Tacky in the extreme, this self-congratulatory 1988 film is an exercise in hypocrisy, indulging every form of Christmas exploitation that it pretends to attack, and many of the laughs are forced.
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11/27/07
Scrooged (1988)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:1
Rotten:5
Average Rating:3.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A network TV president is perhaps the most cold-hearted man ever, but his holiday spirit is given a painful booster shot by three vengeful ghosts. In this darkly comic updating of Charles Dicken's... [More]
Starring: Bill Murray, John Forsythe, Carol Kane, David Johansen
Director: Richard Donner
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Top CriticAn appallingly unfunny comedy, and a vivid illustration of the fact that money can't buy you laughs.
11/27/07
Top CriticIn spite of the jokes at the expense of television-network censors, there's very little in the film, aside from naughty words, that wouldn't be perfectly acceptable on prime-time television.
05/20/03
Top CriticIf Donner and his team had any interest in the story's message, they've picked a puzzling way to show it.
01/01/00
Top CriticThis is not a 'good movie' -- in fact, it's a sprawling mess -- but I like it.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt was obviously intended as a comedy, but there is little comic about it, and indeed the movie's overriding emotions seem to be pain and anger.
01/01/00
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