Disney's A Christmas Carol

Another Jim Carrey holiday classic. The hyper realism animation style may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but few can argue this is currently the most popular adaptation of A Christmas Carol. Due to Carrey’s bombastic vocal performance, creative and engaging shots, as well as a storyline that leaves you satisfied and festive as ever, watching this movie is a great way to kick off the holiday season.

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

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.

Putting aside the occasionally jarring motion capture visuals, this is one of the best adaptations of Dickens' classic. It remains true to the source material and even incorporates original dialogue from the book. However, I would have personally preferred to skip some sequences that I would consider too goofy.

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.

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.

I can see why if watching this for the first time in 2009/2010, you would think its lacking something... and yet here I am watching it 15 years later. Its a bit odd, definitely spooky and on the repeat list each year for Christmas.

Truly weird and underrated as fuck!

I still like this film but it has its flaws. The animation leans into uncanny valley which makes it hard to love, would have preferred a bit nicer style. I do like the darkness of it especially the ending of the Ghost of Christmas Present. Main gripe here being shrinking Scrooge and the cause seen, a bit needless when there could have been other aspects of the book explored.

Let's start off by saying that I know this would be a bad movie. The movie looks stunning but is held back by the fact that the animation studders and people like Crachait look like their necks are broken. There is also the fact that the Ghost of Christmas past is a candle with a floating face, tell me who let that happen. I have no clue how this movie was ever allowed to leave the studio one of the worst movies I have ever seen. 0.5 stars