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Article: ALSO SHOWING
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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DISNEY'S A CHRISTMAS CAROL Cert PG, 96 mins "IT'S as if Charles
Dickens wrote this story to be a movie," says Robert Zemeckis, the
writer-director of this splendidly mounted and visually imaginative
animated 3D version of the classic novel. That's true enough -- but
what we get from him is a thrill ride rather than the sentimental
kick of the best versions.
This time Scrooge is voiced, a little peculiarly, by Jim Carrey
who also does the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.
Gary Oldman plays Bob Cratchit, Young Marley, Marley's Ghost and --
who would have thought it? -- Tiny Tim.
It is admirable in many ways but you get the feeling that someone
didn't quite trust the story. ...