Published on: 22nd July, 2009

Release Date: November 6, 2009
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Producer: Jack Rapke
Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Cary Elwes, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Fantasy, Family
Academy Award Laureate Robert Zemeckis’s ‘Disney’s A Christmas Carol’ is a manifold exhilarating experience in innovative 3-D, that aptly showcases the incredible spirit of a classic Dickens story. It is a puritanical morality tale of an aged, harsh magpie, Ebenezer Scrooge who during the period of a single night goes through an insightful experience of deliverance.
Mr. Scrooge is a backer who has spent an entire lifetime in accretion of mammon. Neither Amity, love nor even the Christmas Season failed to stir the cynical money-hoarder. Mr. Scrooge starts off the Christmas holiday with his usual whining and stingy scorn, not missing to pick on his devoted, underpaid clerk, Bob Crachit and jolly nephew, Tiny Tim. But a run into the wraithlike form of Jacob Marley, his ex-business partner, leads to a sequence of baffling, paranormal encounters with the three spirits of his past, present and future that help him comprehend the true magical spirit of Christmas.
Jim Carrey, the man of many faces, effortlessly metamorphoses from playing Scrooge at all ages to the role of the three spirits. The movie yet again attests Zemekis’s fine skills at story narration via the casements of time, a formula that he fruitfully employed in his past movies like The Polar Express and Beowulf.