A Christmas Carol

Before I get into this, I have to say that My Love is amazing. We have been watching Dexter lately, and both love it a lot, but it's prevented us from watching all the Christmas movies we're supposed to. So, tonight, he nobly allowed me to try to catch up on my reviews and whatnot, by submitting himself to watching them with me, and not watching Dexter without me :)

So, instead of watching serial-killer-kill-serial-killer, we'll be watching A Christmas Carol.


Ah, the very stereotypical Disney/family film opening showing a closed book.
:muffles a cry: Ugh!
Followed by the not stereotypical image of a dead body O.o
Very well drawn, but creepy as all get out.

Something about it is reminding me of Titanic. Weird comparison...but yeah, watching the pan through the city brought back that movie for some reason.

I'm interested to see how Jim Carrey portrays Scrooge. I've seen a few short previews for the process, and am quite interested in how it turns out on screen.

Um, I did not like that street vendor hitting the little kid in the face. Jerkface.

I'm a little creeped out by Fred. I knew it was Colin Firth as soon as I saw him, although the real-life version is much more dashing.

Crochet looks a bit like a combination of a Who from How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Wormtail from the Harry Potter series.

Oh goodness! Ghost Marley on the doorknocker is SO CREEPY! (I typed "SO CREPEY" the first time, and that made me laugh thinking of pastries; he did not remind me of a pastry)

I'm undecided as to how I feel about this style of animation. I'm not sure that the combination of animation/CGI and attempt at live action resemblance. Obviously, it's a great tribute to how far we've come in technology...but I am kind of disturbed by the product that blending the two create. All the people look sort of like people, but not...the scary things seem scarier...and because they haven't quite mastered natural movement, everything seems slightly robotic and awkward. I feel like I'm watching one of My Love's video games with zombies, modern warfare, or whatnot...not something I usually choose for my viewing pleasure.

Okay, so maybe this movie was a bad choice for me. This storyline in general always had that darker edge to it, but usually that didn't really show up until The Ghost of Christmas Future did. This movie is waaaaay darker than any other rendition of this story.

"Jacob, tell me no more. Speak comfort to me, Jacob."
"I have none to give."
- that line was very sobering.

OH MY GOSH. Marley's jaw just popped out of place, and he's having to manually move it to enable him to speak properly. I'm officially freaked and grossed out.

Okay, so I just asked my husband how long I had to sit through this movie before I could say that it just wasn't my thing and turn it off. He responded by saying that he felt it was "dreadful," and quote, "What if we did A Christmas Carol with Jim Carrey, and we made it not funny at all."

Immediately following this statement, Marley flew out the window, into a night sky teeming with moaning, groaning, glowing ghosties. I'm done. We're not watching this anymore.

This movie reminds me of all of the scary parts of Anastasia, only you can't skip through them or you'd have no movie left to watch.

I give this movie (though let it be noted that I did not finish watching it) 4 lumps of coal out of 5.
I do not recommend watching this with children under the age of 10...and maybe not even then.
Actually, who am I kidding? I don't recommend that you watch this movie at all. It was ghastly. So ghastly that I don't even want to try to watch it more to see if it gets better.