It's a Jim Carrey show all the way. You may not recognise him at first due to the CGI effects, but it doesn't take long before the Carrey charisma works its magic. He brings to life a Scrooge you've never seen -- or imagined -- before, with his ill-temper and stingy ways that almost reek of cruelty. Until one cold, wintry, Christmas eve...Scrooge scoffs at his nephew (Colin Firth) who wants to invite him for Christmas dinner and yells at his clerk (Gary Oldman), before retiring to his desolate home on Christmas Eve. But it's not going to be an ordinary Yuletide for this grumpy old man as he gets hauled up by three ghosts who hold up a mirror to his meanness. Repelled by his anti-social ways, Scrooge, the archetypal misanthrope, metamorphoses into the biggest humanitarian, overnight. He not only re-builds fences with his nephew and neighbours, but he also sends the biggest turkey in town to his impoverished clerk's family. Apart from raising his salary of course...
Loads of special effects and a story that has stood the test of time: Christmas Carol is Carrey revisited. However, it's not really a children's film and is meant for diehard Dicken's fans.
A word about...
Performances: Jim Carrey is heavily made-up, yet striking both as Scrooge and the ghosts who reform Scrooge. The rest of the actors are unrecognisable too, yet they pitch in perfectly as archetypal Dicken's characters.
Dialogue: Robert Zemeckis captures the world of Charles Dickens perfectly with his screenplay and dialogues. There's an old world charm to the way Ebenezer and the rest of the characters discover the tenets of good living.
Cinematography: Robert Presley's camera deftly oscillates between the real world, peopled by the down and out and the fantasy world, brimming over with ghosts and visions.
Cast: Jim Carrey, Colin Firth, Robin Wright Penn
Direction: Robert Zemeckis
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