Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
Published December 11, 2022
Film info
- Title Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
- Director Stephen Donnelly
- Year 2022
- Run time 1hr 37m
- Genres Fantasy, Drama, Family, Animation
- Tagline You can't change the past, but you can learn from it
A musical reimagining of Charles Dickens' beloved holiday tale.
Live blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 2:51 | It gets you off to a good start that your festive musical’s first song is called “I Love Christmas’. |
| 5:00 | Oh, fun cockney accents on display again. |
| 10:29 | “I’ve had more than my fill of people for one day.” An introvert, this Scrooge fellow. |
| 19:28 | Fire ice is cool. |
| 21:54 | Wahey, Jonathan Pryce as Marley. |
| 28:52 | “Well, I might have wick for brains…” |
| 37:50 | Olivia Colman is really making the most of this role. |
| 43:14 | “Wiggyfizz.” |
| 55:29 | Weird ghost minion/troll things. |
| 1:09:14 | “You don’t speak? Your colleagues were really rather fond of speaking.” |
| 1:14:04 | It feels weird to have an existing song shoe-horned in like that. |
| 1:20:01 | It’s really just making me want to watch the Muppets again. |
| 1:26:25 | I do think, if he’s really been so bad, that people should be a bit suspicious of his sudden change to niceness. |
Thoughts
This is a perfectly fine retelling of A Christmas Carol, great voice cast, good enough songs, nice animation. But it doesn’t really add anything to the Dickens universe, there’s not a lot new or exciting about it. I feel like at this point, the story has been done so often that you need to add something to it or have a unique take on it to make it worthwhile. This is fine, but there are other better ones to watch. (Muppets!)
Rating: 3 / 5
