“A Christmas Carol” Misses the Mark by That Much

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For those of you who were excited for A Christmas Carol when you saw the giant cut-out of Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge at your local marquee, the reviews for the movie probably don’t mean diddly-squat to you. Most of the people who want to see this are families and kids, who aren’t influenced at all by what critics think of a movie.

But for those of you like me you do care what critics think, not wanting to spend your $9 (or $11, good God) on a movie that stinks. I read a few early reviews for A Christmas Carol previously this week and found that most of them were, shockingly, positive. You’d think that a movie where Jim Carrey was half a dozen characters in a Disney movie from the guy who did what I found to be the creepy Polar Express would be terrible. And for the most part, you’re probably right. It really depends on whether you dig this sort of thing or not. Make what you will of the reviews:

• “The movie may be yet another retelling of an iconic story, but visually it is often quite breathtaking.” –Mary F. Pols, MSN Movies The Fly II movie Colour Me Kubrick: A True…ish Story ipod
• “You don’t identify with Scrooge at any point, nor is blatant fakery scary. Picture The Seventh Seal with sock puppets.” –Kyle Smith, New York Post download The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep dvd
• “Does this entertainment achieve a timelessness beyond its exquisite source material? Not even. Yet there’s pleasure to be had and relief in feeling the filmmakers didn’t Scrooge it up either.” –Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
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• “The good news about A Christmas Carol, then, is that Dickens’ story — the pure power of it, the grace and gentleness, the sensibility and sentiment of it — cannot be drowned or destroyed no matter how many technicians and dollars are thrown at it.” – James Rocchi, Redbox

Coyote Ugly hd 68 Fresh reviews and 52 Rotten ones on Rotten Tomatoes average out a mediocre 57% of critics enjoying it. Hopefully the movie will be as divided, thus as debatable, as Where The Wild Things Are Wind trailer . I’m going to go with an open mind when I see Carol in theaters, and expect a family Christmas story that’s slightly better than The Polar Express. However according to critics, the movie misses the mark by that much.