With a 2019 creation date, this short independent offering had only appeared as an Amazon Prime offering last year, 2020. Last year, I did not have a good reaction the first time I watched this for the first time. I never approach any first-time viewing of A Christmas Carol with […]
Every year I save most of the better versions of A Christmas Carol and Scrooge portrayals to view as it gets closer to Christmas Day. Some of them I splurge and watch earlier. It’s inevitable the classic 1951 Scrooge starring Alastair Sim would be on my watch list. I watch […]
As I’ve written in the past, “The Muppets and A Christmas Carol?” This was what I pondered on the release of The Muppet Christmas Carol in 1992. I’ve always been a fan of the Muppets and it’s pretty established by now how I feel about the story of A Christmas Carol. However, the combination of […]
Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol is one of my personal favorite versions. Even though I watch this every year, it’s not always included in the blog. However, I have now included it a few years in a row. Let’s get the well-known basics out of the way. This was made in […]
I really like silent movies. I’ve always tried to avoid judging any movie through the lens of the present and understand it by the terms of its own time. Doing that with this version just accentuates what I think are some of its failings. By the time the first movies […]
Today is the 1997 animated, direct-to-video version. 1997’s animated A Christmas Carol is a mediocre tidbit: not particularly good, but not so bad that I’d say to ignore it. This was done the same year as the live-action Ms. Scrooge. I consider it a juvenile version. The setting and adaptation are […]
The last decade of the 20th Century introduced the first adaptation of A Christmas Carol portraying the main character of Scrooge, at least, as a female instead of male. The 1990’s gave us at least two: first 1995’s Ebbie or Miracle at Christmas: Ebbie’s Story, followed by 1997’s Ms. Scrooge. […]
Ms. Scrooge, 1997 made for television, is the second attempt with some gender role reversal in A Christmas Carol (ACC), on the heels of 1995’s Ebbie. I don’t actually own a personal copy. When Ms. Scrooge was first released as a VHS after the initial broadcast, its retail price was […]
In the earlier post about Skinflint, I mentioned how 1979 was one of the more interesting years for A Christmas Carol adaptations. Rich Little’s Christmas Carol, though made in 1978, was first aired in ’79. All three of the major U.S. networks put something out that December. There was the animated […]
Rich Little’s Christmas Carol has the greatest all-star cast that never was. It is master impressionist Rich Little portraying all the characters of A Christmas Carol. Developed from an early routine, this expanded one-hour special was a CBC production airing on HBO in 1978. It wasn’t until the special was a few years […]