This is the first review I have written here, and I was compelled to because this is such a horrible version, people need to be warned.
Who thought this POS was a good idea to make? I saw one review that claimed this was in the spirit of the original and a swan hidden among the geese. How absolutely ludicrous.
This is nowhere near the original Dickens nor any improvement over other, better known versions. This adaptation plays far too fast and loose with the story, some of which was playing down to children, but in other ways just messing with the tale in wholly unnecessary ways. It shows strong-arm ruffian police carting people to debtor's prison (which didn't happen that way in real life, even), an extended part for Belle that messed with the entire point of the story, a too-coincidental connection between Tiny Tim and a Scrooge debtor victim, and on and on. To top it off, they added mice characters who, while they don't actually talk, have super-intelligence and can manipulate/observe proceeding like small humans.
The only real saving grace is they tried to present the Ghost of Christmas past as closely to the novella as anyone could, and it was a valiant attempt, but that ghost - as written by Dickens - is unfilmable, even in animation.
Unbelievably bad. Avoid this version at all costs.
Who thought this POS was a good idea to make? I saw one review that claimed this was in the spirit of the original and a swan hidden among the geese. How absolutely ludicrous.
This is nowhere near the original Dickens nor any improvement over other, better known versions. This adaptation plays far too fast and loose with the story, some of which was playing down to children, but in other ways just messing with the tale in wholly unnecessary ways. It shows strong-arm ruffian police carting people to debtor's prison (which didn't happen that way in real life, even), an extended part for Belle that messed with the entire point of the story, a too-coincidental connection between Tiny Tim and a Scrooge debtor victim, and on and on. To top it off, they added mice characters who, while they don't actually talk, have super-intelligence and can manipulate/observe proceeding like small humans.
The only real saving grace is they tried to present the Ghost of Christmas past as closely to the novella as anyone could, and it was a valiant attempt, but that ghost - as written by Dickens - is unfilmable, even in animation.
Unbelievably bad. Avoid this version at all costs.