Due to a barrage of busy Christmases, I never saw Disney's A Christmas Carol when it came out at the cinema nor when it was released on DVD. I've only just caught it as it hit my Sky Box (really not a euphemism).
Based on the classic Dicken's text, which incidentally is one of my favourite stories, this motion capture version sees Jim Carrey play Scrooge along with all the ghosts, ably supported by Colin firth and Gary Oldman.
It's good fun and they've kept to a lot of the original text. Where it goes off the rails is the scenes between Carrey delivering the classic lines, which involves (but isn't limited to) Scrooge being shrunk and chased around London by the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come. It's weird and unnecessary, and feels like it's only in there because the animators wanted to show off the cool stuff they could do.
As versions of A Christmas Carol go, it's nowhere near as Scrooged, which I'll be watching on Christmas Eve, as I do every year.
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