Family

Comedy

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Universal Pictures

Imagine Entertainment

LUNI Productions

Dr. Seuss Enterprises

United States of America

Germany

English

Jim Carrey

Taylor Momsen

Jeffrey Tambor

Christine Baranski

Bill Irwin

Molly Shannon

Clint Howard

Josh Ryan Evans

Mindy Sterling

Bryce Dallas Howard

Lacey Kohl

Rachel Winfree

Rance Howard

Jeremy Howard

T.J. Thyne

Nadja Pionilla

Jim Meskimen

Michael Dahlen

David Costabile

Mary Stein

James Ritz

Deep Roy

Jessica Sara

Mason Lucero

Ben Bookbinder

Michaela Gallo

Landry Allbright

Reid Kirchenbauer

Rebecca Chace

Suzanne Krull

Steve Kehela

Lillias White

Rain Pryor

John Alexander

Kevin Isola

Gavin Grazer

Walter Franks

Verne Troyer

Clayton Martinez

Q'orianka Kilcher

Caroline Williams

John Short

Grainger Esch

Eva Burkley

Rick Baker

Bill Sturgeon

Mark Setrakian

Jurgen Heimann

Tim Blaney

Charles Croughwell

Frank Welker

Anthony Hopkins

Ron Howard

Brian Grazer

Jeffrey Price

Peter S. Seaman

James Horner

Daniel P. Hanley

Donald Peterman

Mike Hill

Ve Neill

Todd Hallowell

Rachel Wyn Dunn

Barry E. Jackson

Bob Camp

Lisa Hoyle

Bill Corso

Allen Hall

Kurt Williams

Scott A. Hecker

Kenneth L. Johnson

John LaSalandra

Janet Hirshenson

Kazu Hiro

Julian Levi

Joe E. Rand

Aldric La'Auli Porter

David Hyman

Dan Webster

Mike Anderson

Michael J. Malone

Brian Thomas Nist

Jane Jenkins

Dan Bronson

Toni G

David MacMillan

Bonnie Greenberg

Dr. Seuss

Lauren E. Polizzi

Eric A. Norris

Michael Geisler

Christopher Flick

Jim Henrikson

Patricia Miller

David Womark

Debra Wolff

Joyce Cox

Nina Paskowitz

Leslie Park

Lou Pecora

Judith M. Brown

Chris O'Hara

Sylvia Nava

Deborah Rutherford

Kevin Scott Mack

Gail Rowell-Ryan

Rita Ryack

Michael Corenblith

Merideth Boswell

Michael Key

Kelly Port

Darlene Ava Williams

Clayton J. Barber

Kevin Abercrombie

Laura Albert

Pat Banta

Richie Gaona

Tabby Hanson

Jane Oshita

Terry Notary

Gregg Smrz

Chris Sayour

Wyatt Tipton

Sonny Tipton

Ben Scott

Jake Lombard

Svetla Krasteva

Thomas J. Larsen

Gary Dionne

Ronald Batzdorff

Marc Dominic Rienzo

Matthew E. Butler

Kamurai

Really good watch, will eventually watch again, and can recommend, but less so for younger audiences.

I never remembered all the weird adult humor in this, it is usually just the charming grinchiness of Jim Carey's overacting that sticks with me, and maybe the Christmas spirit of Mary Lou Who.

The movie manages to ride this wonderfully line between keeping the spirit of the book (even rhyming at times) and being new and refreshing, but it does do that by playing to the adults that would have read the book as a child rather than endearing a new generation of children, but I think they intended to try to do both.

Jim Carey embodies the Grinch like no one else possibly could (I think Mike Myers proved that in "The Cat in the Hat"), and that is the majority of this so if you don't enjoy him, then you won't enjoy this movie.  I do think they added some refreshing character interactions, though some of the execution is much better than others.

While it is far from a perfect movie, my biggest gripe is their stupid noses: it seriously bothers me the entire movie.  It bothers me more than them dressing the Grinch, which points out that he is naked a LOT with his "co lead" being a young girl: you can see it just distracts from the spirit of the movie.

I don't think that everyone is going to love this movie, but it's hard to imagine that people will hate it.

I'm not gonna lie, this version of the Grinch scared the crap out of me when I was a kid!

But as I got older I started to get use to it.
The trick was to just listen to the whole thing without looking at it and gradually (each year take a peak).

Andre Gonzales

At first I didn't like this movie. It's one of my daughters favorites tho. So she would always want to watch a lot around Christmas time. Now I don't mind it and it's like a Christmas tradition for us now to watch this movie.

Courtney

This is my favorite version and has been my favorite since I was a small child.

Filipe Manuel Neto

**A movie about Christmas, and about the way we face it.**

For starters, I must clarify that I have never seen any other material about Grinch, much less the original book where this character was created. I will judge this movie for what it is, without weaves comparisons. He is not my Christmas favorite, never was, I even think it is a little scary for smaller children, given the mischiefs and attitude of Grinch. But it has a good story, good dialogues and other qualities.

What is Christmas? Many will say that's the family or children's party. I accept, but in fact, it is the symbolic date that the Catholic Church marks the birth of Jesus. No one knows when Jesus was born, but the Church chose the date for convenience, coinciding the feast with an older pagan celebration, Saturnalia. For centuries, Christmas was just a festive day when Catholics confessed themselves, listened to Mass and ate fish (the consumption of meat and candy is forbidden on holy days, even though the elites did, by paying cash indulgences... in my country it's still tradition to eat codfish in Christmas Eve). The "invention" of modern Christmas happened in the late nineteenth century, with capitalism, and the creation of toy industries and food industries that allowed the middle classes a more interesting supper and the gift for children, offered to them by Baby Jesus and, later, for the invented character of Father Natal (in Spain, this exchange of gifts is only made on the day of kings in January, what I think makes full sense). This is how, in England, Germany and the US, Christmas became more commercial, more focused on consuming, gift distribution and conviviality, and the religious aspect was putted in the background.

This movie, released in the 1980s, shows us an evil character who learned to see Christmas as futile due to this obsession with toys, gifts and food. He does not know how to express this in the best way, he's unaware that behind this is a greater meaning, but what Grinch rejects is precisely this "commercial Christmas." And I couldn't agree more with him… So, through his mischiefs, Grinch will help people to rediscover the meaning of Christmas, even if this is not his real purpose. This is the beauty of this story, for me: Grinch will help the Whoos while they will help him to understand that Christmas is more than gifts or food.

Directed by Ron Howard, a director whose credits do not require presentations, the film is very well done and was a gigantic box office hit and critical success. It became a Christmas classic, although today it is not so popular. With no dead moments, it has an excellent pace, it does not lengthen too much, it is not tiring, and the script does what it needs, although with various flaws and several jokes that are not working. I liked, in particular, the narrator's interventions and rhymes, something that reinforces the idea that this is a children's story. Cinematography is amazing, with vibrant and flashy colors, and the soundtrack, not being memorable, has good qualities.

Jim Carrey did very well in accepting the difficult task of bringing Grinch to life. I can only imagine how boring it was for him to be subject to that make-up routine every day, but it was totally worth the time and sacrifice: he's unrecognizable and absolutely credible and authentic under that thing, and has a natural gift to model the voice as he wants and suits to the character. Sir Anthony Hopkins also deserves praise for his participation, having lent his voice to the narrator. The rest does a positive job, but merely supports Carrey in its task of building the movie around it.

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