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| IGNKenneth Seward Jr.Netflix’s Scrooge: A Christmas Carol manages to delight thanks to solid animation, a lively cast, and strong musical performances. |
| Original-CinJohn KirkThere are too many cute influences, too many perfect musical numbers and even the physical rendering of the characters themselves belie the gritty human struggle that has remained at the core of this story for this to render the true story of Ebenezer Scrooge. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckIt’s all a bit much, really, and the constant tonal shifts from a sort of demonic Fantasia to bouncy musical numbers proves more than a bit jarring. It doesn’t help that none of the songs are particularly memorable. |
| The New York TimesLisa KennedyThis update has its moments of aplomb, but too many of Dickens’s most incisive lines are no more, which invites the not entirely charitable, two-word retort Scrooge made famous. |
| Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzIf nothing else it’ll dazzle your senses, even on a small screen. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreJust about any other rendition of Dickens’ classic novella that you can hunt down is going to be better than this treacly humbug from Netflix. |
| RogerEbert.comNell MinowGod will bless us, everyone, if the inevitable next "A Christmas Carol" is better than this one. |
| The GuardianLauren MechlingIf the underlying message is to be decent before it’s too late, then be nice to yourself and queue up the berserk and brilliant Muppets Christmas Carol, why don’t you? You only live once. |
| User ReviewCKhoundA great modern day adaption of A Christmas Carol. It had some great musical numbers, I really enjoyed the way the characters looked, and was overall, a good watch. |
| User ReviewjmarshallcaThe film's flaws could be summed up just by looking at the Scrooge in this film. As most of the English-speaking world knows, he's written is a bitter old miser, heavy with wrinkles and always scowling. He speaks mostly in callow dismissals and harsh rebukes. This movie seems to think he's a cool grandpa who cracks wise, smirks often, and has a dog named Prudence. So the filmmakers either don't like Scrooge as written, or they're afraid of what audiences might think of this enduring figure in English literature. Take the logic of this character design, and extend it to the entire film. Any moment, character, or idea that might be poignant, evocative, or imaginative, is made to become irritatingly quirky, bombastic and exhausting, or cacophonous and overdone. This movie compels me to laugh when I shouldn't, if it elicits any emotion at all. In between excessive effects and flailing humour, the movie itself is so forgettable as to be like a fog. Of the six or so songs performed in the film, the only memorable one is ripped off a much better 1970 Christmas Carol musical (even the choreography is the same), which it desperately hopes we've never heard of. The others have floating animated characters, dancing precisely alike, singing vaguely affirming pop ballads. It's faintly entertaining to watch as a bad film, if you're amused by watching talent and money thrown into such a shallow effort, but you'll want to follow it up immediately with any other Christmas Carol adaptation. |
