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A Christmas Carol (2009)

Posted by admin in Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Featured Articles on 11 8th, 2009 | no responses
A Christmas Carol (2009)

First Review: When you see Jim Carrey portraying a lot of characters in a movie, you get excited because you know the potential he has when creativity is allowed (The Mask, for example). Unfortunately, this movie doesn't take advantage of their star. As a matter of fact, practically anyone could have played the roles he was given with the same excitement.

The effects here are amazing, and the computer animation is wonderful. Their treatment of Marley's Ghost is by far the best of any Christmas Carol movie I've seen. It's actually scary, which is good. However, Jim's performance as Scrooge and the ghosts seems basically phoned in. He's playing the characters pretty much standard as any other version of the film. His interpretation of the Ghost of Christmas Past is actually the weakest I've seen (their decision for his overall design was strange anyway). This is one time they probably would have come off better to just let him play Scrooge and give the ghosts to someone else. Gary Oldham does a great job as Cratchit and Marley, actually stealing the show from Carrey's generic Scrooge.

Don't get me wrong, I wasn't expecting Scrooge to play like Ace Ventura or anything, but it would have been nice to see a little spark of fun in there somewhere. It seemed to me that Carrey was actually bored with the roles (since this was motion captured from him).

Still, it's nice to see "A Christmas Carol" on screen again. This is pretty much a fairly standard version of the story and probably won't be considered "must see" for the holiday season after this year (like "It's a Wonderful Life" or even other versions of "Christmas Carol"), but it was nice to see the 3D take on it.

Category: Animation
All Genres: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Release Year: 2009
Country: USA
Runtime: 96 minutes
Rating: 6.9/10
Languages: English

Director:

Robert Zemeckis

Sound: Dolby Digital, SDDS, DTS

Writing by :

Charles Dickens
Robert Zemeckis

Produced by:

Katherine C. Concepcion
Jack Rapke
Heather Smith
Steve Starkey
Peter M. Tobyansen
Robert Zemeckis

Music By:

Alan Silvestri

Cast:

Jim Carrey - Scrooge
Steve Valentine - Funerary Undertaker / Topper (voice)
Daryl Sabara - Undertaker’s Apprentice / Tattered Caroler / Beggar Boy / Peter Cratchit / Well-Dressed Caroler (voice)
Sage Ryan - Tattered Caroler (voice)
Ryan Ochoa - Tattered Caroler / Beggar Boy / Young Cratchit Boy / Ignorance Boy / Young Boy with Sleigh / Tiny Tim (voice)
Bobbi Page - Tattered Caroler / Well-Dressed Caroler (voice)
Ron Bottitta - Tattered Caroler / Well-Dressed Caroler (voice)
Sammi Hanratty - Beggar Boy / Young Cratchit Girl / Want Girl (voice)
Julian Holloway - Fat Cook / Portly Gentleman #2 / Business Man #3 (voice)
Gary Oldman - Bob Cratchit
Colin Firth - Fred
Cary Elwes - Portly Gentleman #1 / Dick Wilkins / Mad Fiddler / Guest #2 / Business Man #1 (voice)
Robin Wright Penn - Fan / Belle (voice)
Bob Hoskins - Mr. Fezziwig
Jacquie Barnbrook - Mrs. Fezziwig
Lesley Manville - Mrs. Cratchit
Molly C. Quinn - Belinda Cratchit
Fay Masterson - Martha Cratchit
Leslie Zemeckis - Fred's Wife (voice)
Paul Blackthorne - Guest #3 / Business Man #2 (voice)
Michael Hyland - Guest #4 (voice)
Kerry Hoyt - Adult Ignorance (voice)
Julene Renee - Adult Want (voice)
Fionnula Flanagan - Mrs. Dilber (voice)
Raymond Ochoa - Caroline's Child (voice)
Callum Blue - Caroline's Husband (voice)
Matthew Henerson - Poulterer (voice)
Amber Gainey Meade - Tattered Caroler / Well-Dressed Caroler (voice)
Aaron Rapke - Well-Dressed Caroler (voice)
Sonje Fortag - Well-Dressed Caroler / Fred’s Housemaid (voice)

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Plot: A Christmas Carol is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey), who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one night. Mr. Scrooge is a financier/money-changer who has devoted his life to the accumulation of wealth. He holds anything other than money in contempt, including friendship, love and the Christmas season. But an encounter with the ghostly figure of Jacob Marley (Gary Oldman) sets the stage for a mysterious and magical encounter with three phantasmic beings to help him realize the true magic of Christmas itself.

Goofs:

Trivia:

  • Jim Carrey's first project with Walt Disney Pictures.
  • Robert Zemeckis' first project with the Walt Disney Company since Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
  • This is the Disney Company's third involvement with an adaption of A Christmas Carol, the first being Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983) and the other, The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
  • The first Disney animated movie to release in IMAX 3D.
  • Robert Zemeckis has stated previously that A Christmas Carol is one of his favorite stories dealing with time travel.
  • Jim Carrey has described the film as "a classical version of A Christmas Carol There are a lot of vocal things, a lot of physical things, I have to do. Not to mention doing the accents properly, the English, Irish accents. I want it to fly in the UK. I want it to be good and I want them to go, 'Yeah, that's for real.' We were very true to the book. It's beautiful. It's an incredible film."

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