A radical animated retelling of the holiday classic that starts with a Victorian performance of the Charles Dickens tale before diving into the imagination of one of the children in the audi... Read allA radical animated retelling of the holiday classic that starts with a Victorian performance of the Charles Dickens tale before diving into the imagination of one of the children in the audience, taking the story to a darker fantasy realm.A radical animated retelling of the holiday classic that starts with a Victorian performance of the Charles Dickens tale before diving into the imagination of one of the children in the audience, taking the story to a darker fantasy realm.
Simon Russell Beale
- Scrooge
- (voice)
- (as Simon Russell-Beale)
Tom Stourton
- Fred
- (voice)
- …
Martin Freeman
- Bob Cratchit
- (voice)
Amerjit Deu
- Charity Worker
- (voice)
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So much potential and very different but fell flat. Lovely visuals but a storytelling narrative and tone to send you to sleep and Scrooge's voice wasn't much better - lacked intonation. Weird mixture of storytelling, theatre and dance where characters do not actually speak their words and only 'dance' which consisted simply of them constantly flailing their arms about and spinning around - not creative modern dance at all. How to ruin a Classic! Pretentious and boring.
I am a professional dancer, choreographer, and designer. This production is glorious, original, delicate, sensitive, and a total surprise. To hear the book, read by Sian Phillips, as the dance accompaniment, enhanced by an original score, was sublime. This is a beautiful and wonderfully creative telling of the much abused but loved Christmas Carol. It, unlike most every other production, is not bombastic or over produced. To hear Dickens' words, and not someone's idea of what they should be, spoken by the wonderful voice of Sian Phillips, is a rare treat. Granted, it takes a minute to get into it seeing that I is completely choreographed, but trust me, it's a treat!
I was bored after the first 15 minutes. I can see how you turn the typical traditional a Christmas Carol into a modern art form, but your last message completely.
I was bored after year cardboard characters turning to life, yeah ballet or modern dances which was great but didn't say a word the mouths weren't moving.
What's going on with you guys in Hollywood can't you make better movies than this this is for people with dementia Alzheimer's.
You people should be ashamed yourself for putting crap out there in digital format don't waste the memory the ram, whatever the gigabytes save them and shove them up where the sun don't shine.
Is one of the worst adaptations of a Christmas Carol you should be disgraced you're a D minus you losers I could make a better movie than this and if I edit it it wouldn't be as long as it was it be 45 minutes. Get it you're a bunch of idiots out there in Hollywood!
I was bored after year cardboard characters turning to life, yeah ballet or modern dances which was great but didn't say a word the mouths weren't moving.
What's going on with you guys in Hollywood can't you make better movies than this this is for people with dementia Alzheimer's.
You people should be ashamed yourself for putting crap out there in digital format don't waste the memory the ram, whatever the gigabytes save them and shove them up where the sun don't shine.
Is one of the worst adaptations of a Christmas Carol you should be disgraced you're a D minus you losers I could make a better movie than this and if I edit it it wouldn't be as long as it was it be 45 minutes. Get it you're a bunch of idiots out there in Hollywood!
Dance, animation and a pretty accurate usage of the words from the book.
The dance is elegant, delicate, wonderfully lit and excellently filmed....like watching a ballet on stage.
The narration and voices of the characters is thoughtful and engaging.
Set on an imaginary stage in a family house with the matriarch narrating the story, the performance takes the audience into the house/set built by the children in the opening scene. And from there, the detailing begins.
It's not a busy production. For that, watch the Disney one or The Muppets...But if you want a more authentic feeling production, as if enjoying a production in a musty Victorian theatre, then this is simply gorgeous.
The dance is elegant, delicate, wonderfully lit and excellently filmed....like watching a ballet on stage.
The narration and voices of the characters is thoughtful and engaging.
Set on an imaginary stage in a family house with the matriarch narrating the story, the performance takes the audience into the house/set built by the children in the opening scene. And from there, the detailing begins.
It's not a busy production. For that, watch the Disney one or The Muppets...But if you want a more authentic feeling production, as if enjoying a production in a musty Victorian theatre, then this is simply gorgeous.
Did you know
- TriviaThea Achillea and Andy Serkis had also previously acted in A Christmas Carol (2019) which, unlike this film, is a live action mini-series that was originally broadcast on BBC the year before this film's release. Both Achillea and Serkis played different roles in each adaptation.
- ConnectionsFeatured in 'Tis the Season: The Holidays on Screen (2022)
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $179,750
- Runtime
- 1h 34m(94 min)
- Color
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