Best "A Christmas Carol" movie?

[Al_The_Strange]

I see the Patrick Stewart version as the best adaptation of the story.

The Jim Carrey CGI-animated one struck me as the most entertaining.

The Alistair Sim version is the classiest.

Last year, I saw a made-for-TV version 1954 version, which must be the most unintentionally hilarious version I know of.

The musical with Albert Finney is my favorite musical version.

The Bill Murray version is my favorite non-traditional adaptation of the story.

Hope all that helps.

[dcowboy7]

Jim carrey but must watch in 3D.

[punkguy03]

I was not a fan of the cgi Jim Carrey movie. They left out some scenes that are usually in the others. A Tiny Tim scene comes to mind, however I cannot recall the exact scene.

I prefer the Alistair Sim version and George C. Scott version, both are very classy and great acting.

[Rambaldi47]

I absolutely love Mickey's Christmas Carol. It just takes me right back to my childhood. My only complaint is that it's too short. If only it got to be a full-length film!

Another childhood favorite is the Jetson's Christmas Carol where Spacely plays Scrooge.

[Phil92]

The Muppet Christmas Carol.

[Berek]

I'm glad someone else mentioned Patrick Stewart's version. It's amazing.

Mickey's Christmas Carol is very well done but too short.

I loved The Muppet Christmas Carol and the newer one with Jim Carrey.

[dcowboy7]

The problem to me with picard is that hes bald.

I need scrooge to have that scraggly grey hair.

[MarkWM]

Originally Posted by Berek

I'm glad someone else mentioned Patrick Stewart's version. It's amazing.

Mickey's Christmas Carol is very well done but too short.

I loved The Muppet Christmas Carol and the newer one with Jim Carrey.

I'd have to go with the Patrick Stewart version. He owns the role.

[hotFstop]

Mr. Magoo's is the way to go!

[Nissen]

What, no love for the Barbie animated version???!!!
(I have three daughters).

The Muppet version also gets a lot of play around my house.

I've also heard good things about the Richard Williams' Animated TV Special, but have not seen it.

This is a story that never gets old, you just see new things in it as your life advances. I was about 35 before I could identify with Scrooge the character. By the time I'm 80 I'll probably BE Scrooge

[Livelong420]

Muppets for the win! Jim Carrey version was a view once and never again for me (and I love Jim).

[khan1670]

The Alistair Sim is my favorite by far, but the George C Scott version is pretty good too.

I'm sorry, I just don't get how anyone can even mention Scrooged, it's just awful and painful to watch.

[Gaius Marius]

I like the Patrick Stewart version the best.

Muppet and Mickey's are good as well, though!

And Scrooged is great for an unconventional version of the story.

[Johnny Blu]

Mickey's Christmas Carol was always my favorite as a kid. That same sentiment remains the same today, but now I can enoy watching it with my two children.

As far as Blu Ray is concerned, it has to be Jim Carrey's version. The cgi is simply incredible. If I ever do buy a 3D TV, this will most likely be the first movie that I watch.

[duggie walker]

I like most versions of this classic - especially The Muppets - but my favourite (perhaps because it was the first I saw) is this classic 1971 animated version by Richard Williams, in which Scrooge is also voiced by Alastair Sim. I'd love to see this get a proper release :

A Christmas Carol (1/3) - YouTube

I'd also point you to the BBC version starring Michael Hordern, which is typically low budget but very atmospheric:

A Christmas Carol (1)- Patricia Quinn & Michael Hordern - YouTube

[TLeeTx2012]

Originally Posted by honestjohn

favorite of all time ... (b&w)

+1

[Moviefan1203]

I personally prefer the '84 version with George C. Scott. Scott is perfectly cast and puts in a hell of a performance. It's a pretty darn good blu-ray as well!

[Trogdor2010]

I actually thought the 2009 Zemeckis was a terrible adaption, half the movie was Scrooge running around aimlessly, way too much distracting slapstick even going as far as Scrooge surfboarding? (link please)

Ironically it is the most visually exciting, faithful and even powerful of it's adaptions, conveying much of Dicken's vision (like the end of Christmas Present's warning), and even including scenes largely forgotten in most adaptions (such as his uncle's backstory, he wasn't simply raised rich). How come it can convey such power, and imagination from the novel and become such a misguided, redundant mess?

I have to say the Muppet Christmas Carol is my personal favorite, but It's not a terribly faithful adaption.

[Falaskan]

Aspects of George C Scott's version and A Muppet Christmas Carol!

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by dcowboy7

The problem to me with picard is that hes bald.
I need scrooge to have that scraggly grey hair.

He's also too Capt.-Picard dictatorial:
In the scene with Marley, Stewart doesn't come off as the least bit scared of seeing a ghostly apparition in his room--which even George C. Scott managed to be--and talks down to Marley as if he's trying to talk a friend out of buying a car. ("Ja-cob, you were always a good man of business...")

Robert Halmi Hallmark series can be either very good (like Gulliver or the Odyssey) or very bad (like Merlin), but never ever very deep, and most of the stuff that was sent to TNT Network was in the aggressively-mediocre middle.
Stewart only co-x-produced the movie so he could cash in on his popular stage reading of the book, but reading Scrooge and playing him are two different things--As Dickensian misers go, he's more suited to iron-fisted Ralph Nickelby than Scrooge.