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Disney's A Christmas Carol

Play trailer 2:29 Poster for Disney's A Christmas Carol PG Released Nov 6, 2009 1h 35m Kids & Family Holiday Fantasy Drama Animation Play Trailer Watchlist
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Though London awaits the joyful arrival of Christmas, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey) thinks it's all humbug, berating his faithful clerk and cheerful nephew for their view. Later, Scrooge encounters the ghost of his late business partner, who warns that three spirits will visit him this night. The ghosts take Scrooge on a journey through his past, present and future in the hope of transforming his bitterness.
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Robert Zemeckis' 3-D animated take on the Dickens classic tries hard, but its dazzling special effects distract from an array of fine performances from Jim Carrey and Gary Oldman.

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Giles Hardie Sydney Morning Herald While for some there is something disconcerting about the lifeless eyes of the otherwise life like characters, it certainly lends itself to large 3D cinemas, with rubber faced characters and grand sweeping movement. Rated: 3.5/5 Feb 6, 2018 Full Review Keith Uhlich Time Out The biggest surprise is that Zemeckis, so often in thrall to his digital palette, here uses it to freshly illuminate a time-honored text. Rated: 4/5 Nov 16, 2011 Full Review Tim Grierson The Simon The greatest tension in this adaptation of A Christmas Carol isn't between Scrooge and those pesky ghosts but within writer-director Robert Zemeckis. Nov 12, 2009 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Everything poignant and evocative about Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol has been rendered flat by Disney’s latest adaptation. Rated: 2/4 Aug 30, 2023 Full Review Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Morbidly dark and frighteningly realistic - almost as if Tim Burton had a hand in the design. Rated: 6/10 Nov 28, 2020 Full Review Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens Christmas magic never fails to touch the heart and spirit and neither will A CHRISTMAS CAROL. God Bless Us Everyone. Nov 6, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Tyler M Great adaption of the classic story! One of my favorite Christmas movies, it’s fun, emotional, heartfelt, and warming. I won’t go a Christmas without watching Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/13/25 Full Review Blu B It feels like the only reason this was made was not to add anything new or expand upon anything the literally dozens and dozens of other versions haven't done better but to just show off the Special Effects and animation. And worst part at best the animation is just alright and at worse looks like the Rachael Zeigler Snow White dwarf faces. It reminds me of the Polar Express also for better or worse but isn't as good as that. There are some stupid scenes like Scrooge shrinking into a sewage pipe. Can't have Christmas Carol without some form of poop jokes for modern audiences. It feels like your watching at other points a video game than anything, The animation adds nothing that live action can't do or hasn't done in other versions. Everything else is half decent though. Again biggest problem is the story will just stop throughout to show off random segways or drag scenes out to showcase the animation with dynamic camerawork that either feels showy, distracting, or drags scenes out. It gets very annoying and doesn't add anything. The actual story itself is fine and standard Christmas Carol stuff. Nothing really broken about it at all. But the whole reason for this, being the animation is pointless and the end result is one of the weakest big screen versions I've seen. Skip this. Fortunately there are plenty of other versions worth your time. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/11/25 Full Review Audience Member Wow, one of the first times I think the book is better. I really had high hopes for Disney to make a good movie for this classic book. It was really rushed at many parts, random, non-magical, and really weird. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/08/25 Full Review Fabrizio A Putting the sometimes-jarring motion capture visuals aside, this is one of the best adaptation of Dickens' classic, sticking true to the source material and even using the original dialogue from the book. I would have personally avoided the chase sequence with the Future ghost, though. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/09/25 Full Review Raven W Aside from some of the unnecessary filler scenes, every piece of dialogue and emotion to convey the meaning of Christmas are expressed well in this movie. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/26/24 Full Review Steve V Jim Carrey was brilliant in all three of his roles! Classic story recreated in a well done motion capture adaption that balances holiday cheers and terrifying frights. The essence of Scrooge and his arc creates the perfect build up for the cheerful conclusion. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/25/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Though London awaits the joyful arrival of Christmas, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey) thinks it's all humbug, berating his faithful clerk and cheerful nephew for their view. Later, Scrooge encounters the ghost of his late business partner, who warns that three spirits will visit him this night. The ghosts take Scrooge on a journey through his past, present and future in the hope of transforming his bitterness.
Director
Robert Zemeckis
Producer
Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke
Screenwriter
Robert Zemeckis
Distributor
Walt Disney
Production Co
Walt Disney Pictures, Imagemovers Digital
Rating
PG (Scary Sequences|Scary Images)
Genre
Kids & Family, Holiday, Fantasy, Drama, Animation
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 6, 2009, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 1, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA)
$137.9M
Runtime
1h 35m
Sound Mix
SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS
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