Purely coincidental tie-in to the holiday season. I'm up to C-H-R in Rob's server. Next is some anime series I think. I can't be 100% sure, since I was never a huge Dickens fan, but this seemed like a really faithful adaptation of the book. An old miser named Scrooge (Jim Carrey) is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve to show him what was (Jim Carrey), what is (Jim Carrey), and what will be (Jim Carrey) if he doesn't stop acting like a total douche to everybody on Christmas.
The whole thing is motion-capture animation (or mo-cap) because it was directed by Robert Zemeckis who was deep in his "mo-cap is totally the way of the future, you guys" stage. Some of the backgrounds are pretty but all of the faces are pure, uncut nightmare fuel. It's very much the Jim Carrey Show as well, with some random moments of Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, and Gary Oldman thrown in.
There are so many variants of this story to choose from, there really is no reason to pick this one. Do yourself (and your kids) a favor and find a different version.
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