Recently Disney Dreaming made it’s way to the local IMAX theater to see Walt Disney Pictures “A Christmas Carol” starring funny man comedian Jim Carrey as the voice for the worlds foremost authority on being grumpy, Ebenezer Scrooge.

Creatively the movie is a visual masterpiece, that at points makes you wonder if you’re actually watching a computer animated movie because everything looks so life-like. The creative team behind “A Christmas Carol” really understood what it takes to make animated characters look very visually appealing. Obviously the science to making animated movies is not perfected to be literally life-like but they had us fooled with certain scenes in the movie.

As for the content of the movie itself, we would have to say that it was a rather dark and sinister look into the classic story of Ebenezer Scrooge being visited by three ghosts, but perhaps in a good way. At times we found it to be scary and creepy, almost like a movie you would watch on Halloween night for a good scare, but you realize as you’re watching the movie that the scary parts need to be scary and creepy to make the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge from a heartless person who only cares about himself to the thoughtful and caring person he becomes at the end of the movie. Very often in movies that are directed towards a younger audience, as we think the story of “A Christmas Carol” is truly aimed towards, these kinds of real life situations of a bad person becoming good are dumbed down so that they don’t frighten children and push movie goers away from theaters. This movie makes no apologies toward this fact and almost encourages Mr. Scrooge to be in situations that would generally make even the hardest of hearts cower in despair at the situations they were placed in by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

The movie isn’t scary the entire time and does have it’s share of kind moments mixed with a very interesting plot set fourth by the movie’s writer and director Robert Zemeckis which is based off of the popular novel by Charles Dickens. The movie is also featured in Disney 3D, which really engages you right from the opening title sequence to the end of the film. In our theater everybody gave a standing applause at the end of the movie and we truly felt it was much deserved.

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