas Carol, but I heard a lot of critical acclaims for this film and how it was well-received, but I know I'm not the only one who thought this film was embarrassing and generic. Well, you know, I could say that the visuals were nice, the script was flat, and some of the characters and even the ghosts were annoying. Yeah, I didn't like it at all very much. Although, I thought Jim Carrey had to be the film's best since his voice was so unique that it didn't even sound like him, and had definitely deserved the KCA award (even though I don't like the KCA very much anymore ).
Overall: It's done a great job capturing the brilliance of the book and adding in some stuff to entertain older kids, but had the right to maybe scare the little ones, but while I thought the book was quite a let-down too, I stood up for myself that I'm not into "A Christmas Carol" very much anymore 3/10