Christmas Movie Review - Scrooged

By Rob Sullivan on December 13, 2008 1:29 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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I thought that since it was close to Christmas I'd review some of my all time favorite Christmas movies.

I have assembled a list of what I consider to be THE best Christmas movies and I will be reviewing them here.

So without further adieu, here is my first one - Scrooged.

Scrooged stars Bill Murray in this adaptation of the classic Christmas story "Scrooge."  Filmed in 1988 it modernizes the classic story where Bill Murray plays Frank Cross, a person who's more concerned with his career and making a name for himself than with Christmas.

It starts with him being visited by his old boss (who is now dead) telling him that he will be visited by 3 spirits - the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. Of course the ghosts are also updated.

The story is pretty much the same as Scrooge, so I'm not going to go through all the details.  But I want to talk about my favorite parts of this movie.


In particular, the ghost of Christmas present, played by Carol Kane.  She is my favorite of the 3 (although the future ghost, played by the Grim Reaper, is pretty cool).

She's my favorite because her way of doing things is, shall we say, physical.  She literally tries to knock sense into Murray's character.  It's the of the funniest things I've seen on the big screen.

This movie makes my list of all-time favorites because it takes a well known story, modernizes it and brings it into modern times, which allows a whole other generation to become familiar with the classic tale.

Now remember, this movie is 20 years old, so when you go rent it, remember that the hair and technology was pretty cool at the time.

I give this movie an A+

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