Not the uproarious comedy the Internet lead me to believe, but funny enough (Mary's very first movie, though she ate and slept through it and can't focus far enough away to see the screen anyway). (7/10)
d. Mike Judge
[198 movies watched in 2009]
Unfair or not, I have to say I prefer toys, robots, fish, superheroes and rats to old men. (7/10)
d. Pete Docter & Bob Peterson
In this version, I particularly liked the idea that Scrooge was rusty at being nice and having fun at the end of the story. (8/10)
d. David Hugh Jones
[Having watched 10 versions of this story during the holiday season, I'd rank them like this:
Lacks a certain energy I'd expect from a Muppet movie. (6/10)
d. Brian Henson
What I really want to see is that Christmas Carol in the movie starring Buddy Hackett, Jamie Farr and Mary Lou Retton. (8/10)
d. Richard Donner
Possibly it's nostalgia talking, but George C. Scott will always be my Scrooge. (8/10)
d. Clive Donner
This may sound silly for such a movie, but I think my main problem was that the killer snowman's dialogue was just a wee too cheezy (apropos of absolutely nothing: "Don't eat the yellow snow!"), making me wince when I should be enjoying the good-badness of the whole thing. (6/10)
d. Michael Cooney
If a Sandman movie has to be made, I now want del Toro to direct it. (8/10)
d. Guillermo del Toro
Props to the cinematographer for the colorful scenes that happily distracted me from the boring, poorly-achieved slasher plot. (5/10)
d. Glen Morgan
Lavish production design can't rescue the miscasting and annoying singing. (6/10)
d. Ronald Neame
A better Antichrist movie than The Omen if only because it features a priest rocking out to satanic heavy metal. (7/10)
d. Álex de la Iglesia
Fun stuff, but it needed more Bill Goldberg kicking butt. (6/10)
d. David Steiman
I love Alastair Sim's subtle performance as evil Scrooge in the beginning of the film and Michael Hordern's waling Marley is perhaps the best ever. (8/10)
d. Brian Desmond Hurst
Could'a been a good-bad movie -- the hammy Eric "Garbage Day" Freeman is awesome -- had we not been forced to re-watch a half hour of the first flick before getting to anything new. (5/10)
d. Lee Harry
Casualties of War in Iraq with non-proffesionals. (4/10)
d. Brian de Palma
An expensive-looking production dedicated to an unfocused script and de Palma's usual sloppiness. (5/10)
d. Brian de Palma
Possibly the happiest version of this story I've ever seen, though I still liked Reginald Owen's performance despite his too-early transformation during the second spirit's visit. (7/10)
d. Edwin L. Marin
A good ole '80s slasher flick wrapped up in Christmas cheer (I got an extra kick out of seeing the Christmas toys from when I was 7 on the shelves of the toy store). (7/10)
d. Charles E. Sellier Jr.
Some of the Santa kills were well done and the manner in which the killer was dispatched at the end was unexpected, but the film is kind of a mess otherwise. (6/10)
d. Edmund Purdom & Derek Ford & Ray Selfe
Good direction and a great performance from Brandon Maggart save what would otherwise be a relatively lifeless Christmas horror movie. (7/10)
d. Lewis Jackson
Many half-baked ideas converging at a location far from terrible, somehow. (6/10)
d. Brian de Palma
Okay, well, he can confidently film something in space, at least. (3/10)
d. Brian de Palma
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