Disney's A Christmas Carol

Pros: Entertaining version of a well known story.
Cons: Some visuals look slightly off.  Few things seem a bit rushed.

Some classic stories are very popular and have been made into several movies.  I've lost count of how many movie versions I've seen of A Christmas Carol, not to mention episodes of television shows that have done shorter versions of the ...

Pros: Looks absolutely amazing
Cons: Effects overshadow the characters so we never connect with the story

When I say I love A Christmas Carol, I'm not exaggerating.  I will watch/read/listen to at least two versions of the classic story over the next two months.  And I have done that every year for over two decades.  Granted, I usually ...

Pros: Excellent performances, largely great looking
Cons: The motion capture animation still kinda blows

For all its technological wizardry and the pyrotechnic 3-D effects, what really makes Robert Zemeckis's new A Christmas Carol work as well as it does is the fine performances.  They are all but lost in the mountains of things flying at the ...

Pros: Cool 3D effects, good computer generated animation
Cons: Nothing new accept effects, scary for young children

Yesterday my husband took my two older kids to go see New Moon that left me and the little to find something to do, he had wanted to see the Where the Wild Things Are so I thought this was a good opportunity to take him.  The theater web site ...

Pros: The use of 3-D is extraordinary; fast moving and entertaining film
Cons: The story is overly familiar

Back in the 1980s, 3-D movies made a bit of a comeback. Oddly, those movies were pretty much like the ones that inspired them in the first place -- low budget, blurry and generally terrible. Fortunately, the concept of 3-D movies has been embraced again ...

Pros: Amazing graphics, keeps true to Dickens' dialog
Cons: Abandons the message of Dickens' story for a technological spectacle too scary for young children.

In the start of my fifth decade on this planet I have concluded that I’ve become a holiday curmudgeon.  About the only memorable Christmas song from the past quarter century I can recall is Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer and ...

Pros: Great animation, well written, fine human nuances
Cons: Too scary for kids and downright horrifying, plenty of character glitches, animation gone crazy

Directed by Robert Zemeckis, this 2009 remake of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is a 3-D animated picture that will not fail to make lasting impressions. Whether those impressions will be positive or negative is a toss-up, but that no ...

Pros: Jim Carey as Scrooge
Cons: No story, all special effects

Last weekend, before the snow began to fly, we decided to take the kids to see Jim Carey's A Christmas Carol. Technically it is Disney's A Christmas Carol, starring Jim Carey. A Christmas Carol is a Kid's Story? I've never understood ...

Pros: Classic story with good moral
Cons: No spice or sense of originality, Short, Obvious

I am not known for brevity,yet I wanted to be able to join in with the Lean-N- Mean Write-Off. I finally came across something I felt I could participate and be thorough with with Disney's new version of "A Christmas Carol." After all, given that the ...

Pros: Great FX and Story
Cons: May be to frantic for some.

The timeless classic A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens has been one of the most beloved and adapted stories in history.  There have been numerous movies, plays, radio, and television shows that have told the story for several generations as well ...

Pros: great grapics
Cons: price, not for small children

Of course everyone knows the story about Scrooge.  I haven't heard that story since I was little.  So, when I heard that there was going to be a movie about it, I was excited!So I go to see the movie with a family member and chose ...