The Grinch (2018)
A grumpy Grinch plots to ruin Christmas for the village of Whoville. (imdb)
Genres: Comedy, Family/Kids, Fantasy, Animation
Franchise: The Grinch
Directed By: Scott Mosier, Yarrow Cheney
Written By: Tommy Swerdlow, Michael LeSieur
Starring: Angela Lansbury, Rashida Jones, Kenan Thompson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Pharrell Williams, Cameron Seely
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The Grinch belongs to 4 collections
1. Based On A Book (public: moderated by Spunkie - 11 stars)
2. Directed collaboratively (public: moderated by djross - 2 stars)
3. Worldwide box office over $500,000,000 (public: moderated by djross - 2 stars)
4. IMAX (public: moderated by iceblox - 1 star)
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| Date | User | Rating | |
| Feb 22 | PiRX | 70 28% |
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| Feb 20 | UXX3 | 70 66% |
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| Feb 20 |  |
hotsake | 35 14% |
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The movie was sooo bland and boring, the Grinch was more pathetic than villainous. This makes the Jim Carrey film look good.
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| Feb 17 | CreationP | 85 42% |
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| Feb 14 |  |
navid.g | 70 30% |
| Feb 12 |  |
sacmersault | 70 47% |
| Feb 10 |  |
tk421dom | 65 45% |
| Feb 10 |  |
AAD101192 | 65 45% |
| Feb 10 |  |
ND Geek | 90 77% |
| Feb 09 |  |
metehan13 | 65 25% |
| Feb 09 | nickscv | 40 4% |
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| Feb 05 | mericsenyuz | 25 3% |
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| Feb 05 | harrietbody | 55 25% |
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buddhalou | 50 23% |
| Feb 04 |  |
ibrahimbars | 64 35% |
| Feb 03 | Blizz | 85 52% |
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| Feb 03 | Litigator | 50 37% |
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| Feb 03 | PUNQ | 50 78% |
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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.
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| Feb 02 | Parasite | 20 4% |
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| Feb 01 |  |
glumpy_99 | 75 38% |
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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!)
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| Feb 01 |  |
bybrt | 35 11% |
| Feb 01 | moviePete | 44 75% |
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| Jan 30 | circleoffilm | 11 6% |
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| Jan 28 | kylerkelton | 20 14% |
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| Jan 27 |  |
tsvete | 81 18% |
| Jan 27 |  |
Sweet Leaf | 50 10% |
| Jan 27 | Diggler | 53 18% |
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| Jan 27 |  |
Cebion | 65 16% |
| Jan 27 |  |
Temptershell | 55 12% |
| Jan 26 | craziballr | 30 9% |
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| Jan 26 |  |
Korsoh | 60 13% |
| Jan 25 |  |
kk3thess | 50 22% |
| Jan 24 |  |
VanillaSky | 60 53% |
| Jan 24 |  |
PrinceKaro | 62 62% |
| Jan 22 |  |
donmezsefa | 55 30% |
| Jan 22 |  |
BillyShears | 75 65% |
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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.
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| Jan 19 | ibi8588 | 50 14% |
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| Jan 15 | memox63 | 75 30% |
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| Jan 08 | CStewart64 | 9 40% |
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W3E1P0S1V1M1A1R1. Fine, but very middling.
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| Jan 07 |  |
haljordan2 | 1 % |
| Jan 07 | StegSchreck | 60 37% |
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| Jan 04 |  |
oske1305 | 40 7% |
| Jan 03 | Emmcooke | 30 44% |
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| Jan 03 |  |
terrymac | 60 38% |
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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.
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| Jan 01 | jorgeeeeuh | 7 39% |
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| Dec 31, 2018 |  |
JooJoo | 3 30% |
| Dec 31, 2018 |  |
x-human | 74 41% |
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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.
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| Dec 31, 2018 | stephanunc | 70 8% |
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| Dec 29, 2018 | bigboymood | 3 10% |
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| Dec 29, 2018 | bounasim | 63 13% |
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| Dec 28, 2018 | Mencius | 60 12% |
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| Dec 28, 2018 | Mattyvegas | 70 28% |
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| Dec 27, 2018 |  |
Naneli | 68 42% |
| Dec 27, 2018 | QhheVO | 40 14% |
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| Dec 27, 2018 |  |
saudade | 51 40% |
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Pretty nice guy, that Grinch. Unlike the guy I watched this with, that mistakenly thought it was a date. In retrospect, this movie is grody gross.
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| Dec 27, 2018 |  |
cantahta | 64 17% |
| Dec 26, 2018 | davidim | 65 17% |
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| Dec 26, 2018 |  |
Paxton | 79 81% |
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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.
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| Dec 24, 2018 | davidjn | 75 89% |
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| Dec 24, 2018 | lethias | 50 3% |
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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.
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| Dec 24, 2018 | ewalters | 77 62% |
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| Dec 23, 2018 |  |
ladyC | 60 34% |
| Dec 18, 2018 |  |
bad_juice | 15 6% |
| Dec 17, 2018 |  |
Filligan | 52 8% |
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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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| Dec 17, 2018 |  |
KMcNeil | 4 35% |
| Dec 15, 2018 | joedhunt | 75 54% |
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| Dec 15, 2018 |  |
stubbs7 | 73 19% |
| Dec 14, 2018 |  |
Groovy_Souls | 40 19% |
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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.
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| Dec 14, 2018 | dcphillips | 78 24% |
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| Dec 11, 2018 |  |
cminferno | 75 48% |
| Dec 10, 2018 |  |
avgcrtckr | 36 19% |
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filmaffinity | 54 28% |
| Dec 10, 2018 | gdfthr337 | 81 26% |
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| Dec 09, 2018 |  |
RavynLoony | 47 31% |
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Hurricane06 | 83 46% |
| Dec 08, 2018 |  |
sdtanta | 60 6% |
| Dec 08, 2018 | naab | 75 2% |
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| Dec 08, 2018 | Kritikir | 40 11% |
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| Dec 07, 2018 |  |
jewellrunner | 50 18% |
| Dec 06, 2018 | shmc | 30 20% |
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| Dec 04, 2018 | thisispants | 50 8% |
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| Dec 02, 2018 | dmeband | 75 31% |
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| Dec 02, 2018 | jordanlige | 100 51% |
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funny movie
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| Dec 02, 2018 |  |
Bunken | 50 38% |
| Dec 02, 2018 | kjetting () | 37 23% |
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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.
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| Dec 01, 2018 | Eressea | 84 78% |
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| Nov 30, 2018 |  |
Ofterdingen | 61 52% |
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Slight and very enjoyable. Mr. Bricklebaum steals the show.
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| Nov 30, 2018 |  |
LB94 | 74 34% |
| Nov 29, 2018 |  |
cagedwisdom | 75 65% |
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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.
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| Nov 28, 2018 |  |
bowfinger | 40 30% |
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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?
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| Nov 27, 2018 |  |
AzulA | 70 23% |
| Nov 27, 2018 | 3GvUE8 | 70 % |
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| Nov 25, 2018 |  |
tenant | 30 16% |
| Nov 24, 2018 | dhartle | 72 89% |
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| Nov 23, 2018 |  |
Ametrine | 3 33% |
| Nov 23, 2018 | jzrhoades | 40 27% |
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| Nov 23, 2018 |  |
JLFM | 48 23% |
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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.
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| Nov 22, 2018 | bavawajid | 67 18% |
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| Nov 21, 2018 | energylegs23 | 65 36% |
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| Nov 21, 2018 |  |
numan | 58 28% |
| Nov 21, 2018 |  |
sellos | 40 4% |
| Nov 21, 2018 |  |
sibur | 58 22% |
| Nov 18, 2018 | ekraft | 6 37% |
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| Nov 18, 2018 | bcoomag | 80 54% |
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| Nov 18, 2018 | tubasaxt | 80 46% |
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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.
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| Nov 17, 2018 | mammy | 75 54% |
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| Nov 16, 2018 | Devilishmess | 4 5% |
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| Nov 15, 2018 |  |
Amorfus | 88 41% |
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CStuckmann | 78 31% |
| Nov 14, 2018 |  |
tinythedogg | 40 23% |
| Nov 14, 2018 |  |
ADragon91 | 35 12% |
| Nov 14, 2018 | adornment | 58 24% |
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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.
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| Nov 12, 2018 |  |
cowfrappe | 39 7% |
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An empty cash grab with almost no redeeming qualities except a cute animated dog.
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| Nov 12, 2018 |  |
EricDSnider2 | 82 49% |
| Nov 12, 2018 |  |
CoffeeAddict | 73 54% |
| Nov 11, 2018 |  |
Xenophule | 5 12% |
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[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
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| Nov 11, 2018 |  |
Okkervil | 40 29% |
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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....
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| Nov 10, 2018 |  |
TheDailyNathan | 28 3% |
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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.
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| Nov 10, 2018 | filmcricket | 54 41% |
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| Nov 09, 2018 |  |
MetaCritic2 | 50 26% |
| Nov 07, 2018 |  |
JeremyJahns | 2 16% |
| Average Percentile 30.71% from 121 Ratings |  |
