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With all the remakes of "A Christmas Carol," it's nice to watch one that actually captures a warm, Christmas spirit. This animated version is short and leaves out a lot of the storyline, but it gives you the basics. Mickey Mouse makes a surprisingly good Bob Cratchit, and the Tiny Tim is the only one from any movie so far who has actually won my sympathy instead of annoying me! It helps a lot that Scrooge has a more human voice than the other Disney characters. A lot of his dialog is heartfelt and touching.

The music is nice, too, adding a lot to the feel of the movie. The animation is clean and creates a much better London than most live action movies can!

This version is great to watch with kids - it is simplified, so it is easy for them to understand, but you will enjoy it too. It makes you glad it's Christmas time :)

This is one of those movies that has a hard to believe premise, but even if you accept it, the half million or so plot holes will get you in the end. The world is completely under water. Kevin Costner wears creepy skin tight clothes and has gills - ? He's sailing around in a boat straight out of "Gilligan's Island" - everything is high tech, yet apparently made of bamboos. He's stuck with a sexy woman, whose legs magically never get hairy despite the lack of razors, and a cute little girl with dreds. He's a complete ass so I didn't really care what happened to him, and the woman was stupid, so I didn't care what happened to her either. I would have cared about the little girl, but by then I was so disenchanted with the movie that I just couldn't.

Like most bad sci-fi type movies, this one doesn't pay enough attention to details - why are there all types of different American dialects, all in tact? Wouldn't everyone be speaking some kind of water language by then? Why don't they make some water processing factories so they can drink all the salt water? I could go on, but I won't.

The only good thing about this movie was that it totally put me in the mood to watch GOOD movies that takes place in boats - "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Hook."

Finally - here is a movie which dares to go deeper than the surface when exploring the life of a superhero-like character. No, not "Spider-man 2," but "Serial Killing 4 Dummys!" This enchanting movie takes us into the life of high school student Casey Noland, who wants nothing more than to be the world's most notorious serial killer. Fellow student Lisa 'Oops, spent all my money from the hit song' Loeb, looking as non-conformist as ever with those adorable glasses, befriends Casey and his dream.

The movie explores how serial killers are really just like you and me: They lock their keys in their cars! They suck at gym class! They're plagued by baby fat and freckles when they just want to look tough!

Like all would-be superheroes, Casey has but one tragic flaw which prevents his dreams from becoming reality. In this case, the flaw is called being a lame-ass. The audience watches in suspense, helpless, as Casey fails mission after mission as a serial killer, crawling back home to lick his wounds and practice new serial killer catch-phrases in the mirror. (I got the skill - to kill!) A high point of the movie (other than just turning it off) is the hardware store scene with Corey Feldman. Someone I was watching the movie with commented that Corey probably got the part because he was already working at the store anyway, but it's obvious to me that he snagged the role for his acting ability. In short, before subjecting yourself to this movie, find someone who is less of a lame-ass than Casey and have that person kill you, because you'll wish you were dead while viewing this piece of crap.