What. The frick. Did I. Just. Watch.
This is a supposed remake of the brilliant and beautiful and loveable 1970's version of "A Christmas Carol" with Albert Finney. This completely desecrated said movie and the whole beautiful tale of "A Christmas Carol".
First of all, it is canon that Scrooge is NOT a victim of circumstance. He is an absolute miserable old miser, a crotchety old man and completely unlikeable. This Scrooge was a strange silver fox and completely TOO likeable. Scrooge is an OLD DUDE, NOT A HUNK OF BURNING LOVE. The whole point of Scrooge's character is the hope of redemption/repentance and of hard change. Not the easy "Oh wow yeah I can change" that this movie portrayed. There was no great gradual change, no resolution with Cratchit and Fred (who, for whatever reason has a totally different name??? Wth was up with that????)
Wtf is up with the dog??? There was no point. Absolutely none.
Background work? Totally lazy. Like the animators said, "oh we didn't render that so we'll just go to Doctor Strange's Astral Plane".
Also, the ghosts. Past? Annoying AF. Sweet mother of potatoes my ears are BLEEDING. Why does she repeat everything, and why does she look like a giant pile of nacho cheese? AND WHY DID SHE STEAL THE DOCTORS ICONIC PHRASE?! Uh uh, honey. Absolutely not. Why was Christmas Present so freaking WEIRD???!? And why does he directly quote the Cave of Wonders? Ghost of Future was NOT scary. He looked like a weird scarecrow, and the costume came straight from Party City.
The songs were so cringy, especially the repeated ones from the Albert Finney. Especially "Thank You Very Much" - I feel physically ill. Just use different songs, OR sing them like they were meant to in the original movie. For the love of Christmas, don't modernize it.
AND STOP TALKING DOWN TO THE AUDIENCE. WE GET THE SYMBOLISM. YOU DONT HAVE TO SHOW US EVERY FRICKIN THING AS A PARALLEL IN THE SKY.
Pros: Luke Evans has a very pleasant, beautiful voice.
Cons: everything else. I am Scrooge. Humbug.
