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.
Note: the part in the middle probably should have been isolated, italicized, etc.; that part was from an article/review in the WSJ, but Amid Amidi of Cartoon Brew was basically saying “the movie opens today, and I saw a brief clip” which he didn’t like...anyway, apparently the reviewer in question AFAIK saw the whole film. Amidi is declaring he saw the clip and wasn’t impressed...