kt_p_1990, I'm almost 28 and I totally know how you feel. Even though the ending is happy, just everything else that happens in it is sooo tragic and bitter. It's very much unlike anything Disney would ever do today - themes of sickness, greed, death (of a small sick child, no less!!), completely poor, destitute people around Christmas. Even the idea of Scrooge being a stingy bastard about the lump of coal was just so heartbreaking.
The Muppet Christmas Carol had more jokes to lift the mood a little, but most of Mickey's Christmas Carol was honestly the most depressing piece of animation I've ever seen (or, at least on par with Harvie Krumpet). I guess Christmas is supposed to be such a happy time of year that anything that counters that is kinda sad. This is my first Christmas away from my family, so I couldn't even watch it when it was on earlier tonight. I've read the book, and the uplifting ending just stayed with me more than MCC's one somehow...
RIP Heath Ledger...
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