Rating of
2/4
Okay adaptation of a great story.
Ichabod Crane - wrote on 11/15/09
Not a truly great adaptation like so many other versions but the story itself is so great that this film is still good. The story is interesting, the Christmas music is great, and the backgrounds and non human animation looks great with a lot of mood setting. I do think it has problems though as a Christmas carol connoisseur I cannot ignore. Carrey is miscast as Scrooge and attempts an imitation of the greatest of the greatest scrooge portrayal Alastair Sim. His spirits are hit and miss the past is annoying and the present is okay. Gary Oldman is fine in voice of Marley, they should have not used is face though for Bob Crachit though. Also the 3-d stuff is unneeded is sometimes extraneous, and the 3-d faces still are strange looking, and the few gags as in bad gags all also unneeded. None the less it keeps the great story intact with the great music.
