1/10
Oh My God - Truly Awful
29 November 2004
Trailers in the build up to this show made it look very promising. Shame all the highlights of it were in the trailers.

Never in all my days have I ever seen such a turgid remake of what can only be described as one of the mose heart warming Christmas events.

Grammar made Scrooge look like Frasier on downers, totally wooden and apathetic. Never nasty enough before the visits, not scared or regretful enough during the visits, and too sickly sweet after them.

As for Jason Alexander - how he won a Tony is beyond me. This guy is a one dimensional cretin with all the talent of my little toe. The less this man is on the TV the better for humanity.

Even Jane Krakowski was a let down, Ally McBeal showed what an amazing voice she has, and then she has to work with what can only be described as the most awful musical numbers of all time.

Never have I seen such terrible English accents, such hammish acting and dire choreography. My daughters school version of this classic was better produced, acted and choreographed.

I just hope that these actors have not seen any of Dickens other novels - Imagining Grammar as Fagin in Oliver Twist is too much to contemplate.
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