The motion capture animation is top-notch and it's hard not to be impressed with what Robert Zemeckis has wrought, even if there's the occasional sense he's pandering to an audience that can't get through a 90 minute story without a few yuks and a chase.
A Christmas Carol
It only takes one night to change your life.
2009 · 1h 36m · PG
Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Directed by
Robert Zemeckis
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A Christmas Carol
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Robert Zemeckis Director
- Jim Carrey as Scrooge / Ghosts of Christmas (voice)
- Gary Oldman as Bob Cratchit / Marley / Tiny Tim (voice)
- Colin Firth as Fred (voice)
- Robin Wright as Fan / Belle (voice)
- Cary Elwes as Portly Gentleman / Dick Wilkins / Fiddler / Business Man (voice)
- Bob Hoskins as Fezziwig / Old Joe (voice)
- Daryl Sabara as Apprentice / Caroler / Beggar / Peter Cratchit (voice)
- Steve Valentine as Funerary Undertaker / Topper (voice)
- Sage Ryan as Tattered Caroler (voice)
- Amber Gainey Meade as Tattered Caroler / Well Dressed Caroler (voice)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
How they made it into this Disney adaptation unprettified is a Christmas miracle in itself.
Zemeckis' film preserves much of Dickens' original dialogue and detail while amplifying the utter ethereal strangeness of the ghosts.
There's a lot of dark magic in this Dickensian Yuletide.
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