Scrooge: A Christmas Carol

Name: Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Comedy, Animation
Released: November 18, 2022
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 46
Cast: Devon Pomeroy, Fra Fee, Giles Terera, Homer Todiwala, James Cosmo

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Netflix | Release Date: November 18, 2022 | TV-Y7

Starring: Devon Pomeroy, Fra Fee, Giles Terera, Homer Todiwala, James Cosmo, Jemima Lucy Newman, Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, Jonathan Pryce, Luke Evans, Olivia Colman, Sil Van Der Zwan, Trevor Dion Nicholas

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Streams on Netflix beginning December 2, 2022.

Summary: Charles Dickens' ageless legend is reborn in this supernatural, time-travelling, animated musical adaptation of the definitive Christmas story. With his very soul on the line, Scrooge has but one Christmas Eve left to face his past and build a better future. Featuring re-imagined songs from the legendary and two-time Academy Award winnerCharles Dickens' ageless legend is reborn in this supernatural, time-travelling, animated musical adaptation of the definitive Christmas story. With his very soul on the line, Scrooge has but one Christmas Eve left to face his past and build a better future. Featuring re-imagined songs from the legendary and two-time Academy Award winner Leslie Bricusse, Scrooge: A Christmas Carol is one for a new generation to sing. [Netflix]… Expand

Director: Stephen Donnelly

Genre(s): Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Comedy, Animation, Family, Musical

Rating: TV-Y7

Runtime: 96 min

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Kenneth Seward Jr.

Dec 9, 2022

Netflix’s Scrooge: A Christmas Carol manages to delight thanks to solid animation, a lively cast, and strong musical performances. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Nov 23, 2022

It’s all a bit much, really, and the constant tonal shifts from a sort of demonic Fantasia to bouncy musical numbers proves more than a bit jarring. It doesn’t help that none of the songs are particularly memorable. Read full review

John Kirk

Nov 29, 2022

There are too many cute influences, too many perfect musical numbers and even the physical rendering of the characters themselves belie the gritty human struggle that has remained at the core of this story for this to render the true story of Ebenezer Scrooge. Read full review

Bill Goodykoontz

Nov 29, 2022

If nothing else it’ll dazzle your senses, even on a small screen. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Dec 2, 2022

Just about any other rendition of Dickens’ classic novella that you can hunt down is going to be better than this treacly humbug from Netflix. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nell Minow

Dec 2, 2022

God will bless us, everyone, if the inevitable next "A Christmas Carol" is better than this one. Read full review

The Guardian Lauren Mechling

Nov 29, 2022

If the underlying message is to be decent before it’s too late, then be nice to yourself and queue up the berserk and brilliant Muppets Christmas Carol, why don’t you? You only live once. Read full review

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CKhound

Dec 4, 2022

A great modern day adaption of A Christmas Carol. It had some great musical numbers, I really enjoyed the way the characters looked, and was overall, a good watch.

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jmarshallca

Dec 6, 2022

The film's flaws could be summed up just by looking at the Scrooge in this film.

As most of the English-speaking world knows, he's written is a bitter old miser, heavy with wrinkles and always scowling. He speaks mostly in callow dismissals and harsh rebukes. This movie seems to think he'sThe film's flaws could be summed up just by looking at the Scrooge in this film.

As most of the English-speaking world knows, he's written is a bitter old miser, heavy with wrinkles and always scowling. He speaks mostly in callow dismissals and harsh rebukes.

This movie seems to think he's a cool grandpa who cracks wise, smirks often, and has a dog named Prudence. So the filmmakers either don't like Scrooge as written, or they're afraid of what audiences might think of this enduring figure in English literature. Take the logic of this character design, and extend it to the entire film. Any moment, character, or idea that might be poignant, evocative, or imaginative, is made to become irritatingly quirky, bombastic and exhausting, or cacophonous and overdone. This movie compels me to laugh when I shouldn't, if it elicits any emotion at all.

In between excessive effects and flailing humour, the movie itself is so forgettable as to be like a fog. Of the six or so songs performed in the film, the only memorable one is ripped off a much better 1970 Christmas Carol musical (even the choreography is the same), which it desperately hopes we've never heard of. The others have floating animated characters, dancing precisely alike, singing vaguely affirming pop ballads.

It's faintly entertaining to watch as a bad film, if you're amused by watching talent and money thrown into such a shallow effort, but you'll want to follow it up immediately with any other Christmas Carol adaptation.… Expand

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