The Christmas Carol Movie

I went to see The Christmas Carol 3D movie at the weekend.

I love all of the different versions of The Christmas Carol and I thought this one was one of the best by far. Watching it in 3D gave the movie something special.

Jim Carey was Scrooge and also played some of the ghosts. And as usual, he acted his parts brilliantly. His character was stingy, unfeeling and abrubt but he gave Scrooge a funny side that the other Christmas Carol films didn't give him before.

The film is about a very wealthy man who is mean to everybody, especially his employee. He lets poverty surround him and believes that those who aren't as well off as him should suffer. He is visited by 3 ghosts Christmas Eve to make him see that he should change or he will suffer the consequences.

The ghost of Christmas past vistits him first. This ghost brings him back to when he was a young boy. He was an lovely young boy. He met a lovely girl and married her. Watching all this brings back memories of times when he was happy and a person who cared for others. As he got older, his personality changed to a totally different person - the pereson he is now. His wife left him and here he is alone.

The ghost of Christmas present visits him next. He shows Scrooge how others are suffering around him. He sees his employee and his family struggling to look after their sick son, and how they are failing to have a nice Christmas dinner because of the stingy pay Scrooge is giving to him. Here, Scrooge is realising how his behaviour has effected others around him.

The last ghost to visit Scrooge is the ghost of Chritmas future. This is the most scary part of the film. It brings Scrooge into the future where he sees his grave marked "Died 25th December", but it doesn't show the year. Scrooge wakes up from this alive and he is over the moon to have been given a second chance to make things better for himself and everybody around him. Beacuse of his experiences Christmas Eve night, he has turned into a jolly, generous man who helps out his employee's family a lot.

I thouroughy enjoyed this film. Watching it in 3D gave it an added effect. I thought it was quirky, and the characters and settings looked very realistic for a cartoon.

The only thing that I didn't like about the film was that it was a bit too scary for a children's film. In my opinion, a child of 5 or 6 would have found it very scary. As it as a film for children, I thought it was a bit too scary. I even jumped at some stages in the film!

Because of this I would give The Christmas Carol 9/10. I thought Jim Carey acted brilliantly in it and the 3 ghosts were very effective, each in their own way. Even though I thought it was a bit scary for a child's cartoon, I thouroughly enjoyed watching it and would definetly watch it every year as a favourite Christmas movie.