People are voting emotionally.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

A very greedy, self-centered and rude old man is about to be visited in the Christmas eve by three Christmas spirits which will try to change his miserable life, offering a last change for salvation.A classic and very popular story of Charles Dickens transformed into a Disney animation, with Jim Carrey interpreting the main character is definitely a recipe for success, as this movie will prove. Very well animated, dark but also joyful when it was required, this movie tells how not to be in life by flashing the life of an old man through his eyes, in an attempt to make him understand his mistakes and correct his inappropriate attitude. It uses Christmas as the perfect opportunity to tell its story and it does it flawlessly, according to the original story. It's emotional, full of Christmas spirit and has a lot to learn from its plot. A clear recommendation from me, especially during the winter holidays.

I just finished watching this film..... and I loved it! I absolutely love how the ghosts of christmas were represented, and might I add, Jim Carrey did wonderfully as scrooge and the ghosts alike! 10/10!

The Bad:For some reason, I just didn't like this movie. It's hard to pin down why, since there are so many version of this tale out there and I enjoy almost all of them – why not this one? Perhaps it's the animation? The motion capture technique used should have made the animation more realistic, but really, really didn't. Perhaps it is the fact that I never end up caring for Scrooge, but also didn't like how callously he's treated. Perhaps it's the fact that Jim Carrey (an actor I don't particularly care for) seems to be every single character. Several scenes, especially "chase scenes" drag considerably as well.The Good: As with any re-telling of this famous tale, there's a fantastic moral wrapped up inside. This movie is also more authentic to the book than most, which was written as a Christmas Ghost Story, not a sweet, touching family story. I like that some of the dialogue is "Old Fashioned" - taken directly from the book.The Mom View:If I were to pick a version of this story to have my kids watch, it wouldn't be this one. For the youngest, I'd pick the animated Mickey version. Slightly older, and I'd go with Muppets. Older still and I'd pick either the 1999 version starring Patrick Stewart or the 1951 version. So while this isn't horrible, it's kind of mediocre, forgettable, and not worth the effort of finding when there are better versions out there. My overall opinion? Meh.

Robert Zemeckis has adapted and directed this version of Dickens's much- loved classic and presented it in motion-capture animation, available in 2D and 3D, lovingly intent on preserving the Christmassy brand in every rich and rosy detail. He creates digital imagery derived from live- action performers – just as in his 2004 Christmas fairytale The Polar Express and the 2007 version of Beowulf, which Zemeckis produced. The advantage is that the actors' recreated physical existences are now seamlessly part of an imagined universe and so quite as malleable. Jim Carrey plays Scrooge not merely as an old man, but as the happy young apprentice shown to him by the Ghost of Christmas Past, as the more careworn coming man of business who chooses money over love, and even as the lonely seven-year-old boy. They all look plausibly like the various ages of Jim Carrey – although, for me, the motion-capture technique always makes children's faces slightly creepy and robotic. Carrey plays all the ghosts, too, interestingly suggesting that they are projections of his own conscience. Gary Old man provides the real-world template for both Bob Cratchit and Marley. Zemeckis places the characters in a London that twists and stretches its setting to reflect the macabre mood. Consider Scrooge's living room, as narrow and tall just as he is. The home of his nephew Fred, by contrast, is as wide and warm as Fred's personality. Animation provides the freedom to show just about anything, and Zemeckis uses it. Occasionally, he even seems to be evoking the ghost of Salvador Dali, as in a striking sequence where all the furniture disappears and a towering grandfather clock looms over Scrooge and a floor slanting into a distant perspective. The three starring ghosts are also spectacular grotesques. I like the first, an elfin figure with a head constantly afire and a hat shaped like a candle-snuffer. Sometimes he playfully shakes his flames like a kid tossing the hair out of his eyes. After another (ahem) ghost flies out the window, Scrooge runs over to see the whole street filled with floating spectral figures, each one chained to a heavy block, like so many Chicago mobsters sleeping with the fishes. I like the way that Zemeckis does it. He seems to have a more sure touch than many other directors, using 3-D instead of being used by it. If the foreground is occupied by close objects, they're usually looming inward, not out over our heads. Note the foreground wall-mounted bells that we look past when Scrooge, far below, enters his home; as one and then another slowly starts to move, it's a nice little touch. It's a faithful adaptation, and if you're taking little kids to see it, well, watches out – there are some scary moments, especially the time- honored shocker when ghostly Marley's lower jaw falls away. But there is a weird lack of passion here, almost condescension, and a sense that Scrooge's agonized moral journey into his past is potentially pretty dull, and so Zemeckis is always livening things up by whooshing the old miser excitingly through the night sky between visions – a London thrill-ride perhaps influenced by the Harry Potter movies. The hi-tech sheen is impressive, but in an unexciting way. I wanted to see real human faces convey real human emotions.