Disney's A Christmas Carol Critic Reviews

An exhilarating visual experience and proves for the third time he's (Zemeck) is one of the few directors who knows what he's doing with 3-D.Read the full review

A marvelous and touching yuletide toy of a movie.Read the full review

Shockingly, the new film turns out to be very good, at times close to brilliant: a darkly detailed marvel of creative visualization that does well by Dickens and right by audiences - when it’s not trying to sell them a theme park ride.Read the full review

If some of the animation overdoes it, a lot of it is downright gorgeous. Few images this year have followed me home like the Ghost of Christmas Past, here imagined as a bright-flamed candle with the face of a child. It flickers. It whispers. It flies.Read the full review

There's something to be said for the power of a classic, even if it has been given an imperfect makeover.Read the full review

A Christmas Carol -- I mean the source material, without a corporate possessive attached to it -- remains among the most moving works of holiday literature, and Mr. Zemeckis has remained true to its finest sentiments. He is an innovator, but his traditionalism is what makes this movie work.Read the full review

Nearly every line of dialogue in this adaptation of A Christmas Carol comes directly from the story. What interpolations there are have to do with juicing up the transitions between scenes with unnecessary, but not obnoxiously intrusive, action.Read the full review

This Christmas Carol seems like a pale ghost of Dickens' magical Christmas classic.Read the full review

The holiday spirit feels real, but the film does not.Read the full review