My kids and I thought the Polar Express movie was creepy, though we rather liked the book. If the previews and trailer are any indication, A Christmas Carol is getting a similar Uncanny Valley treatment from Zemeckis. Ugh. Jim Carrey already looks vaguely like a CGI character at the best of times.

I think I'll skip this and read the book.

Anything...Film., Video etc. featuring Jim Carrey should be burned, erased and deleted from the Earth...Especially Carrey himself.

Seriously, the previews I've seen were so jaw-droppingly awful that I cannot believe anyone signed off on the final renderings from the server farm. Bugs Bunny cartoons have more life and verve than this crapola. He-Man cartoons, for God's sake.

When you have a movie like District 9 doing more believable motion capture aliens for a fraction of the cost, you'd better take a good long hard look at the technology you're flogging. If I want to see mid-90's polygoned animation I'll just go find a GameCube on eBay.

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind justifies Carrey's whole career. He's truly great in that movie.

Due to a vision defect, I can't "see" 3D movies, so I hope they do in fact turn out to be a fad, since I can watch 2D flicks just fine. Movies sure will get annoying if they all feature shots of fingers POINTING RIGHT AT ME all the damn time.

I was glad to see a shout out to the Muppet Christmas Carol. We watch it every Christmas eve, and it's my favorite adaptation to date of Dickens' tale.

Yes, yes and yes! Warner Bros. could have done this in the late 40's if Disney had let them. We are left with nothing but leaves falling from skeletal trees... Please stop Zemeckis before he decides that Shakespeare or Chaucer is next up for his dead-eyed version of the classics...

I've seen the movie and the quality of the rendering is actually quite impressive. Its of course a bit uneven, but generally speaking the movie looks lush and gorgeous and as impressive as any Pixar movie . You can argue your case that motion capture performaces are not your cup of tea, but you cant make the argument that this movie does not impress when seen on the big screen. If you try, you don't know what your talking about and you don't know the technology.

Motion capture is here to stay. Animation is the skill of bringing life to inanimate objects. When technology gets to the point of allowing actors, i.e professional performers, to give life to their own characters, rather then simply voicing a character and having a 32 year old maya monkey do his best to mimic the vocal performance, well isn't that an improvement?

Just to stress what others are saying: the problem isn't motion capture; it's the Uncanny Valley, which every animator and every reviewer of animation should know about.

The whole thing seems to be constructed around how many ways to play up immersion into depth of field and velocity.

It appears to be 90 minutes of something like Count Floyd moving in and out on the camera in Monster Horror Chiller Theatre.

Alastair Sim, 1951, black and white. Why even try to remake perfection? Isn't it enough that he ruined The Grinch already?

Still waiting for Dr. Tongue's 3-D House of Stewardesses...

I believe Jim Carrey was sent to earth to star in truly dreadful remakes of some of the best loved classics. A 2 hour version of the 24 minute version of the Grinch was more than I could take. This looked just as painful.

That would be awesome. Plus Scrooge should be a teen vampire lesbian with a werewolf love interest.

Wasn't Carrey satisfied with ruining one immortal Christmas story of greed and generosity? (Hello, Grinch. Goodbye, fond childhood memories of the book/animated version.)

This is another case of useless money-grubbing. There are already several excellent film versions of this story in existence (ME Williams is not wrong when she points out the Muppet rendition as one of them). There is no need to make some ridiculous CGI motion capture whatever whatever stupid version of it.

Minor correction. If you want mid-90s, you're going to have to look for an N64, not a GameCube, which was released in 2001.

The animation is too close to live action, like that Beowolf (?) movie with an animated Angelina Jolie and other recognizeable actors. It's the animated version of the creepout you get at a wax museum. I'd raher they had done it in live action with one Jim Cary, or better yet, no Jim Cary at all. A Christmas Carol is slight story about a person changing. You have to believe in it emotionally to buy the change. A good live actor can pull that off. For an animated character to make that work, there has to be enough stylization for the viewer to be engaged and fill in the blanks. When the animation is this lifelike, your brain starts to focus on what's NOT real about it and you emotionally disengage.

I'll take the old time Mr. Magoo version anytime.

Just read Roger Ebert's critique in today's newspaper: he gives it 4 stars out of 4. Not that his word is the last, but I was really looking forward to seeing the movie because of his review. Now, not so much.

That's who should do this as an animated film, Hayao Miyazaki. By The Maker, that would be the best two and a half hours of my life! I will now go wait in the darkness until my dream comes true.

Oh, and keep Jim Carey and his loopy soul mate as far away from this as possible. Get Albert Finney, in a knod to the best version of the story I've ever seen, to voice Scrooge. Magnificent!