How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 129
Fresh: 69 | Rotten: 60
Jim Carrey shines as the Grinch. Unfortunately, it's not enough to save this movie. You'd be better off watching the TV cartoon.
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 15
Jim Carrey shines as the Grinch. Unfortunately, it's not enough to save this movie. You'd be better off watching the TV cartoon.
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He's mean, he's green, and he's doesn't like the Yuletide season one bit -- Jim Carrey stars in this live-action adaptation of the classic children's story by Dr. Seuss (aka Theodore Geisel). High atop Mt. Crumpet, the Grinch (Carrey) observes the residents of Whoville joyously preparing to celebrate Christmas. The Grinch was born in Whoville years ago, but was shunned due to his scary appearance, and his unrequited love for Martha May Whovier has turned him bitter; the good cheer of the Whos
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Cast
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Jim Carrey
The Grinch -
Jeffrey Tambor
Mayor May Who -
Christine Baranski
Martha May Whovier -
Bill Irwin
Lou Lou Who -
Molly Shannon
Betty Lou Who -
Clint Howard
Whobris -
Taylor Momsen
Cindy Lou Who -
Anthony Hopkins
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Joshua Ryan Evans
Young Grinch -
Mindy Sterling
Clarnella -
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All Critics (134) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (72) | Rotten (60) | DVD (33)
Five-year-olds might go for it, but people who grew up with Jones' version will be looking at their watches and grinding their teeth.
Cloying fancy gives way to gross-out comedy, twisted social commentary, affecting pathos, and weirdly sexualized romance in this lurid live-action version of the classic children's book.
Shrill, strenuous and entirely without charm.
This cinematic candy floss honours the Seussian universe by satirising our own. And Carrey's comic tornado of a performance is a triumph.
Top CriticHow the Grinch stole Christmas is one kind of larceny. How Jim Carrey steals the picture is another matter entirely.
Perhaps 20 minutes too long and subject to torpor.
Live-action version of classic has some crude, scary moments.
An unforgivable transgression from the usually reliable Ron Howard, "Grinch" boasts the visual polish of a Menards tree aisle and resembles not a cheerful Christmas, but rather what the bloodcurdling onset of a mescaline bender might feel like.
Howard and the rest of the crew do something the late Dr. Seuss never would: take chronological age over the youthful, innocent spirit that lingers untouched in everyone--and never goes out of style.
Parents can relax: Ron Howard's version of Dr. Seuss' tale of the Christmas-napping Grinch is a smartly stylized hoot.
The costumes astound, the sight gags abound, but the heart, oh the heart, now that must be found.
...A jumbled mess, art-directed to within an inch of its life...
Unfortunately, Ron Howard is the Grinch who stole Christmas from Jim Carrey.
A holiday gift, The Grinch just may steal the hearts of kids and grown-ups alike.
Universal Pictures has definitely left something under your Christmas tree, but you might want to clean it up soon before it leaves a permanent stain.
In adding material, The Grinch loses much of its rhythm and the heart within it shrinks three sizes right along with it.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas is thick with irony but doesn't have the guts to explore any of it.
If God is in the details, then this is the most righteous movie ever made.Jim Carrey is the only man deserving to interpret Chuck Jones' animation.
It's funny, it's sincere and it's gloriously bizarre.
This delightful fantasy offers Happy Who-lidays to the young and the young at heart.
Audience Reviews for How the Grinch Stole Christmas
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- Cindy Lou Who: You're the-the-the-
- The Grinch: The-the-the- THE GRINCH!
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- The Grinch: We're gonna die! We're gonna die! I'm gonna throw up and then we're gonna die!
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- The Grinch: [looks at the camera] Kids these days, so desensitized by movies and television.
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- The Grinch: [while looking in mirror at his clothes] Ooooo.... ahhhh....ohhh. That's it I'm not going.
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- The Grinch: Hey taxi! [taxi drives by] Oh, it's because I'm green, isn't it?
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- The Grinch: BLAST this Christmas music... it's joyful AND triumphant.
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Latest News on How the Grinch Stole Christmas
February 8, 2013:
Universal Plans New Grinch MovieAnd this time, it'll be animated.
August 1, 2007:
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February 5, 2007:
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- Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas (DE)
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