exactly what I expected from Zemeckis and company. With the Dickens story as the foundation, it's perfect for the holiday season
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11/06/09
Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)
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Reviews Counted:163
Fresh:90
Rotten:73
Average Rating:5.9/10
Consensus: Robert Zemeckis' 3-D animated take on the Dickens classic tries hard, but its dazzling special effects distract from an array of fine performances from Jim Carrey and Gary Oldman.
Genre: Childrens
US Box Office: $79,836,002
Synopsis: Director Robert Zemeckis (THE POLAR EXPRESS) continues to work his holiday magic with A CHRISTMAS CAROL. This 3-D adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic will use the motion capture technology... [More]
Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Reviews for Disney's A Christmas Carol
41 - 60 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Yes, Zemeckis does throw in a few gratuitous moments where things are flying at your face, but he ends up using enough restraint to ensure the 3D doesn't overwhelm your senses or take away from Dickens' stirring story about greed and redemption.
11/06/09
The only major change Disney's A Christmas Carol takes with the source material is draining the humanity right out of it.
11/06/09
How they made it into this Disney adaptation unprettified is a Christmas miracle in itself.
11/06/09
Zemeckis... appears to have given up making fantasies for grownups in favor of making theme-park attractions designed to do nothing more than shut the kiddies up for 90 minutes...
11/06/09
In the end you don’t have to analyze it... that tear in your eye tells you it’s working.
11/06/09
Too bad though, that for all the eye-popping spirits on screen, it lacks a soul.
11/06/09
Although Dickens has been translated time and time again, this animated adventure is no humbug.
11/06/09
Call me a Scrooge, but I'll pass on this synthetic version of that most humanistic of tales.
11/06/09
Zemeckis' film preserves much of Dickens' original dialogue and detail while amplifying the utter ethereal strangeness of the ghosts.
11/06/09
There's a lot of dark magic in this Dickensian Yuletide.
11/06/09
Want the creeps for Christmas? Then check out the latest version of A Christmas Carol.
11/06/09
Does this entertainment achieve a timelessness beyond its exquisite source material? Not even. Yet there's pleasure to be had and relief in feeling the filmmakers didn't Scrooge it up either.
11/06/09
Disney's excessively hyped A Christmas Carol brings Dickensian details to such sumptuous life that you mostly forgive it for possessing a stop-motion soul.
11/06/09
The movie may be yet another retelling of an iconic story, but visually it is often quite breathtaking.
11/06/09
Zemeckis captures all the story’s terror, but its pathos has always been the real challenge, and it mostly eludes him.
11/06/09
You don’t identify with Scrooge at any point, nor is blatant fakery scary. Picture The Seventh Seal with sock puppets.
11/06/09
A branded piece of shiny seasonal entertainment.
11/06/09
Top CriticRobert Zemeckis turns the classic Dickens tale into a 3D performance-capture spectacle, abetted by the versatility of Jim Carrey as skinflint Scrooge and his ghostly visitors.
11/06/09
Succeeds in delivering a respectful--if not always magical--interpretation of Dickens' famous tale.
11/06/09
Latest News for Disney's A Christmas Carol
November 17, 2009:
Disney's Christmas Wishes Coming True 
Robert Zemeckis' "A Christmas Carol" has divided critics, but Disney was hoping for a holiday movie with long theatrical legs -- and so far, the studio couldn't be happier. More...
November 08, 2009:
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Christmas Carol Tops, Precious Rocks
This weekend Moviegoers powered Jim Carrey's holiday kidpic A Christmas Carol to a number one opening but some fans remained stingy preventing the Disney 3D toon from meeting... More...
November 05, 2009:
Critics Consensus: A Christmas Carol Dazzles But Disappoints
This week at the movies, we've got some modern-day Dickens (Disney's A Christmas Carol, starring Jim Carrey and Gary Oldman); a button-pushing thriller (The Box, starring... More...
November 04, 2009:
Ho-ho-horror! 10 Scary Christmas Movies
This week's eerie mo-cap rendering of the ghostly, dark Dickens morality tale 'A Christmas Carol' from director Robert Zemeckis is far from being the only yuletide movie where... More...
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