Ebenezer: The Traveler

I'm not saying it's terrible for a zero budget movie but its not great - the flashback to some urchin on Christmas day stood on a tarmacked road/pavement and the pristine historic Yaphank sets gives some idea to the quality of the movie

The script is pretty terrible and the hammy actors.make it even worse.

With a modicum of digging you can quickly find the connection between the movie and the glowing reviews

Save yourself the effort and give this one a miss unless you're desperate for some background noise.

Just saying this to make up the extra characters needed so that I can submit a review.

Ebenezer the Traveler was so bad that, in all my years of using this site, this is the first time I've ever taken the time to write a review. It was so unwatchable that I thought to myself "I NEED to save others from experiencing this abomination."This film is essentially the exact opposite of Dickens. Everything you've ever loved about the original Christmas Carol (or even any of the countless re-imaginings) is not only lacking from this thin attempt at a sequel, but the legacy of the predecessor(s) would be tarnished by simply having this story considered to be in the same universe. The movie looks like it was created by a middle school theater class and --if that's the case-- everyone who participated deserves to be held back. The dialogue is painful, the acting is awkward, the accents are laughable, the plot is... well, you get the point. There's honestly just nothing redeemable about this movie whatsoever. It tells you everything you need to know that the only positive reviews are coming from people who made the movie. No one else has anything good to say for a reason.

But don't take my word on it: Please please please watch the trailer before wasting 100 minutes of your life or a single penny on enduring this mess.

An absolute turd of a movie, I love American movies, shows etc but they should not be doing scrooge in any format, casting horrible, acting even worse.. This was pure torture and a crime against dickens., they might just as well have used the cast from high school musical, if I had a choice of watching this or watching paint dry, the paint wins every single time, I could have sworn I lost a few iq points sitting through this pile of garbage... Dont do what I did, when you see this movie.. Walk on by, and keep walking, get a bus to the airport and then fly away to a Country where there's no WiFi and no chance of ever seeing it.

This film somehow keeps winning at film festivals. The cast even attends in costume with a red carpet. Since there was such pomp and circumstance surrounding the show, I streamed it and was terribly disappointed. First of all, the low quality wigs were very distracting, purgatory is the United States?, Ebenezer only died 7 years prior but his clothing is so out of date, they killed off a beloved child who we were all routing for to live, and then the storyline went nowhere and never wrapped up the plot regarding the main characters! Did Ebenezer ever remember his sister, Fan? What happened after they completed their task? We'll never know, and by the end of the movie, you no longer really care, but are just happy that it is over!

First off, if you're looking for perfection, just stop doing that. Perfect doesn't exist. Story telling exists. Heart exists. People exist. And none of those are perfect.

The truth is though, this is a good little holiday film. It's not huge budget star padded studio offering by any means, but it definitely outpaces a lot of the Hallmark and Lifetime quality independent films.

There's a clever story here told in a sincere way, and that's the heart of it all. You're going to be taken somewhere new on the screen, and along the way in your own heart and mind.

Like I said, it's not perfect. There's shortcomings, particularly with accents and occasionally acting. Some almost get it and some just don't quite make it, but that's about any film, even with big name stars.

The technical side, the visuals and the sound, and the music, are very good for something outside of a studio production.

But the main thing this film has is a heart, and a message, that comes through without beating anyone over the head with it. You have an entertaining story that takes you along for the ride, and along the way maybe leaves a good feeling in your heart and some good thoughts in your head.

Some of these reviews I just don't understand on both sides of the spectrum. My feeling is that a lot of the 1 stars are just personal attacks, and a lot of the 10 stars are typical hype.

The truth lies somewhere between, on the upside of the middle. Personally, I'm giving it an 8. In a world full of knock offs and flashy empty shells made to just fill content, this isn't.

Probably not a holiday classic, but a good little holiday film.