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A Christmas Carol Trailer Online
The latest film to take on the Christmas Carol is coming our way this upcoming holiday season. Today, a trailer has hit the net!
I don’t know how this escaped me, but I didn’t realize it was going to be all CGI. I was looking forward to seeing Jim Carrey as Scrooge AND all of the Spirits, but he is just voicing them. He will do a fine job, but this feels a little too much like The Polar Express to me, and that dampens my enthusiasm.
My iPhone won’t allow me to view the video, but I have a good idea about what you’re saying, and that Polar Express analogy definitely set the picture in my mind of how this film could turn out.
It’ll probably be a hit among younger viewers…but I guess we won’t have an overall idea until there’s more hype.
Okay, took the moment to watch the trailer. It actually looks like it’ll have some funny parts (I think Carrey is hilarious), and that might be it’s saving grace if it’s just going to recycle the story again. My earlier comment still stands that we probably won’t have an idea of it’s success until we get closer.
Wow! I’m pleasantly surprised by the trailer. Robert Zemeckis, Jim Carrey, and a timeless Christmas story…I’m sold.
I didn’t notice it was all CGI until the trailer either. The CGI looks great though. It looks like they still modeled Carrey for Scrooge. It also looks like they used MoCap so he probably acted it out as well.
Looks good from what I’ve seen. A Christmas Carol is probably my favorite Christmas story. So I’ll be looking forward to this.
I didnt like Polar Express because of the animation style, at least this one looks better. Not sure if I will like it that much because I thought Scrooged with Bill Murray and A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart were my favorites of this story retold.
I think it would have been better if it was live action not CGI. Who would have not loved to see Jim Carrey in makeup again.
I don’t know…I watch the trailer and it doesn’t do anything for me. I have no intersted in this movie and it doesn’t look that good, in my opinion. Perhaps it is because I’m simply over Jim Carrey and don’t want to see him play Scrooge and voice the other characters.
Why do we need this many versions of A Christmas Carol?
Your gonna shoot your eye out! What? Wrong movie?
I must admit though, Zemekis keeps getting better with this motion capture. This doesn’t look anywhere near as creepy and ackward as Polar Express did.
finally a movie worth watching this coming Christmas season, even though i’m 21 years old i still love to watch the story of scrooge…
Gutted it’s CG, was hoping live action, JC would have been great
While the CGI looks amazing (and realistic), I too am sort of bummed the whole thing is CGI. I had known this movie was coming out for a while, but really hadn’t seen much about it (in terms of pics, info, etc.) until now.
I doubt it will dethrone Scrooged as the best adaptation of the story. Probably won’t be as good as the muppet version…
The Muppets’ version is by far the definitive interpretation.
Agreed.
oh yes
I think it would have been way better acted. CGI just cannot reproduce the wide range of Jim Carrey’s facial expressions. Too bad. I loved him in The Mask and The Grinch. I am not thrilled about this movie. (How many Christmas Carol versions are we going to suffer? Fresh ideas anyone?)
the trailer came out today? o_O i’ve been seeing this trailer for quite some time already…
I LOVE this trailer. Honestly. And what was wrong with Polar Express?
Those zombie-eyed kids will give you nightmares.
I didn’t find anything wrong with the eyes. But the black girl was so annoying in that movie.
And creepy.
Yeah…she was…that smile scared the s**t outta me.
I loved the movie though. I find Beowulf way better though. That movie kicks ass
“Yeah…she was…that smile scared the s**t outta me.”
Don’t remind me.
This will unfortunately make more money than Avatar.
the chirstmas carolhas been remade who knows how many times but the cgi traler looked good
Uninspired that all I have to say.
this movie looks good
for a story that is roughly 166 years old that looked surprisingly fresh and interesting. i especially liked the part where scrooge is on the rocket cap of truth and it disappears leaving him to fall. definitely got my attention to say the least.
I’m a big big big big big big big big big big
fan of A CHRISTMAS CAROL and CHARLES DICKERNS STORY, so regardless how bad the movie is, at least I know the storyline will be superior !!!!
WATCHING IT DEFINITLEY !!!!
Personally, I’ve really been enjoying Zemeckis’ motion-capture – for the lack of a better word – trend. Now, I wasn’t crazy about The Polar Express, but it was certainly worth watching a couple of times. I was absolutely blown away, though, by his version of Beowulf; it’s one of the relatively few movies that I’ve given a 10/10, just for sheer entertainment value.
Anyway, I’m really impressed by this trailer. This film is definitely now among my most anticipated ones of the remainder of the year.
Where are these people coming from that didn’t know this thing was going to be completely CG? I never heard anything different about this movie, ever.
Anyway, looks like it could be a good fun film, but really…we’ve seen it all before. Give us something different.