Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Review of "A Christmas Carol"
3.5 out of 4 stars
Let me start off by saying that I love A Christmas Carol. It's one of those stories that I'll never get tired of. I was really excited when I heard that Jim Carrey was going to be voicing Scrooge in the animated feature. I'm not a Jim Carrey fan, but he does well in animated features where he has less freedom to make an ass of himself.
What I LOVED:
1) It stayed true to Dicken's original text, almost verbatim.
2) The MUSIC. I love that they didn't shy away from Christian Christmas Carols. So often movies tread lightly on these things, and I'm thrilled that they didn't secularize this. The music is outstanding.
3) The visual effects are great! I had never seen a 3-D movie in a movie theater before, so I was skeptical at first. The whole recreation of Victorian London, the weather effects, the "flying effects..." all really cool, and serve to effectively immerse the viewers in the story. I wonder how well this will be achieved on home television sets, or if they're releasing a non 3-D version for home use. This fear makes me strongly encourage you to see the movie in the theater, because I feel the 3-D aspect is most of the fun.
What you need to know:
And I mean this sincerely- this is the spookiest Christmas Carol I have ever seen, especially added by the 3-D work they've done. I wouldn't dare bring my 9 year old niece to this movie. I read a review on this movie that hit it right on the money: they stretched the PG rating as far as it would go. The very first scene in the movie - the very first thing you see - is the face of Jacob Marley's corpse. So please use discretion when bringing your kids.
Re: Review of "A Christmas Carol"
Thanks for the heads up on the spookiness of the movie. We took my nieces to see Wall-E awhile back and the youngest wanted to leave cause the music got too intense...she is also afraid of Disney on Ice, so I'm thinking we'll pass on this movie.
I'm excited to go, it looked good from the previews.