Too short for its own good.

dimadick

Creating a movie which blends one of Dickens most famous creations,the bitter Ebenezer Scrooge,and one of Disney's more bitter and complicated characters,Scrooge McDuck,somebody could create a masterpiece.But obviously not Disney.Every bit of experience than turned those two men from ambitious,decent children to almost amoralistic businessmen is not mentioned in this movie.It seems overly rushed on most points. Its main redeaming quality is the scenes with the Ghost of Christmas Future.Pete looks absolutely menacing and the cemetery looks haunted. Some of the casting seems quite strange.Goofy as Marley?Does Goofy strike anybody as being able to be a succesful but merciless businessman?He is too much a fool to become one.And whose idea was it to use Willy the giant as the Ghost of Christmas Present?He is a simpleton who can't act serious in any situation. More effort,better casting of characters and greater length could this into one of Disney's more memorable movies.But it is quite forgetable.

score 8/10

dimadick 28 October 2001

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