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The Muppet Christmas Carol

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Thankfully, the Muppets only adapted famous novels here and in MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND, before going back to telling orignal stories. However, the idea (which was fresh with MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL) to convert a famous novel to the zany humour and wacky acting of the Muppets reaps dividens in this movie.

Kermit the Frog is Bob Cratchit: put-upon employee of cold-hearted Ebenezer Scrooge. When Scrooge is visited by three ghosts (you know the story!) Gonzo and Rizzo the Rat provide superb narration that suprises by being both incredibly funny and spanning several types of humour: adult, farce, parody and more.

The keyword in the Muppet movies is entertainment. This is obviously not even worth comparing to the Alastair Sim SCROOGE or even Bill Murray's gem SCROOGED. It's the Muppets telling a story as they want to tell it: in their own magical way.

I loved this take off of the classic Christmas Carol.. They have some humor, plus there is a lot of drama in it too... When Love is Gone sequence has me crying each and every time. The Scenes with Tiny Tim also show just how precous that life really is... This is by far the best video to be put out from the Henson Company

This great video is an exception to the general rule that latterday Muppets films are not very good (c.f. Muppets Treasure Island, Muppets in Space, etc). Michael Caine is wonderful as nasty Scrooge (he should have got an Oscar nomination for his cheesy London accent in this, rather than for his cheesy American accent in The Cider House Rules). All the standard Muppet favorites are here, and Rizzo the Rat is particularly fine in this film. Very funny.

At age 13, the last movie you wanna see is a movie with Muppets in it, right? Wrong. I'm 13 years old, and A Muppets Christmas Carol is probably my second favorite movie- and I'm mature for my age. In fact, my whole homeroom loves it. It's pretty much like the book by Charles Dickins, but it has that Muppet twist to it. It's funny. It's captivating. You feel like Kermit (Bob Cratchit) when Tim dies-really sad. Rizzo the Rat, Miss Piggy (Mrs. Cratchit), and Gonzo (who plays Charles Dickins) make it comical. I throughly recommend this magical movie to everybody, regardless of age.

This movie touches every emotion in the human soul. The characters are so believable and life like from the mice bookkeepers working for Scrooge to the penguins at their annual Christmas skating party! The musical score by Paul Williams produced some of the most beautifuls songs ever! They are thought provoking and lovely to listen to. I would love to get the soundtrack because I enjoy the songs so much. "One more Sleep Til Christmas" is just precious as sung by Kermit. Michael Caine portrays the role of Scrooge in a magical and wonderfully extraordinary way. You can feel everything he did as he grew up(in Christmas Past) and evolved into the lonely and unhappy miser as an old man. I watch this several times a month and recommend it to anyone who believes in the magic of Christmas and who wants to bring out the child in them as only the muppets and Michael Caine can do. I love it! !

The Muppet's Cristmas Carol is a great holiday movie for the family. It is entertaining, yet not childly obnoxious. There is comedy on all levels for everybody to enjoy.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Brian does his father much kindness in this work. I wasn't aware Jim had died before the making of this film, so it takes on more significance. I'm buying a copy so that when I get down I'll watch and have my spirit lifted. Great job Brian.

This Muppet film was the first one made after Jim Henson died. I can still remember the reluctance I felt at seeing it because I was afraid that it would not live up to the past. However, I was pleasantly surprised and charmed by this wonderful and hilarious adaptation of the Christmas classic by Dickens. My two favorite characters, Gonzo and Rizzo, help keep the audience's interest by mixing classic narration with comic slapstick. Those two have the best chemistry in the film! Michael Caine is excellent as the embittered Scrooge, and I love the songs and the other Muppet creatures. Although I cannot help but watch it with a sad heart, I know that somewhere Henson is looking down on this Christmas Carol and smiling proudly.

Every year I pull out my copy of this movie and watch it, and every year I am reminded how much I love it and how wonderful it is. Even as I write this I'm watching it and starting to cry as something else touching happens in it. There is no better reminder of the wonder of Christmas than this wonderful, delightful, charming, splendid version of Dicken's classic tale. See it, no matter what. :...)

Charles Dickens' masterpiece "A Christmas Carol" has been endlessly dramatized, adapted, rewritten, parodied, musicalized, folded, spindled, and mutilated to the point that it has nearly become just a Yuletide ghost story. Oddly enough, THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL brings greater depth and humanity to the story than many recent versions. The story stays quite true to the original while allowing the Muppets to get laughs by staying true to their established characters. It might seem like a strange combination, yet it plays beautifully.Michael Caine makes an superb Scrooge. His performance is on target all the way through, as he subtly finds the hardness, cynical humor, pain, and ultimately, the joy for life that's within Scrooge. And he automatically accepts the Muppets as the various Dickens' characters, never letting on to the audience that it's all a charade.THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL is a curiosity, in a way, but it is also truely a treasure suitable for the whole family.