A good movie

I already saw this movie, I even saw it in the movie theater when it was released but, since it was a while back and since it was available on Disney+, I thought I might as well check it out again. I have to admit it, I never really was a huge fan of Robert Zemeckis’ work but I have to admit that there has always been something intriguing about his movies, at least, some of them. Eventually, from the 3 motion-capture features he had delivered, this one was not as good as ‘Beowulf’ was (it was easily the best of the bunch in my opinion) but it still managed to be better than the creepy ‘The Polar Express’. Anyway, I rather enjoyed this feature after all. Indeed, the animation was quite awesome at the time but, more than 10 years later, it did look terribly dated though. Apparently, I didn’t see it in 3D when it was released and, when I was re-watching it, I actually wished I did because the whole movie was obviously shot to be seen this way.  Concerning the story, it is a classic and it was fairly entertaining but, to be honest, not really much more than that though. Jim Carrey also seemed to have a blast playing Ebenezer Scrooge. Basically, the only real issue I had was the fact that Zemeckis chose not only again another story based on Christmas but also one very old tale which had been told already in so many different versions and, personally, I’m not a huge fan of this classic story. Anyway, since it was already his 3rd underperforming effort using this technology, Robert Zemeckis seems to have dropped this genre (at least for now). To conclude, even though it was nothing really amazing, it was still pretty impressive visually speaking (at least, when it was released) and I think it is worth a look, especially if you are interested in Zemeckis’ work.

7/10