Disney's A Christmas Carol

I don't know about you but I found it very difficult to understand Jim Carrey's Victorian accent when he's acting as Ebenezer Scrooge. Especially when he mumbled in a soft voice using the Victorian vocabulary, he sounded incoherent.I have never read Charles Dickens' story so I have no idea how accurate the fantasy was, but the Ghost Of Christmas Past had a flickering candle as his head, and the Ghost Of Christmas Present was a laughing giant. I did not get those at all.I'm also not one to appreciate this kind of animation. Sure, the features of Scrooge looked real and a lot like Carrey, but I personally don't find them appealing as they tend to feel caricature-like. Each movement they make, even when they speak, looked too uncomfortable to be enjoyed. No doubt more of these human-movements-rendered-into-animation will follow but until they perfect it, they are not going to win me over. Only Scrooge looked a bit more convincing compared to the rest of the characters.I do wonder if director Robert Zemeckis planned how to shoot each scene in 3D first before getting the plot and script right. Watching the whole story played out, the emotional connection wasn't there because each scene that mattered was too short, and those that were purely aesthetics were too long. In the end, the movie suffered from achieving that emotional effect; which when done right, would have brought tears to its audience. This however did not.And with so much focus on all of Carrey's characters, the other actors were almost not there. It was a waste of talents. But having said all that, it wasn't so bad that I would fail it. The Christmas magic was still there, although just barely.Rating: 5 / 10