His review was helpful to me primarily because I didn't have to write it myself. Like him, I love Dickens' story in most every telling and retelling but found this unwatchable in every way including the weird gray cast to the...cast. The song Scrooge sings to Marley's picture was where I gave up. It had an almost romantic vibe that would have been far less creepy had it seemed intentional rather than like a repressed and unrecognized impulse on Scrooge's part. Out of curiosity, I watched Kirk Cameron's "Saving Christmas" the other day. It's currently at a 1.5 rating and the second lowest rated film on all of IMDb. While Saving Christmas is not good by any stretch of the imagination, at least it had a kind of hypnotic weirdness that kept me watching all the way through. Frankly, I'd like to sentence everyone who gave Saving Christmas a 1 or 2 rating to an hour of watching this thing to see what Worst can really be.
Review of A Christmas Carol
