This new animated version of the Dickens classic Christmas tale definitely falls far short of its potential. The story itself struggles to come together while on one hand keeping close to the original dialog, and on the other hand completely skipping crucial emotional changes in Scrooge. In fact, the film has an underlying feeling of “callousness” that even surpasses earlier “Scrooge” films. The animation is pretty incredible but is completely overdone! The special effects “fly-bys” were an interesting concept but it was almost as if they included as many as possible just because they could; resulting in far too many scenes that defied the laws of physics. Plus, many of the scenes were very disturbing for kids. And, yes, I know “Scrooge” isn’t exactly a children’s story but the animation logically encourages us to assume otherwise this time around. The characters were pretty creepy (more than usual) especially Christmas Present, who rots, turns into a disgusting skeleton, and then disintegrates and blows away! (sigh) As a fan of “Christmas Carol” in all its varieties (including the cheesy ones), I’m usually pretty tolerant but this is one I won’t be watching again.
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