The Grinch

Makes no good argument for its existence. Go watch the original cartoon again instead.

Well there must've been some magic / in that old silk hat they found / for when they put it on my head / I oh this isn't a Dr Seuss rhyme. This was pretty good, I am an idiot sucker for anything with a cute cartoon weiner dog doing butler stuff , mine can sometimes chew on a wall or destroy slippers. I HAVE A SLIPPER BUDGET. More like Dr. Seuss' "PapaWho went out for WhoSmokes Over a Year Ago" Mr Grinch rap was atrocious, but that's what happens when you waited too long for Leonard Cohen.

For a wholly unnecessary endeavor, this is done as well as you could ask for. Better than the live action version by a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole.

I hate Illumination. They're the worst, with their annoyingly below average movies, awful tone, music and script choices and lowest common denominator humor. This is the same. How can I help that it has the most adorablyest little kid character I've ever seen - actually the protagonist of this film - who teaches both the Grinch and I to be just a little less cynical. My heart, eyes and tearducts may have briefly welled up to thrice their size. Subpar but lovely. I'd watch a Cindy Lou franchise.

If the rest of the film was as good as the snow effects this would be truly special. It’s festive and inoffensive enough for me to cut it some slack, but for whatever reason Illumination looked at the original material and decided ‘we probably should simply take out all the unique and interesting bits!’ Those snow effects tho....

The theater I saw this in was half full, people laughed at all the silly little gags and whatnot, but the only time I laughed out loud, which was when Grinch merrily started singing "Dashing through the snow" as he was stealing X-mas, the whole theater fell silent, and I ended up being the dork. Seriously, wtf guys?

The bad: This is just the original TV special blown up and dragged out just long enough to make it feature length. The good: It's beautiful, provided plenty of laughs, and I really appreciated Cindy Lou as a character my kids could look up to. The in-between: I like Cumberbatch's Grinch voice, but I think he would have been more effective with his natural accent.

Sumptuous visuals, great Christmas feel, and limited demand for actual investment means The Grinch may enter my rotation as a movie for the background of holiday get togethers. Pleasant, pretty, non-essential

{{ CHRISTMAS MOVIE MARATHON - DAY 7 }} I'll probably get slack for this, but this is the best iteration of the Grinch story! Better than the 1966 version...yeah I said it! I was never a big fan of Dr. Seuss, so it's a low bar to clear here. The town looked amazing, the colours popped, and you could actually feel the Christmas spirit flowing through Who-ville. The Grinch and Max were endearing, even while up to no good. Lose Pharrell and the trap Xmas songs and this gets a higher score.

The Grinch (2018) was all too sweet and adorable. Not a touch of nastiness about him. Even his crooked ways was cleaned up too much for anything more than a sweet and charming comedy, just like all main stream animation films being made these days. Good fun it was, but I wouldn't have minded an extra dimension to the stories and characters.

Suffers from the same thing as other feature-length versions: a brief story is stretched-out a little too far, and the main charm of its origin (Dr Suess' wordcraft) is therefore diluted. That said, there is some decent voicework, some funny moments and some very impressive bits of animation. The bairns liked it. Full disclosure: I was a bit hungover and nodded off for a few minutes, so I've boosted my score just in case I missed some gold.

The most interesting thing about this movie is the inexplicable casting of Angela Lansbury as a one-off incidental character with one scene and maybe three lines. The new approach to the Max/Grinch relationship would be admirable if it had amounted to anything at all.

Illumination's Grinch suffers from the problem of just not being Seussian enough. Much of the charm of the original story and even the live-action adaptation are lost in this version. The Grinch is a less relatable character, the story is overlong and unnecessary in more than a few parts, and the filler is less interesting. My least favorite version of this story... by a longshot.

What makes the original great is where this one is lacking. One wonders why they were adapting Dr. Seuss at all beyond the name recognition. Cumberbatch is more like a mildly irritated co-worker who needs a vacation. They cut the already short classic tune in half and butchered what little remained. Pharrell Williams's sparse narration will put you to sleep. The commendable aspects are the algorithms for fur and a bit more squash and stretch in the animation than a lot of CGI films bother to do.

Some funny scenes, but as with the Ron Howard adaptation it suffers because there isn't much to adapt. The entire plot can be summed up in three sentences, so the rest is filler (In the book the filler was mostly cute rhymes and wordplay). I enjoyed the family invented as protagonists for this version of the film and the plot surrounding them, but even after adding that there was too much empty space to fill up by the film creators, and they end up with an awkwardly paced mess.

It is fine. It also made a ton of money, so what do I know?

Does some things better than Ron Howard's Grinch and some things not as well. The comparison probably isn't fair to the film, but there you have it. At this point in the remake game, one would hope for it to feel a little less uninspired. Illumination Entertainment manages to work in their form of comedy well and it makes for a funny and, at times, heartwarming film. Boris Karloff is still the GOAT.

So, The Grinch is supposed to have a certain deep timbre, right? I thought that was why they cast Benedict Cumberbatch in the first place. But then they have Cumberbatch put on this weird nasal voice that doesn't sound like him at all? I guess first hearing the Grinch was when I checked out of this one.

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Slight and very enjoyable. Mr. Bricklebaum steals the show.

The decently enjoyable lightheartedness of the first two acts (pleasant animation and voicework provide some chuckle-worthy gags and fun sequences) grows by three sizes in the third as the Grinch's redemption arc is completed with a refreshing and poignant childlike straight-forwardness ("It was me. I stole your Christmas. I stole it because I thought it would fix something from the past. But it didn't"). Doesn't break any new ground but it sure broke my tear ducts wide open in the end.

3

Even with the stunning visuals and great animation, Illumination's The Grinch can't stand up with generic jokes and bland humor.

Cute character design. Didn't get the point of this remake though...doesn't do anything new or exciting or different. Fav scene: Grinch getting ready for his day.

Enjoyable and colourful version of Seuss' story is inevitably overlong and overextended (even at a brisk 85 minutes), but some cute character work (Max the dog is as an adorable movie canine as there ever has been!) and a genuinely heart-wrenching finale make for a cheerful diversion. Cumberbatch makes less of an impression than you might expect, though Williams does an excellent job as narrator and Lansbury's dulcet tones are always a joy (even oddly truncated!)

An empty cash grab with almost no redeeming qualities except a cute animated dog.

As someone has noted already, the snow animation was ridiculously good and lifelike, but that's about the only thing coming to mind a couple of days after watching it.

This movie was waste of my time and I almost died of boredom in the cinema. To make things worse I was also hungover. Bad.

I think this is the worst of Cumberbatch's work.

I don't like it as much as the original cartoon but I love the Grinch in all forms

There's a couple of things in this adaptation I liked: Max the Dog was really cute, the animation and visual style looked nice and the actual Christmas-stealing montage was well-done, but it doesn't do enough to differentiate itself from the far-superior and far more charming 1966 animated version to justify its existence.

Ally watched at work. Just an ugly, ugly movie.

A thematic mess, but it is cute.

The movie was sooo bland and boring, the Grinch was more pathetic than villainous. This makes the Jim Carrey film look good. *Much better on a second watch.

cute enough, funny gags, good animation, beautiful town and interior designs. the new reindeer character was cute. dog should've both been cuter and abused more, that was a cornerstone of the original. also original grinch was more cartoonishly grumpy and evil, while this one seems halfway nice already.

[Use this movie to entertain kids] The original Grinch animation has a bunch of elements that make it so memorable: whymsical rhymes, flamboyant characters, catchy songs, etc. If you take all that out, keep the core story, add a bunch of filler characters, pad it out to feature-film length, and you come out with this. The animation is fantastic, the story isn't terrible, but there's not a whole lot there. It's good if you're style of parenting is to sit your kid in front of the screen fo

W3E1P0S1V1M1A1R1. Fine, but very middling.

The latest adaptation of the beloved Christmas special is predictably a disappointment.

Absolutely horrid animation but especially compared to the OG it’s just so lifeless. It’s such a modern version of what people assume is good animation. Having Benedict Cumberbatch instead of Boris Karloff is just like come on. At least the Carey version of it had some sense of pathos and set design. The tunes were good tho.

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Remaking a great movie is a bad idea. You'll never surpass the original.

Pretty nice guy, that Grinch. Unlike the weird old guy I watched this with, that mistakenly thought it was a date. In retrospect, this movie is grody gross.

It's an okay kids Christmas movie, but not that great. The Grinch isn't super grinchy, and more just lonely. It lacks the whimsy of the more accurate Seuss TV movie and the wackiness of the Jim Carey version. As I said it's okay, it's even pretty funny at times, but it just felt a bit lacking as far as retelling the Grinch story.

Christmas filmlerin animasyonu. Bu sefer Noel sevmeyen Grinch'in animasyonunu izliyoruz. Bütün öyküyü iyi bir şekilde anlatan, karakter arasında yakınlığı dengede tutan bir film. Tüketim çılgınlığını da değinilmiş. Christmas adında yapılan saçmalıkların göze sokan bir film. Yine de eğlenceli. Özellikle arkadaşlık ve dostluk vurgusu iyi işlenmiş. Noel baba yerine grinch'i gönderdik.

Not bad, just doesn't add anything significant to the story of the Grinch to justify its existence. May be fun to put on in the background around Christmas.

The perfect family Christmas movie and reimagining of the classic Dr. Seuss tale.

The cast do good voice work here in this movie. However you should should just watch the classic cartoon or read the book instead of this movie.

okay movie

The best Christmas movie. Jim Carey absolutely killed the roll.

The song in the end credits of this children's film that drops a barely concealed f-word basically sums up where we're at with this film. (25 days in a month, 25 days ain't enough where I don't give a ___).

Yeesh. That didn't look or feel like the Grinch in anyway. Just another high value animation that lacks character development and a real plotline to keep both children and adults invested. It could have been way better and way more in tune with reality in order to create a lasting impression and a new Grinch story for another generation.

funny movie

Charming, with the animation given enough of a Seussian sprinkle.

One of the driest, most empty kids movies I've ever seen. There is no personality to any of the characters or lines, and the original 30min story is dragged out so much. It also sucks out any Seuss-like lyrical eccentrities, there's literally nothing enjoyable about the movie except they made the dog cute.