Reviews

I watch this every year with Christmas. After watching it fourteen times, it still gives me the chills. It is a very dark and frightening masterpiece and I think everyone should have seen this one at least once in his/her life. George C. Scott is magnificent as Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas Future is frightening as hell! Don't show this to young children!

I saw this at an amusement park in the Netherlands in 1988. After I watched it, I asked myself: "Why would anyone want to make a movie like this?" Face it, it is not funny and the boys are making you feel sick when they perform their "Fat is fun" slapstick. I would not recommend this film to anyone. Quite frankly, it is a waste of time and money.

The basic idea of this film, reliving the same boring holiday over and over again, already had a lot of potential. But the actual presentation of it couldn't possibly be done better. And with that it is a fact that any other movies trying to work out this theme are bound to fail hopelessly, as all the genuinely funny stuff about it already has been done in this one. If you've seen Clean Slate with Dana Carvey, you know what I'm talking about.

Bill Murray is hysterical, and it is too bad that he rarely appears in a bullseye hit like this one. The rest of the film: the supporting cast, the music, the styling, everything hits the nail right on the head. It is my favorite comedy and I can watch it as often as I want and still I won't get tired of it!