I've lost track of how many different versions of A Christmas Carol that my wife and I have watched at this point, but it's a lot. I was interested in watching a modern-day version of the story, but had no idea how lazy they could be. This movie was truly atrocious and included some of the worst acting I've ever seen in an adaptation of the Dickens tale. They tried to shoehorn in some of the original dialogue from the book, and it simply didn't work when put in the context of a modern setting. I know the beats so well from this story, and yet somehow this adaptation managed to make it all seem clunky and lack any kind of flow.
It's clear that some guys gathered together and decided they could do an easy cash grab with a story which is in the public domain, so they slapped something together and even tried making it a little more edgy by changing Bob Cratchett into a woman, and making Tim her husband with cancer rather than a kid. However, they didn't think about how this impacts the overall story. I mean there's really no financial way that Scrooge can magically make cancer better, particularly in a nation that already has the NHS to cover most medical costs. It's just a dumb movie, and it's kind of embarrassing that they manage to take a story that even kids cartoons can get right and mess it up this badly.
