In Victorian-era London, Ebenezer Scrooge, a greedy, penny-pinching, and lonely moneylender, refuses to partake in the merriment of Christmas. On Christmas Eve, he declines his cheerful nephew Fred's invitation to the annual Christmas dinner party and dismisses two gentlemen who are collecting money for charity. His loyal employee Bob Cratchit requests to not work on Christmas Day so he can spend time with his family, to which Scrooge reluctantly agrees.
That night, Scrooge encounters the shackled ghost of his late business partner Jacob Marley in his bed chambers. Marley warns Scrooge to repent his ways or suffer a worse fate, before informing him that three spirits will visit him and guide him away from this miserable existence. At one o'clock, Scrooge is visited by the candle-like Ghost of Christmas Past, who shows him visions of his childhood and early adult life. They see his lonely boarding school days, his relationship with his beloved sister Fan and his time as an apprentice for moneylender Nigel Fezziwig. The young Scrooge meets a young woman named Belle, with whom he falls in love, but his focus on accruing wealth drives them apart. Seeing this, a devastated Scrooge extinguishes the Ghost's flame and returns home.
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Scrooge next meets the merry Ghost of Christmas Present, who shows how others find joy on Christmas Day. Scrooge and the Ghost visit Bob's house, learning his family is content with their small dinner and meagre home. Scrooge starts to take pity on Bob's ill son Tiny Tim, whom the rapidly ageing Ghost comments might not survive until next Christmas. They next visit Fred's house, where Fred insists the guests raise a toast to Scrooge in spite of his stinginess and general ill will. Before the Ghost withers away, he shows Scrooge the evils of "Ignorance" and "Want".
Soon after, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come takes Scrooge into the future where a recent death elicits no sympathy from London's inhabitants. Scrooge sees his charwoman Mrs. Dilber trade the deceased's possessions to fence named Old Joe as well as the deceased's body. The Ghost also shows Scrooge the Cratchits' home, where they find Bob and his family mourning Tiny Tim. Later, Scrooge is led to a nearby cemetery, where the Ghost points out his own grave, revealing Scrooge as the man who died. Scrooge desperately vows to change his ways before falling into his empty coffin and finding himself returned to his bedroom in the present.
Discovering it is Christmas Day, a gleeful Scrooge begins spreading happiness and joy around London, surprising the Cratchits with a turkey dinner, agreeing to give money to the gentlemen's charity, and then attending Fred's Christmas dinner. The next day, Scrooge raises Bob's salary and pledges his support for the Cratchits. Scrooge becomes a father figure to Tiny Tim, who overcomes his ailments and is restored to health, and now treats everyone with kindness, generosity, and compassion, thus embodying the Christmas spirit.
The Walt Disney Company partnered with Amtrak to promote the film with a special nationwide exhibition train tour, starting at Los Angeles in May 2009 and visiting 40 cities, finishing in New York City in November.[12][13]
The film's music was written, composed, orchestrated and conducted by Alan Silvestri. The film's music was also orchestrated by William Ross, Conrad Pope and John Ashton Thomas and performed by London Voices and The Hollywood Studio Symphony.[14] Much of the film's music was based on actual Christmas carols such as "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen", "Deck the Halls", "O Come, All Ye Faithful", "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" and "Joy to the World". The film's theme song, titled "God Bless Us Everyone", was written by Glen Ballard and Alan Silverstri and performed by Italian classical crossover tenor Andrea Bocelli. The film's soundtrack album was recorded in 2009 at The Newman Scoring Stage in Los Angeles, California. The film's soundtrack album was also released on 3 November 2009 by Walt Disney Records.
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released the film on November 16, 2010[16] in a single-disc DVD, two-disc 2D Blu-ray/DVD combo and in a four-disc combo pack that includes a Blu-ray 3D, a regular Blu-ray, a DVD and a digital copy. This marked the first time that a film was available in Blu-ray 3D the same day as a standard Blu-ray,[citation needed] as well as Disney's first in the Blu-ray 3D market along with Alice in Wonderland (2010).[17] The DVD contains deleted scenes and two featurettes called "On Set with Sammi" and "Capturing A Christmas Carol". The Blu-ray also has a "Digital Advent Calendar" and the featurette "Behind the Carol: The Full Motion-Capture Experience". The Blu-ray 3D has an exclusive 3D game called "Mr. Scrooge's Wild Ride".
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 53% of 202 critics have given the film a positive review with an average rating of 6/10. The site's critical consensus read, "Robert Zemeckis' 3-D animated take on the Dickens classic tries hard, but its dazzling special effects distract from an array of fine performances from Jim Carrey and Gary Oldman."[21] On Metacritic, another aggregator, the film has a weighted average score of 55 out of 100 based on 32 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[22] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[23]
The film version I have always watched is the 1951 adaptation starring Alastair Sim, largely because a) I consider it the finest version ever made and b) because it brings back happy childhood memories, of when it was always on TV.
However, in 2013, I was asked to appear as an interviewee on Channel Five's Greatest Christmas Movies Ever to talk about various film versions of A Christmas Carol. As it happened, they didn't want me to speak about the Alastair Sim version but rather The Muppet Christmas Carol and Bill Murray's Scrooged, neither of which, I am ashamed to say, I had actually seen.
I have to say I loved them both, in particular The Muppets version, which, more or less, stuck closer to Dickens original story than practically any other film version - apart from giving Charles Dickens a big blue nose and introducing us to the Marley twins in order to make use of both Statler and Waldorf! I thought Michael Caine gave one of the best performances of Scrooge I've ever seen, imbuing him with a pathos that suggests he (Scrooge not Michael) is very much a product of a miserable past.
It set me wondering about all the different film adaptations there must have been over the years, and so I decided to begin researching the various celluloid incarnations of Ebenezer Scrooge by compiling a list of the many adaptations of A Christmas Carol and, having done so, I set about watching as many of them as I could.
But they, at least, present us with a wonderful chronology of the various renditions of the second greatest Christmas story ever told, together with a terrific insight into the many and varied ways in which actors have portrayed Scrooge over the more than 150 years since Dickens created him.
I hope you enjoy these various renditions and, should you happen to know of, or you happen to encounter, any online versions I've not included, please let me know in order that I can add them to the page.
Lasting just over 13 minutes, this adaptation, made in 1910 and directed by J. Searle Dawley for Thomas Edison's film production company, this version makes a reasonable go at presenting the important aspects of Dickens story, and the ghosts themselves are well attempted.
In the first scene, we encounter Scrooge sitting menacingly at his desk, counting up his ill-gotten gains, whilst his "downtrodden clerk", Bob Cratchit, sits at a desk in an outer "dismal cell", trying desperately to warm himself by a solitary candle.
Oh, you find yourself thinking, this Scrooge chappy must be "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner" - largely on account of the fact that these exact words have just flickered across the screen in front of you.
Evidently, Bob is no contender for the tidiest employee of the year award, 1923, as the floor of his "dismal cell" is strewn with discarded bits of paper; but, then again, maybe he's just so cold that his hand shakes too much form him to lob them accurately into the waste bin? Or, perhaps, Scrooge is just too mean to buy him one?
Bob decides to sneak into the office of his grumpy old employer, in order to acquire a little coal for his fire - which, given, as far as I could tell, he doesn't actually have a fire in his "dismal cell", is a bit of a pointless exercise, so it is little wonder that Scrooge sends him packing with a flea in his ear. At least, I think he does, it's difficult to tell with a silent film!
Suddenly, nephew Fred comes mincing in through Scrooge's door to wish him the compliments of the season, only to have his good wishes typed back at him with the words, "Humbug! Christmas time is a time to pay bills and a time for finding yourself a day older."
Scrooge, of course, has no truck with Fred's love of Christmas and bids him a solemn, "Good Afternoon", whereupon Fred heads out into the cold and foggy film set, where he encounters a cheeky street urchin, whom he flips a coin to.
With Fred gone, the boy takes up a position outside Scrooge's office and begins to sing a Christmas carol. Whereupon, Scrooge picks up a massive ledger, rushes out, and smashes the urchin over the head with it, before subjecting the poor boy to an assault so vicious, that I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if the actor playing the part of the jolly caroler didn't seek compensation for injuries received.
Evidently, the film's budget would only stretch to one charity gentleman, who pops in to implore Scrooge to contribute generously to the welfare of the poor, only to receive the well-known homily about the Union Workhouses, albeit the bit about the poor rather dying and decreasing the surplus population is omitted, no doubt on the grounds that somebody had just looked at the clock and realised that they still had an awful lot to cram into the remaining 16 minutes of running time. 152ee80cbc
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