[raccoonradio]

Am shocked they allowed the un-P.C. word "Christmas" in the title...

Rent or buy An American Carol btw--David Zucker's right-friendly spoof of the classic tale, which of course the left-leaning movie critics hated, hated, HATED. It IS funny...

Zemeckis directed the Back to the Future films IIRC as well as the innovative-for-its-time live action/cartoon blend Who Framed Roger Rabbit (in which the 'toon bunny left fingerprints on chairs, spat out real water, etc.)

[raccoonradio]

film clip

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704013004574517482456740524.html?mod=rss_Lifestyle#

[C19fan]

If I want to watch Christmas Carol pop in the George C Scott version in the DVD player. This Zemeckis version sounds like an disaster. Wonder how much Jim Carrey got paid?

[a fool in paradise]

I wonder what Dickens would say. For a company like Disney that keeps buying Congressmen to keep Copyright Law in perpetual renewal, they sure do tackle a lot of public domain materials.

And really though, I've seen adaptations of A Christmas Carol. And maybe someone will get it “right” every now and then, but I don't need to see 400 different interpretations of Scrooge.

Good message. But give me something new.

A Christmas Story was something new. And it became a perennial.

[martin_fierro]

This flick is from the same people who gave us The Polar Express -- complete with politically-correct skinny Santa.

[DManA]

Hollywood has COMPLETELY run out of ideas.

[ctdonath2]

I watched this short clip from the film, and it is sufficiently inept enough to prevent me from wanting to see any more.

A published review trashing the movie - based on just a _short_clip_? WTH?

My take from the preview is that this may be the first visual version of A Christmas Carol to actually achieve the surreal/supernatural visuals depicted in the book: ghostly Marley, flame-headed Past, even the Marley-morphing Knocker.

Yes, the digital technology is well within the "uncanny valley" of just-not-quite-perfectly-human (a disturbing nuance), so I'll overlook such imperfections insofar as the director is pushing & improving 3D and motion-capture technology into the future (from Polar Express to Beowulf to this).

I thought Polar Express 3D was fantastic, and Beowulf a step forward from that. Yes, I'll be shelling out IMAX 3D money for this one - and I'm rather scroogeish about going to theaters these days.

[dfwgator]

I’ll stick with Bill Murray’s “Scrooged.”

[ctdonath2]

BTW: Ebert gives it 4 stars, lauding its proper use of 3D (this from a critic who hates 3D in movies), and extending the acting beyond the actors per se.

[Borges]

It got a rave review from Evangelical film critic Ted Baehr.