JohnBarleycorn

Watched this a couple of weeks ago. Here are my thoughts: Good Points: 1. Jason Alexander as Jacob Marley/Marley's Ghost. (I happen to be a short, stocky, neurotic man in his 40's and am losing my hair.) 2. Jane Krakowski as Christmas Past. She is HOT looking! 3. Dancing undertakers and gravediggers in Xmas Future scene. What can I say? They were just COOL!!! And I think there should be a major party EVERY time that a CEO of a major corporation croaks. 4. Scrooge's father being sent to debtors' prison. (This does not happen in the novel, BUT it did happen to Charles Dickens' father in real life.)

Bad Points: 1. Kelsey Grammar as Scrooge. He made such a good tight ass as Frazier on CHEERS and FRAZIER. What happened? 2. TOO MUCH SINGING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3. Towards the end of the Christmas future scene, just as Scrooge repents, a children's chorus or choir comes in to the graveyard. What's up with this?!

This movie was well written , well acted, featured an excellent cast but had a far from cheerful ending. It kind of reminded me of a verse from the bible that all the holy roller,bible-thumping fundies used to shove down MY throat when I was a kid. "The wages of sin is death". I do have to disagree with a few people on this website on one item in particular. That is the fact that they refer to the soundtrack as "excellent disco music" or "good disco music". Comrades, the terms excellent and good (and even the term music!) being applied to disco is a contradiction of terms! Disco was one of the most horrible,horrible things to have ever occurred in the late 20th century.