Scrooged.

I'm a big fan of Dicken's A Christmas Carol. In my family, it used to be a Christmas tradition that we would sit down and read it together in the month of December. At first it was just my mother reading to us, and then as we got older we all took turns. So I usually loved every version of A Christmas Carol that was ever made. Although generally, I like the traditional ones more, minus the Disney version in which Mickey is Bob Crachitt, love that and Disney characters aren't really all that "traditional." Although if you consider how old Mickey is these days, he might be crossing that line.

I'm not sure of how I feel about Scrooged though. I don't think it's quite the type of Christmas Carol movie I really enjoy, although I was rather distracted while watching it. I was writing and it was on TV so it had commercials and I was chatting with friends. So maybe I didn't give it enough of a chance. But I sort of feel that if I movie can't hold my attention...it's not really my fault and more the fault of the movie. Because there are some movies that I have a really hard time getting anything done at the same time as watching them because I get so into them.

It should have been amazing, as it has Bill Murry and Karen Allen, and I adore Ms. Karen Allen in surprising amounts. She's so adorable, with her smile and her giant eyes.

Overall the movie was enjoyable, but it didn't really put me in the Christmas spirit.

I did like this little gem at the end though: "We are the people we always hope we could be." Made me think of what I blogged about yesterday. Actually, his whole speech at the end was pretty good. Especially with the Claire, world, world, Claire.



She is so cute.

But if I'm looking for A Christmas Carol, I'll be sticking to my traditional one with everyone in period costumes.