Director Robert Zemeckis and Scrooge himself, Jim Carrey, truly hit Dickens’s A Christmas Carol classic out of the ballpark with the newest and most advanced version of the film created. Combining some of the greatest and most detailed 3D graphics of this generation with the genuine, passionate, and accurate acting of all the characters, especially Scrooge, A Christmas Carol really modernizes the classic story told back in 1843 and brings it to life for all the fans of the novel and Christmas fanatics in general. After reading the book and now seeing the movie itself, there are very few things that Zemeckis leaves out of this fantastic film and really hits it home. The detail with which the three Ghosts of Christmas and Marley appear in the film matches, or even surpasses, the detail of Dickens gives the characters in the novel. …show more content…
The rosy cheeks of all the frigid people, the warm breaths of the characters floating into the brisk winter sky and slowly disappearing show the effort and detail put into the film unlike no other version of A Christmas Carol. The visuals of each of the Three Ghosts of Christmas are mind-blowing and portrayed down to the very last detail, whether it be the Ghost of Christmas Past’s fiery body zooming across the sky, The Ghost of Christmas Present’s deep voice, wiggly beard, and deteriorating look throughout the story, or the horrifying hand of the Ghost of Christmas Future. As a viewer, my imagination when reading the novel was brought to life by the movie. I was very pleased with how this movie was composed and executed, especially how I was able to follow the movie as I was recalling events in the