Last night I saw the latest version of A CHRISTMAS CAROL a straight to DVD movie featuring Jim Carrey (a Canadian ) playing the miserable Scrooge. Other biggies are Colin Firth, Bo Hoskins, Cary Elwes, etc. Why didn't they show it in theatres?..I can only guess. The co producers Disney and R. Zemickis ( producer of the classic BACK TO THE FUTURE with Michael Fox ) might believe that Xmas shopping usually starts late November, like RIGHT NOW. Thus they are predicting millions of these DVDs will be sold as stocking stuffers which will find their way to millions of stockings all over the planet come Xmas day!..Movie making, after all is not just acting or making good movies: it is also another business of making money!..If I am not mistaken, this is the first movie of the newest filmmaking process:It is a high end kind of animation.First of its kind!..If you watch the actors, you swear they re alive but they are just animated characters..It is not like Pixar, not filmation, not dynamation..The process is explained in a documentary in the SPECIAL FEATURES OF THIS dvd. ..Another good point of this movie is: it is the only version CLOSEST to the text, narrative of the book by Charles Dickens!..At first glance in the the video store I said, "oh no, another CHRISTMAS CAROL by no other than Disney. " We know that many of Disney movies are crap!..Then Miggie brought home a Library copy of THIS movie. I watched it last night, then I watched the film process in making the movie. It made me watch it the second time!..If you are fond of movies and the technology behind modern film animation, or even if you are not..if you want to watch Christmas Carol as Dickens might have envisioned it, this one's for you!!..warning: some scenes are frightening..:) of course!...
written by vic costes
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