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Very well executed

Highly Overrated But Still Good

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

There are certain stories that are universal and wherever Christmas is celebrated Charles Dickens's short story A Christmas Carol is read and told and loved. No need to talk of the story where Ebenezer Scrooge gets and attitude adjustment about Christmas and life itself.I've seen this story with Seymour Hicks, Reginald Owen, Alastair Sim, and George C. Scott playing the miserly Scrooge. But none of these had a musical score courtesy of Leslie Bricusse.They also didn't have Albert Finney who is looking like he's having one big old ball in the part. He's just delightful in the role and this has to be right in the top five film performances of his career.Bricusse wrote a full score and being this is a short story you wouldn't think that this being a short story there would be no room. Not so at all we got full numbers in a full score the best being Thank You Very Much which earned an Oscar nomination for Best Song along with three other nominations the film got in technical categories.The story of Ebenezer's Christmas metamorphosis will be told and watched for centuries. So thank you very much Charles Dickens.And thank you Albert Finney.

As a traditionalist, I didn't think I'd go for this musical version of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", but my low expectations were surpassed by this fine film. And almost fifty years after the fact I might add, since my viewing the other day was the first time I've seen it. The ghostly transitions were well done, with some having more of a horror element to them than prior treatments. Scrooge himself had a face that would stop a clock, which was all the more startling after seeing Albert Finney in the 'Christmas Past' portion of the story as a younger man. That was quite the makeup job! Surprisingly, the Christmas Present apparition (Kenneth More) might actually be the grandest of all the movie versions I've seen, which now total six by my best reckoning, including this one. The character exudes a marvelous appreciation for life that's infectious and really propels Ebenezer Scrooge in the right direction for reaffirming his humanity.As far as the musical numbers go, I thought they were well placed and supportive of the story's message. My initial assumption was that they had no place in an interpretation of the Dickens classic, but I've been converted otherwise. In that respect, I felt a little bit like Scrooge himself after his transformation, who came around to like life as much as I liked this picture.

While they did stick, for the most part, with the original language and story. There were one or too things that were changed that annoyed me a little. a) The ghost of Christmas present was supposed to be a giant robust man with a bare chest. b) Completely missed the line 'Come in and know me better man'. c) The ghost of Christmas present was supposed to age and wither towards the end of his visit. There were other things but those were the most annoying to me.I found the singing very Oliver like and and, in my opinion, completely pointless and annoying.Overall, I did enjoy the film but being a massive fan of the book maybe I'm a little over-critical I just can not see why people feel the need to alter/embellish what is one of the finest Christmas stories ever written.

So uplifting, funny and the most entertaining version of the Dickens classic. I fell in love with it as a child and I am so thrilled to see it on the rare occasions it is aired each Christmas season. I still discover something new I didn't recognize when I watched it previous times. Thank you AMC for airing it here this year! Albert Finney does a remarkable job as Ebenezer Scrooge and the cast and music in this production are brilliant. The humor in this story is great, you've just got to catch it in those thick British accents. I had never read or seen the classic versions of A Christmas Carol. When the movie was released, I was 12 years old. This one was the only one that held my interest as a child and I still find it the most entertaining and heartfelt today.