Friday, December 25, 2009

A Christmas Carol (starring Jim Carrey)

This movie is a hot mess. It took a fairly simple story and made it into a bizarre movie.

The main problem is that the movie tries to be different things, a serious movie (but God forbid that an animated film should be serious), a slapstick comedy, and, of course, a showoffy-let's-see-what-3D-can-do movie.

Another problem is that it stops to let the meeting of the Ghosts sink in, only to speed through the main parts of the story, like a pianist with no sense of tempo. Belle (Scrooges old flame) has like 2-3 minutes of screen time, Tiny Tim has really only two lines(both of them the same, take a guess), the movie just breezes right through them to get to the "stunt" scenes.

However, there are some moments of brilliance, mainly the final moments of the Ghost of Christmas Present.

It's not "bad", it just bothers me how disjointed it is, it's like an unsolvable Rubik's Cube. It just gets worse when I nitpick it more and more.

I don't "like it" that much, but I'm pretty sure kids will like it.

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