
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.... (Full plot summary below)
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Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA marvelous and touching yuletide toy of a movie. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAn exhilarating visual experience and proves for the third time he's (Zemeck) is one of the few directors who knows what he's doing with 3-D. |
| New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottAs beautiful as the animation is, Zemeckis' real masterstroke is combining it with a loyalty to Dickens' story. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliThere's something to be said for the power of a classic, even if it has been given an imperfect makeover. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThis time, though, Zemeckis has another technical trick up his sleeve – 3-D – and for once the gimmick succeeds. |
| San Francisco ChronicleAmy BiancolliIf some of the animation overdoes it, a lot of it is downright gorgeous. Few images this year have followed me home like the Ghost of Christmas Past, here imagined as a bright-flamed candle with the face of a child. It flickers. It whispers. It flies. |
| Miami HeraldRene RodriguezCould there possibly be anything left to gain from yet another adaptation of Charles Dickens' tale about crabby old Ebenezer Scrooge and his life-changing encounter with three ghosts on Christmas Eve? In the case of Disney's A Christmas Carol, the answer is a surprising, resounding yes -- at least so far as the IMAX 3D version goes. |
| Time OutKeith UhlichThe unspoken theme underlying Dickens’s prose--that the money-grubbing Ebenezer is conversing with semblances of his own self--finds near-perfect cinematic expression through Carrey’s efforts. |
| TimeRichard CorlissA ghost story, a bustling action-adventure and an example of the comedy tour-de-farce, in which the star validates his virtuosity by appearing in a plethora of funny disguises. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrShockingly, the new film turns out to be very good, at times close to brilliant: a darkly detailed marvel of creative visualization that does well by Dickens and right by audiences - when it’s not trying to sell them a theme park ride. |