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Article: A spirited `Carol' ; Director Zemeckis makes a leap in creative visualization with a stunning, fresh retelling of the Dickens classic
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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Every generation may get the "Christmas Carol" it deserves, from
the all-dancing, all-singing horrors of "Scrooge" (1970) to the
brash comic mugging of "Scrooged" (1988) to the sleaze of the recent
"Ghosts of Girlfriends Past." (The best? All votes for George C.
Scott and Mr. Magoo will be counted, but anyone who puts in the
research knows the 1951 British "Christmas Carol" starring Alastair
Sim is numero uno.)
How does Jim Carrey fit into this? The early 2000s are a time of
relentless technical whizbangery - if Dickens were alive, he'd
probably be tweeting "Martin Chuzzlewit" - so the latest "Christmas
Carol" is a thing of bits and bytes. More than that, it's filmmaker
Robert Zemeckis's ...