A Christmas Carol is animated and Jim Carrey attempts to do a Yorkshire accent.
As a child this was my favourite version of the Dicken’s classic, however, now watching it all these years later I find it has rather lost its charm. In many senses this suffers from the same sort of problem as The Polar Express and that is to say that the animation leans a little too closely into the uncanny valley and comes off as quite menacing and upsetting at times.
I appreciated Carrey’s performance and thought it was a high point of the film for sure, even his questionable Yorkshire accent for the Ghost of Christmas Present. His Scrooge really does feel the part in a way that a lot of the other on screen depictions just don’t.
I would argue that the ending needs a bit of work as when the transformation happens and Scrooge becomes nice rather than this feeling happy and like a personality shifted, it comes across a little bit manic here and a little as though Scrooge is having a breakdown. I would have said a positive but more subdued performance would have worked better here than a louder and more over the top one.
Overall, though a novel idea to animated the classic Christmas tale it is not without its issues.
2.5/5
Pros.
Carrey
Some impressive visuals
It is entertaining
Cons.
The animation can be too uncanny valley
The ending is a little too manic
It has pacing issues
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