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Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Bill Irwin, Molly Shannon, Clint Howard.
Ron Howard has done some great work and made some of my favorite films, but this isn’t one of them. Dr. Seuss has a great track record for entertaining ankle biters, but a poor record when his work is used for a film. The story here is weak and the jokes are mostly aimed at adults and mostly miss their mark. Carrey is made up to look like a green cast member from Planet of the Apes and the rest of the cast is just made to look slightly odd. This might work if it were funny, but it just ain’t.
Jim Carrey is the title character who is the town grump in a town, made up of funny looking people called Whos, that loves Christmas more than any other town. They are scurrying about on their business of preparing for the big day, when a little Who, named Cindy Lou Who (Taylor Momsen, who is very good here), decides that its not nice that the poor anti-social Grinch be left out of all the joyous festivities. Including him doesn’t really work that well either, unfortunately. Nice thought, though. Like this movie; Nice thought, but it just didn’t work.
The Grinch seem to get played on TV every year. Why? I think Hollywood really needs to make a few more good Christmas movies so crappy ones like this can be forever shuffled to the back shelves of giant video stores where they can be found by the few that enjoy them and ignored by the rest of us.
