paul_s_hills
I have no idea how many times I have watched this movie - I remember watching it as a child when it was shown on terrestrial television and I now watch it on Christmas Eve every year - I am moved to tears every time!The acting and dialogue are great, most of the songs are clever and entertaining while the choreography is rousing and impressive. Most significantly though, the transition of Finney's Scrooge from the most despicable portrayal of the character that I can recall, to the reformed and enlightened person that he becomes, is just simply joyous in the purest sense of the word.Watch. Enjoy. Laugh. Cry. And share it with your children, if you can tear them away from the iPad or PS4 for a couple of hours.
bkoganbing
There are certain stories that are universal and wherever Christmas is celebrated Charles Dickens's short story A Christmas Carol is read and told and
loved. No need to talk of the story where Ebenezer Scrooge gets and attitude adjustment about Christmas and life itself.I've seen this story with Seymour Hicks, Reginald Owen, Alastair Sim, and George C. Scott playing the miserly Scrooge. But none of these had a musical
score courtesy of Leslie Bricusse.They also didn't have Albert Finney who is looking like he's having one big old ball in the part. He's just delightful in the role and this has to be right
in the top five film performances of his career.Bricusse wrote a full score and being this is a short story you wouldn't think
that this being a short story there would be no room. Not so at all we got
full numbers in a full score the best being Thank You Very Much which earned an Oscar nomination for Best Song along with three other nominations the film got in technical categories.The story of Ebenezer's Christmas metamorphosis will be told and watched
for centuries. So thank you very much Charles Dickens.And thank you Albert Finney.
knight072
While they did stick, for the most part, with the original language and story. There were one or too things that were changed that annoyed me a little. a) The ghost of Christmas present was supposed to be a giant robust man with a bare chest. b) Completely missed the line 'Come in and know me better man'. c) The ghost of Christmas present was supposed to age and wither towards the end of his visit. There were other things but those were the most annoying to me.I found the singing very Oliver like and and, in my opinion, completely pointless and annoying.Overall, I did enjoy the film but being a massive fan of the book maybe I'm a little over-critical I just can not see why people feel the need to alter/embellish what is one of the finest Christmas stories ever written.
lapthomson
So uplifting, funny and the most entertaining version of the Dickens classic. I fell in love with it as a child and I am so thrilled to see it on the rare occasions it is aired each Christmas season. I still discover something new I didn't recognize when I watched it previous times. Thank you AMC for airing it here this year! Albert Finney does a remarkable job as Ebenezer Scrooge and the cast and music in this production are brilliant. The humor in this story is great, you've just got to catch it in those thick British accents. I had never read or seen the classic versions of A Christmas Carol. When the movie was released, I was 12 years old. This one was the only one that held my interest as a child and I still find it the most entertaining and heartfelt today.
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