It's Christmas, Carol!

The movie has a great theme, even if it is yet another 'reimagining' of A Christmas Carol, this time with a female Scrooge and a coma.

Emmanuelle Vaugier plays a detestile boss. It's ridiculously unbelievable that she doesn't give her employees Christmas off? I didn't buy that. They could have scripted something unlikeable but believable. Even the original Scrooge gave Bob Cratchett Christmas Day off.

However, Carrie Fisher comes in and saves this movie. She personality makes up for the lack of personality Vaugier produces. Frankly. Fisher makes an otherwise unwatchable film watchable to the point my gut said 7 Stars when I went to click the rating.

Yet another Made-for-TV movie from the Hallmark Channel and this one is 2012's take on A Christmas Carol. Carrie Fisher has the role as all three ghosts showing Emmanuelle Vaugier her life in three different ways. I knew I'd seen her somewhere before -- ah yes, Mia in Two and a Half Men and she was also in many eps of CSI: NY.

One scene in particular was kind of interesting when in a library, a Star Wars book was seen on a nearby shelf in the background. There was also a Star Wars mention. Those were kind of the highlights, it's sad to say. Other than that this tele-film lacks charm. Many versions of a Christmas Carol do... not very Christmasy. Ah well. Still, for some twisted reason, I'd actually maybe watch it again someday.

5.4 / 10 stars

--Zoooma, a Kat Pirate Screener

We all know the story once we figure out where all the new players fit. Carol is obviously Scrooge. But one of the first new things is there is only one Christmas ghost, and it is Carol's late partner, Eve. The real treat though is that it is Carrie Fisher. She even makes a Star Wars joke.

There is some good humor here and there. The story follows the general lines of the original so we won't be terribly surprised by much. The acting is good, especially Fisher.

I liked this modern telling of A Christmas Carol. Yes I Recommend it. James Welch Henderson, Arkansas. 11/14/2020

I was hoping this would be so much better, but it was bad right from the start. The music volume was way too loud in relation to the rest of the audio and didn't get corrected until well into the film. But that was the least of the problems. The acting was out and out terrible and there was not a likable character in the whole film. Ben the writer/exboyfriend would lose an acting competition with a piece of lumbar and Fred, the over the top drama queen I just wanted to slap silly. The writing was poor and how does a publisher not know The Christmas Carol? How was this a comedy? It was like watching bad community theatre.