Disneys Christmas Carol (Blu-ray) (2009)

Editor's Note Director Robert Zemeckis (THE POLAR EXPRESS) continues to work his holiday magic with A CHRISTMAS CAROL. This 3-D adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic will use the motion capture technology previously seen in the filmmaker's BEOWULF.

	Bob Hoskins
	Jim Carrey
	Gary Oldman
	Fionnula Flanagan
	Cary Elwes
	Robin Wright
	Colin Firth
	Steve Starkey - Producer
	Charles Dickens - Source Writer
	Robert Zemeckis - Producer
	Jack Rapke - Producer
	Robert Zemeckis - Screenwriter
	Robert Zemeckis - Director

Chicago Sun-Times
4 stars out of 4 -- "DISNEY'S A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Robert Zemeckis is an exhilarating visual experience and proves for the third time he's one of the few directors who knows what he's doing with 3-D." 11/05/2009

Box Office
4 stars out of 5 -- "Serving up a great treat for the holidays, the director has brought this Charles Dickens classic to such vivid life that in some ways you feel like you are experiencing it for the first time." 11/03/2009

New York Times
"[S]hiny seasonal entertainment....It sticks close to some of the sturdy virtues of the source material." 11/06/2009

Movieline
"As a surface display of cutting-edge technical wizardry, the endeavor succeeds." 11/06/2009

Entertainment Weekly
"Marvelous and touching....And the miracle is that it goes right back to the gilded Victorian spirit of those black-and-white films of yore." -- Grade: A 11/13/2009

Chicago Sun-Times
Included in Chicago Sun-Times's "The Ten Best Animated Films Of 2009" -- "[Zemeckis] creates a fantastical vision of the familiar Dickens tale." 12/24/2009

Total Film
3 stars out of 5 -- "The world's a treat...an icy Victorian London smothered in fog and warmed by fires and flickering lamplight." 12/01/2010

Premiere
3 stars out of 4 -- "A faithful retelling of Charles Dickens' classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge through director Robert Zemeckis' love of motion capture film-making technology....It definitely adds to the 160-year-old story of redemption..." 11/16/2010