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32 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA marvelous and touching yuletide toy of a movie.
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAn exhilarating visual experience and proves for the third time he's (Zemeck) is one of the few directors who knows what he's doing with 3-D.
- 80Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichThe unspoken theme underlying Dickens’s prose--that the money-grubbing Ebenezer is conversing with semblances of his own self--finds near-perfect cinematic expression through Carrey’s efforts.
- 63Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJim Carrey is good as Scrooge. There’s surprisingly little shtick in his performance.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttZemeckis' A Christmas Carol is, in its essence, a product reel, a showy, exuberant demonstration of the glories of motion capture, computer animation and 3D technology. On that level, it's a wow. On any emotional level, it's as cold as Marley's Ghost.
- 50VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyShortchanging traditional animation by literalizing it while robbing actors of their full range of facial expressiveness, the performance-capture technique favored by director Robert Zemeckis looks more than ever like the emperor's new clothes in Disney's A Christmas Carol.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceA Christmas Carol is a whiz-bang 3-D thrill-ride with all the emotional satisfaction squeezed out of it.
- 50St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsSt. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsIt's eerie rather than wondrous.
- 50Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago ReaderJ.R. JonesZemeckis captures all the story’s terror, but its pathos has always been the real challenge, and it mostly eludes him.
- 40Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenEither you cotton to Zemeckis’ motion-capture aesthetic or you don’t: To me, it seems like an awful lot of effort for an insignificant payoff. But it appears that the filmmaker is stuck on the technique – at least until holographic movie technology comes along.