I just watched this and was a little nervous about it, being such a big fan of the book I really didn't want to be let down by and silly changes etc, buy to my surprise it was 99% accurate from the story right down to each individual quote! It is a credit to Robert Zemeckis. Jim was fantastic aswell he really brought the character of scrooge to life
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I thought it was going to be updated to suit children more, but it was so accurate it felt like I was reading the book. If only the animation was as good it could have been the best adaptation of a book.
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Most accurate ? Surely being chased by things with red eyes, shooting up skywards on the ghosts extinquisher cap and all the other slapstick done for the benefit of 3d were not in the original book. This could have been a great version - some of the artwork is superb I think and the attention to detail of dialogue can be really strong but the silliness ruins it for me.Any claim of accurracy in that area goes straight out of the window.... at a hundred miles an hour and does a double back-flip on landing.
shareNo, I'm pretty sure there weren't any action sequences in A Christmas Carol.
Why a turkey at the end?
And another thing, why did they make Bob Cratchit some sort of rodent-like creature?
shareAh, it was a turkey originally. Could have sworn it was a goose.
share@thedeadlyspawn79: I thought it was a goose, too. It is in my favorite version is from 1951 with Alistair Sim as Scrooge. I personally don't think anyone plays Scrooge better. The way he behaves when he wakes up on Christmas morning is my favorite scene of any movie I've ever seen. I start laughing before he even says “I must stand on me head!” just because I know it’s coming. When he gives Mrs. Dilber the money and she thinks it's to "keep me mouth shut," it still gets to me. If I don’t see this the 1951 version it’s just not Christmas for me. It’s my mother’s fault. When I was 10 I had pneumonia and spent quite a few days in bed. But my mom told me that I should get up to watch A Christmas Carol with the rest of the family, as long as my fever stayed down. And that was it; a tradition was born.
But back to this version. I do agree that it is very faithful to the book, and in the book, Scrooge does send the Cratchit family a turkey. I am not a Jim Carrey fan by any means, but he does very well on the various voices. I don’t care about the animation as much as I do the text.
If there are any other Christmas Carol or Scrooge enthusiasts reading this, I sometimes watch it while reading along with the book. I found this quite a few years ago.
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Charles_Dickens/A_Christmas_Carol/Stave _1_Marleys_Ghost_p1.html
So then you wrote goosek edited it,k and it didn't say "edited" LOL! Personally I don't care which it was (but it IS a turkey he had..)..this is a helluva excellent one..I've seen the Alistar Sim (1951), Jim Backus (1962 Magoo TV special), and Albert Finney (1970),and Matthew McConneaughy (2009 Ghost of Girlfriends Past, more of a showcase for current La La Land star Emma Stone) ones,too.
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Nor the "E.T." easter egg, either! The book was written in 1843, which is over 140 YEARS before "E.T.".
shareI was actually blown away how near to Dickens' prose it keeps. I recall actually thinking to myself as much in the theatre, & I loved it.
I would have preferred less slapstick as well.
Without the slapstick, this would have been the definitive version.
It was missing a couple small things (ie. showing Bella's future with her husband), but I agree with OP, for the most part it was extremely faithful.
I would have preferred less slapstick as well.I'm not sure slapstick is the right word......slapstick implies humor, which I don't believe they were going for.
Without the slapstick, this would have been the definitive version.
It was missing a couple small things (ie. showing Bella's future with her husband), but I agree with OP, for the most part it was extremely faithful.
Scrooge "extinguishing" Christmas Past is pure Dickens.
In the struggle, if that can be called a struggle in which the Ghost with no visible resistance on its own part was undisturbed by any effort of its adversary, Scrooge observed that its light was burning high and bright; and dimly connecting that with its influence over him, he seized the extinguisher-cap, and by a sudden action pressed it down upon its head.
The Spirit dropped beneath it, so that the extinguisher covered its whole form; but though Scrooge pressed it down with all his force, he could not hide the light: which streamed from under it, in an unbroken flood upon the ground.
He was conscious of being exhausted, and overcome by an irresistible drowsiness; and, further, of being in his own bedroom. He gave the cap a parting squeeze, in which his hand relaxed; and had barely time to reel to bed, before he sank into a heavy sleep.
it was 99% accurate from the story right down to each individual quote! It is a credit to Robert Zemeckis
I agree.even the swarm of moaning ghosts at the end of the first, one (before the Christmas ones0, i.e., the Jacob Marley one. No other filmed Scrooge film to me has that scene.