A Christmas Carol is the 2009 film adaptation of the of the popular Christmas story written by Charles Dickenson. A Christmas Carol was both written and directed by Robert Zemeckis, and starrs Jim Carry and Gary Oldman. The movie starts out on Christmas Eve, with the old and bitter Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carry), resenting Christmas again and treating his workers like dogs. Later that night Scrooge is visited by an old and now deceased business partner Jacob Marley (Gary Oldman). Jacob tells Scrooge that he will be visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future (all also played by Jim Carry), and that if he doesn’t want to end up with the same fate as his friend, he will have to change his ways. Soon after Jacob departs, Scrooge is visited by the ghosts one by one. Each of the ghosts show him a reason to change his money hungry and bitter ways of life.
A Christmas Carol to me was an average movie. It wasn’t bad to me personally, but its not really the kind of movie I prefer. It’s a good movie for the holidays, but I think that it came out a little bit too early. I would recommend that you go see it if you like Christmas, but as a movie I think that you should wait a while until you feel like it. I would give this movie a six out of ten for great role playing by Jim Carry, but also for its basic plot. I’m not saying its bad movie but the movie itself was kind of predictable. If you see the movie you’ll know what I’m saying, and it might change your view on whether or not to see it. Other than that I encourage anyone who wants to see it to go watch it, especially if you if like to be reminded of the holiday spirit.
