With Halloween over, Thanksgiving on the way and Christmas already on everyone’s minds, Disney cornered the market on the first Christmas movie to hit theaters this year. It’s the classic Charles Dickens story, “A Christmas Carol.” Jim Carrey stars in this story as the famous character Ebenezer Scrooge, and he also stars as the ghosts of past, present and future. The roles are a bit out of place from Carrey’s usual comedy roles, but he portrays the characters well.
The main story follows Scrooge, a lonely miser who despises Christmas with his very being. He turns away charity requests, begrudges his nephew and destroys his clerk’s cheery spirit.

On Christmas Eve, he is given a chance to redeem himself in life by the ghost of his deceased partner Jacob Marley by following three ghosts and seeing the error of his ways in the past, present and future.
The visual aspects of the movie are breathtaking combined with the 3-D glasses that make viewers feel as though they’re in the story.  Audience members are transported to London with tiny snowflakes falling literally in front of them.  Characters pop out and almost seem to touch viewers. The movie itself tends to be closer to the actually story that Dickens wrote in that it is not a complete warm and fuzzy Christmas tale.

However, it takes some liberties in scenes in which Scrooge shrinks down to about the size of a mouse and is chased by horses from hell. The movie also has a lot of scenes that makes viewers jump out of their seats and could possibly frighten children.

Overall, the story is darker than what most audiences are accustomed to, but it still gets the classic point across that Christmas is something to cherish with friends and families and that cheer and good will should be spread all over.