Best movie of this year hands down!

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Scrooge is not a story that should not be told with slap sick. I do not like slap sick it is form of you hummer that is not funny. It is just mean by nature. I do not know why people I give this movie a 7. It is overrated crap. This is a 4. It is not a 7. This is a classic story that been ruined by slap stick hummer. Slap stick hummer should never have been stared. Let alone put into a classic story. Do not waste your money do not waste your time. Do not see this movie. See A Christmas Carol (1951). Do not see this. See Scrooge (1908). Do not see this. It is awful. See A Christmas Carol (2009). Do not see this movie. This movie is pooh pooh.

this new watching left me disappointed while in my memories, it was a good moment: i'm sure that the lack of subtitles put me in pain but anyway this time i found the movie really dark, oppressive and not really funny in spite of being a Christmas tale! The past work of Dickens is a gloom reading, the future work of Zemeckis won't be lighter... In addition, if Murray has a few good lines, 99% of his time is being a really cold, totally acid, egocentric TV producer and that hurts! So it's not like having Christmas with cool Venkman but with the sad Connors...Sure the end of this tale warms the heart but the way to get there is as painful as a cold, dark winter night...

Frank Cross is the youngest president of the channel IBC and he's a jerk, to say the VERY least. A live telling of "A Christmas Carol" is scheduled to show on Christmas eve, meaning the crew and actors are going to have to work on Christmas eve, but does Frank Cross care? Heck no! He only cares about the money gained from his channels viewers. However, Frank gets a visit from his boss-who's been dead for the past ten years-telling him that he will be visited by three ghosts. As the visit gets closer and closer, Frank's life begins to resemble that of Ebenezer Scrooge's more and more."Scrooged" is an incredibly creative film. There have been countless retellings of "A Christmas Carol" over the years, and with each one the story gets more familiar and more tired. But with "Scrooged", Charles Dicken's story is given a breath of fresh air since it's set in modern day and centers around the yuppie culture of the 1980's. Bill Murray is perfectly cast as Frank Cross, in anyone else's hands Cross would have been unlikable even to when he redeems himself in the end. But, Murray is able to give Cross a few flashes of emotions other than anger and mean spiritedness. For real though, Bill Murray is really the only actor who could've successfully pulled the part off. Karen Allen is also perfectly cast as Frank Cross' ex girlfriend-Claire. Their chemistry feels very natural and even cute at points.If there's anything bad to say about "Scrooged" it's that when Frank eventually turns on Claire, choosing work over her, it feels a little too quick in the film. It would have been nice to see them on screen a little longer, but for what it is the relationship between Frank and Claire really, really works. Overall, "Scrooged" is a great retelling of "A Christmas Carol". It's funny, creative and surprisingly heartfelt in the end. It's not a perfect movie, some of the jokes could be tweaked a little, but over all "Scrooged" is highly recommended. It's a perfect film to get you into the mood for Christmas and if you're not watching it around Christmas, it's a great little film.

I really like Bill Murray. Usually. But then .. he usually has been in films that I liked...Groundhog Day, Ghostbusters, Tootsie ... GOOD movies.Scrooged is NOT a "good movie. It is a mish-mashed mess of "spoof", "re-telling", "modern take on" etc etc and for me it just did not work.It started out a little promising with John Forsythe in Marley Mode (he turns up again as a Fezziwig clone only with smarmy overtones). The scene where he puts Frank through the window is the one scene that was pretty impressive and actually funny.The ghosts were obnoxious. The Ghost of Christmas Present (Carol Kane) beating up Frank was overdone and pointless. Actually the whole film was.Other reviews have called it a "classic" and their favorite version of the Dicken's tale. IMO, they are sadly wrong.