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Bookmark this pageDr Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
Director: Ron Howard
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From Time Out Film Guide
Dr Seuss's squiggly sketches and early learning doggerel appear to have come straight off the top of his head. This Hollywood version captures precisely that endearing spirit of imaginative doodling, at least when Carrey's anti-hero is on screen. A shaggy, potbellied green yeti with an attitude problem, the Grinch lives in the rubbish dump and casts a baleful eye over the ersatz yuletide 'Who-bilation' of the rodent featured Whos in their suburban Shangri-La, Whoville. This toyshop grotto society is a caricature of consumerism, a town embodying such a level of superficiality that only a child, Cindy Lou, can see through it. She doesn't understand why the Grinch is excluded from the party, and even gets him nominated for 'Holiday Cheermeister'. Big mistake. Howard's film develops the story with ingenuity, subverting acceptable sentiment with lashings of sardonic wit. Smartly melding cartoon backdrops and kitsch carnivalesque production design, this cinematic candy floss honours the Seussian universe by satirising our own. And Carrey's comic tornado of a performance is a triumph.Author: TCh
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- Huggy said...
- Posted on Dec 25 2011 09:14 A great marriage of old, new, borrowed and (true) blue... an annual event for everyone
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- Stllear work there everyo said...
- Posted on Dec 19 2011 08:37 Stllear work there everyone. I'll keep on reading.
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Cast & crew
Director: Ron Howard
Producer: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard
Cast: Jim Carrey, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Bill Irwin, Molly Shannon, Clint Howard, Taylor Momsen, Anthony Hopkins, Anthony Hopkins full cast
Duration: 105 mins
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