Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3528 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-11-05
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 87 minutes

DVD Description
Ever since that Christmas Eve seven years ago when Ebenezer Scrooge (Kelsey Grammer, Frasier) buried his longtime friend and business partner, Jacob Marley (Jason Alexander, Seinfeld), Scrooge's melancholy has settled into an eternal bitterness toward the holidays and his fellow man. His loyal but meek clerk, Bob Cratchit (Edward Gower), is the constant target of his cruelty and even Scrooge's own nephew inspires in his uncle no Christmas sentiment warmer than "Bah! Humbug!"

But this Christmas Eve is startlingly different. Scrooge has company, the ghost of his old partner has arrived to warn him of the consequences of the suffering he has caused and to extend an invitation for redemption.

Charles Dickens's classic story of the Christmas spirit that still lives within embittered Ebenezer Scrooge is magically transformed into a musical event featuring a visitation of spirits from past, present, and future.

Featuring memorable songs from Oscar nominee & Tony winner Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime, Anastasia) and Alan Menken, the Oscar-winning composer of Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin.

Starring: Kelsey Grammer (Frasier), Jason Alexander (Seinfeld), Jane Krakowski (Ally McBeal) and Jennifer Love Hewitt (Garfield, Party of Five).

Synopsis
A musical adaptation of the book by Charles Dickens about an old miser called 'Scrooge', who is visited by the ghosts of his old partners and the ghosts of 'Christmas Past, Present and Future', in the hope that he will change his ways.

Customer Reviews

Avoid this like the plague
This has got to be one of the worst films that I have ever seen. I am not even sure that I can bear to watch Kelsey Grammer in Frasier any more and that is one of my all time favourites. This is really Hollywood at its schmutziest, sugary worst. Think Oliver crossed with the Waltons but with even worse acting and music. The same phoney Cockney accents, a London so spruce and perfect that even today Londoner's wouldn't recognise it, let alone an inhabitant from the 19th Century East End. Dickens must be spinning in his grave!

Terrible adaptation of a wonderful story - Bah Humbug!
My Christmas wouldn't be complete without watching "A Christmas Carol" but this adaptation is one of the worst I have seen. I'm very fond of Kelsey Grammer but his acting here is just so hammed up and wooden and the rest of the cast are no better. Jason Alexander seemed totally miscast and the children were wooden and disappointing without exception. The whole thing looks like an amateur dramatics production filmed on flimsy sets at your local theatre - and everywhere seems to be within two steps of where the characters are as if the whole thing was filmed on a tiny set. Some of the songs weren't bad but overall I just didn't think it worked as a musical (only the Muppets could pull that off). There was also just too much singing (perhaps an unfair criticism of a musical..) but some of the songs seemed pointless and unremarkable. There was nothing that appealed to me about this production, none of the characters were sympathetic and I just thought it had no heart. I was completely unmoved by it.

OK But there is better
This version is pretty good if you love musicals, if not don't bother, although Kelsey Grammer plays a reasonable good part, the story relies to much on the music and not enough on the story. If you want a real good Scrooge, them go for Alastair Sim, The definative and the best Scrooge by a good mile, but saying this, if you want a more up to date version of the Christmas Carol, George C Scott and Patrick Stewart also make a convincing Scrooge.