Customer Reviews

Disney's A Christmas Carol 3D (4-Disc Combo Pack) [3D Blu-ray + Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy]

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

I loved this whimsical take on a classic Christmas story. It is light hearted and a fun movie to watch with kids.

This is a great movie for the family. My kids ages 3 and 4, loved it. The CGI is fantastic, and it stays true to the story. I'd recommend it to anyone.

I am not a big fan of the story, A Christmas Carol. However this being Disney I wanted to see it. I was very pleased with it. I thought it was well told and on Blu-ray with a good surround sound system everyone will enjoy it.

One of the best versions of this story ever seen. The 3D effects are just a wonderful added touch and I rate the 3D top quality!

For the most part, a very impressive 3D experience. Overall I would say about 75% of the animation is great in 3D, especially the detailed close-up footage of Ebinezer and the flight scenes. The other 25% is made up of lack of detailing in some scenes, especially darker ones, and of course cross-talk/ghosting (which I only counted about 8 instances lasting about a second each, not bad really). It seemed in most of the really dark scenes (eg. when Ebinezer bends over at his front door and we see his back, and in several other dark scenes) the blacks and dark colors seem to bottom out and become very grainy and lacking in detail and color accuracy; The darkest blacks almost becoming shades of grey. On the other hand 80% of the blacks in the film are great and quite impressive, especially on plasma. Not sure what causes some of the scenes to be poor, but I can't wait to see more content in the very near future to compare. In particular, Avatar, which becomes available to Panasonic owners this month, is pretty heavy in black detail, it will be interesting to see how its handled there. Ahh yes, probably worth noting that I viewed A Christmas Carol on my 58" Panasonic VT25. Extremely impressive HDTV by the way; It handles motion and color accuracy better than any other HDTV I have seen next to the old Kuro Elite.

Story wise I will say this, certainly not a movie for young kids, will probably scare the living crap out of them. As a parent of two young girls, 4 & 6, I will not be letting them view this one. As for my enjoyment, the story was slow and nothing special really. This experience was more about seeing some great 3D.

Recommended to 3DTV owners.

This was not a good remake and we would not recommend it for viewing by children. It was souless, noisy and missed out the visit to Bob Crachets family and Tiny Tim only appearred at the very end. This was not one of Jim Carey's best movies and we were very dissappointed.Disney's A Christmas Carol - 1-Disc DVD

I loved this movie. Beautifully presented and goes a mile a minute. Worth every penny to add it to your collection of Christmas Carol movies.

I seen this movie in the theatre and was just as amazed by it as the majority of the people in the theatre who were around age 7-10 even though I'm in my late 20s. The 3D was amazing - it snowed around you, you had butterflies in your stomach from flying, etc. This is the traditional Christmas Carol story so it's nothing new. My favourite Christmas Carol is still Mickey's, but the 3D version made this a holiday classic!

There is a lot of talent displayed in this cgi masterpiece by Robert Zemeckis, and this hi-tech version of Christmas Carol looks fantastic on blu-ray. Jim Carrey is unrecognizable (both visually and verbally) as Scrooge, but he also plays several other roles in the film, as does Carey Elwes, Gary Oldman and Colin Firth. The film's artistic ingenuity combined with its technical capabilities have allowed for a more accurate interpretation of A Christmas Carol according to the director (and is as Dickens originally intended). Blu-ray extras include a featurette on motion capture, an interactive calendar, and a wonderful pic-in-pic commentary (with alternating viewing modes) of the entire acting process (complete with dots and all). This is a very creative and enjoyable version of a Christmas classic - and it's highly recommended.

I haven't seen this in movie theaters and was waiting for the dvd. I'm sure it was a great movie experience on a big screen. This movie is absolutely astonishing!! Production wise, visually stunning, the writing felt right,(they say that they took a lot of dialogue from the book. I beleive them). The cast was great, I always have an eye for Carry Elves! LOL I was happily surprise to see the name of Doug Chiang at the production design.(He's worked on the designs for Star Wars Episode I : The Phantom Menace!) Beautiful sets, beautiful clothes, wonderful animation and Motion Capture... it felt real and magical! 5 stars for Robert Zemeckis aka the director for Back to the Future trilogy and Polar Express!