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| Director: Robert Zemeckis (2009) |
It’s been a long time since acclaimed
director Robert Zemeckis made a film that isn’t motion capture. A Christmas
Carol continues this streak, a retelling of the famous Charles Dickens story
not with humans or Muppets, but actors in mocap suits. Jim Carrey is the
unforgettable Ebenezer Scrooge, a money loving Christmas hating miserable
excuse of a man. Visited by 3 ghosts to lead him on a journey of self
redemption, we witness Scrooges past, present and future through an animated
lens. While it’s a pretty film, the obnoxious English accents and hideous dead
eye syndrome that plagues such a visual style does little to help recommending
this film over the myriad of other Christmas Carol films. The performances and
cinematography are solid, but by the end of the film things feel a little
unnecessary, there are better alternatives.
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