The movie is quite faithful to the story minus the shrinking Scrooge and the pursue by the hearse carriage. There is also other nice voice acting by Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, and Bob Hoskins. There is very little room for him to get crazy, and it mostly goes as a show off of talent since it is animation. Jim Carrey does all the voices in this film, but it isn’t really a “Jim Carrey” movie (which is good). Ghost of Christmas Present…you’ve looked better Even the ghosts outside of Scrooge’s home begging for salvation were frightening and the transformation of the Ghost of Christmas Present into Christmas Yet to Come as his flesh rots off with the “death” of Christmas Day is pretty intense. From the beginning with Scrooge snatching the coins from Marley’s eyes, to Marley’s scary arrival (and flopping jaw), the ethereal Ghost of Christmas Past, and the ominous Ghost of Christmas Present with his feral Ignorance and Want, the movie is very intense…especially since it is aimed at children and from Disney. The movie remembers that it is a ghost story and is seeped in horror. This possibly is the scariest version of A Christmas Carol. While this is largely true of Disney’s A Christmas Carol, the film is surprisingly rather unique and like it or not is a rather different take on the old holiday tale. There are rarely new additions to the tale and simply reworkings of the story which often end up an amalgam of version of story that were adapted over the years. A Christmas Carol has been done to death.
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