I got around going to my local theatre to see the latest version of Chucky D's wonderful yarn, A Christmas Carol, and was somewhat disappointed in the anticipated experience. Granted, I did not have the 3-D bells and whistles movie house extravaganza in which to see my all time favourite Christmas story. However, I did enjoy the amazing computer generated eye-candy. Marley and the three others were just brilliant to gaze at. I did not get emotionally moved by the story though. No warming of the cockles of my heart by so much great dialogue spoken by these computer created beings. Give me any of the older movie versions for getting the uplifting glow of the tale itself, this effort unfortunately left me cold. I'll probably view it again when it comes out on dvd though, just to savour some of the immortal lines of Charles Dickens sounding great by Jim Carrey and Gary Oldman. Maybe there's a compact disc reading of the story or screenplay.
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