I grew up watching the cartoon, featuring one of the best Christmas songs ever, and I skipped the Jim Carrey live action version. Okay, I watched it once; never again. But this glorified rehash is just insulting and it makes me angry.
The movie spent way too much time on how annoying Pentatonix really is, and how weird it is to see Kenan Thompson voice a white guy, and way, way, WAY too much time planning the heist that the actual heist was a f*cking montage. The thirty-minute cartoon showed more of the heist than this 85-minute Freeform trash did.
I didn't notice this until recently that over the last ten years all the Dr. Seuss movies have been trying to relate the Whovians to children of today. Horton Hears a Who! features the mayor with a thousand children and one son; I was the only boy in my family for a long time. The Lorax shows a young boy living with a single parent and grandmother; not all families are the same. And The Grinch features Cindy Lou's mother single-parenting it with twin sons. I honestly don't think I've seen single-parenting in children's animated movies. No, Despicable Me does not count.
Let's talk about Cindy Lou for a minute, who's way more than two. She's got to be at least seven, right? No two-year-old can rig up a Rube Goldberg contraption to capture Santa Claus. Also, the whole "wishing for help for her single mother on Christmas" thing is super played out, and she goes to the village outcast to place her request.
That actually made me think of something. Except for this film and the Jim Carrey one, the Grinch never really interacts with the Whos until he returns their gifts in the end. So everyone has got to be really confused when this green bozo, dressed up like Santa, comes in and be like "I stole your Christmas." They should be like "Who are you, and what have you done to Santa?" Thinking about this film. I doubt anyone knew he existed until Pentatonix started following him. They may say hi to him, but do they really know who he is? He spends all his free time outside of Whoville voluntarily. I wouldn't be surprised if the Grinch is on Twitter ranting about nobody loving him and caring about him #incel #nosocialcontract.
The only thing this film got right was an honest reaction to things being missing on Christmas morning. It didn't make sense that the Whos would just come out and sing. There had to be some people who would be upset and/or angry that they had been robbed on Christmas. But, of course, it's a reminder that Christmas doesn't come a store, but it means something a little bit more. But when another reboot based on a classic children's book comes out, Christmas definitely comes from a store.
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Released on: November 9, 2018
Rating: PG
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Pharrell Williams, Rashida Jones, Cameron Seely, Kenan Thompson, Angela Lansbury
Directors: Scott Mosier, Yarrow Cheney
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 59%
IMDb Score: 6.3/10
The movie spent way too much time on how annoying Pentatonix really is, and how weird it is to see Kenan Thompson voice a white guy, and way, way, WAY too much time planning the heist that the actual heist was a f*cking montage. The thirty-minute cartoon showed more of the heist than this 85-minute Freeform trash did.
I didn't notice this until recently that over the last ten years all the Dr. Seuss movies have been trying to relate the Whovians to children of today. Horton Hears a Who! features the mayor with a thousand children and one son; I was the only boy in my family for a long time. The Lorax shows a young boy living with a single parent and grandmother; not all families are the same. And The Grinch features Cindy Lou's mother single-parenting it with twin sons. I honestly don't think I've seen single-parenting in children's animated movies. No, Despicable Me does not count.
Let's talk about Cindy Lou for a minute, who's way more than two. She's got to be at least seven, right? No two-year-old can rig up a Rube Goldberg contraption to capture Santa Claus. Also, the whole "wishing for help for her single mother on Christmas" thing is super played out, and she goes to the village outcast to place her request.
That actually made me think of something. Except for this film and the Jim Carrey one, the Grinch never really interacts with the Whos until he returns their gifts in the end. So everyone has got to be really confused when this green bozo, dressed up like Santa, comes in and be like "I stole your Christmas." They should be like "Who are you, and what have you done to Santa?" Thinking about this film. I doubt anyone knew he existed until Pentatonix started following him. They may say hi to him, but do they really know who he is? He spends all his free time outside of Whoville voluntarily. I wouldn't be surprised if the Grinch is on Twitter ranting about nobody loving him and caring about him #incel #nosocialcontract.
The only thing this film got right was an honest reaction to things being missing on Christmas morning. It didn't make sense that the Whos would just come out and sing. There had to be some people who would be upset and/or angry that they had been robbed on Christmas. But, of course, it's a reminder that Christmas doesn't come a store, but it means something a little bit more. But when another reboot based on a classic children's book comes out, Christmas definitely comes from a store.
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Released on: November 9, 2018
Rating: PG
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Pharrell Williams, Rashida Jones, Cameron Seely, Kenan Thompson, Angela Lansbury
Directors: Scott Mosier, Yarrow Cheney
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 59%
IMDb Score: 6.3/10
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