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Release Date: 01 January, 2001 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (5 total) |
How the Grinch Stole Christmas Reviews
SUV vs. STATION WAGON
Welcome to the year 2000. Alot of things have changed since 1966.
Just as you wouldn't compare an encyclopedia to the internet, there's no sense comparing the Grinch cartoon to Grinch the movie.
Fortunately the original feature is still with us and still enjoyed by children every holiday season. Now, however, they have a version for their generation as well.
Kids today live in the world of high tech flash and kid TV stations that blare dumb jokes and comercials 24 hours a day.
They play extreme sports, have their own fashions and vacation in Disneyworld. Movies need to be in touch with their audience and this one is.
Some people complain that it's "too loud" and garish - they cringe at the nasty jokes ( which are funny enough to be forgiven and - compared to the really vapid trash in so many movies today - are nothing ) and bemoan the dark edge of some of the scenes. Alas, not everything can be all things to all people - - -unless they are kids.
Ask an eight year old to give you his oppinion and he'll probably tell you that it was funny and cool and sometimes scary.
It doesn't get much better than that.
The Grinch also gives us something else - a benchmark performance. I always suspected Jim Carey had uncommon talent but his scripts up till this one were dreadful. His portrayal of the Grinch belongs in the company of Karloff's Frankenstein, Lugosi's Dracula, Betty Davis in All About Eve as a quintessential pairing of actor and role.
Ron Howard's direction must have been good because I didn't notice it. I got the feeling you were watching people having fun while working. It flows well and the characters instead of the camera propell the film. A nice touch, perhaps the directors, is the last long pull out from the banquet hall in Whoville to an arial view to a cosmic view that reveals itself to be in actuality an extreme close up of a single slowflake drifting with it's million brothers on route to a fleeting existance before melting. I think that puts the themes of greed, revenge, rage and our time together nicely in perspective.
The Flintstones are a beloved classic too but the movie version had no merit. Are you really going to be upset that now there are two succesful versions of Dr. Seuss' wonderful book?
A Superb Holiday Film - For All Ages! Jim Carrey Is Great!
You really can't say enough about Dr Suess' How The Grinch Stole Christmas. It is, in my opinion, the greatest Holiday film ever. It would'nt have been as good without Jim Carrey. I think he did the best job as "The Grinch". He is believable, hilarious, and exactly what the real movie Grinch should have looked like. The visual effects are extremely great, as well as the Who's. (Molly Shannon is very good). Based on the book & the cartoon, the magic of the film is unbelievable, as you will laugh until you cry and you will not belive your eyes as the brilliant brings How The Grinch Stole Christmas to life. This film will be a classic from now on, and Jim Carrey will always be remembered as the "vile" Mr. Grinch!
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDED:
• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, DTS Surround Sound, Dolby
• Production notes
• Spotlight on location
• Deleted scenes
• Outtakes
• Whoville section (includes Who School, Jim Carrey make up application, set decorations visual effects)
• Faith Hill music video
• Sing-Along songs
• Read-Along songs
• DVD ROM: "Add a Grinch to your own photograph, screen savers games, recipes
• Full-screen format (1:33:1)(...)
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