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Scrooged gets by with Bill Murray and a dash of holiday spirit, although it's hampered by a markedly conflicted tone and an undercurrent of mean-spiritedness.
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It's not a bad notion for a satiric comedy and this one begins well, but then veers entirely out of hand until it's as over-inflated as its own Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come and as funny as a mugging. November 19, 2019 | Full Review…
It's not a bad notion for a satiric comedy and this one begins well, but then veers entirely out of hand until it's as over-inflated as its own Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come and as funny as a mugging.
Sheila Benson
On balance... Bill Murray's lazy humor carries the movie up until his genuinely sweet relationship with an old girlfriend. November 19, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
On balance... Bill Murray's lazy humor carries the movie up until his genuinely sweet relationship with an old girlfriend.
Gene Siskel
Despite the juicy, on-the-edge craziness, Murray is able to layer his outrageous histrionics with an inner sensibility, making his ultimate transformation not only believable but Christmas-cheer uplifting. April 7, 2015 | Full Review…
Despite the juicy, on-the-edge craziness, Murray is able to layer his outrageous histrionics with an inner sensibility, making his ultimate transformation not only believable but Christmas-cheer uplifting.
Duane Byrge
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. November 27, 2007 | Rating: 1/4
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.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
An appallingly unfunny comedy, and a vivid illustration of the fact that money can't buy you laughs. November 27, 2007 | Full Review…
An appallingly unfunny comedy, and a vivid illustration of the fact that money can't buy you laughs.
Variety Staff
Rowdy stuff for the light in head. June 24, 2006 | Full Review…
Rowdy stuff for the light in head.
It's a missed opportunity, but some gags still hit the mark and there's a stream of starry cameos... November 19, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's a missed opportunity, but some gags still hit the mark and there's a stream of starry cameos...
John Ferguson
Scrooged is, indeed, phenomenally loud, and also very mean, and somehow also ultimately heartening, in a loopy yuletide sort of way. November 27, 2018 | Full Review…
Scrooged is, indeed, phenomenally loud, and also very mean, and somehow also ultimately heartening, in a loopy yuletide sort of way.
Rob Harvilla
Still, Murray is magnificent in the film, the effects are better than you'd expect, and the 1988 version of Hollywood excess is almost quaint by comparison with the CGI purgatory we live in today. December 15, 2017 | Full Review…
Still, Murray is magnificent in the film, the effects are better than you'd expect, and the 1988 version of Hollywood excess is almost quaint by comparison with the CGI purgatory we live in today.
Sean Nelson
It would be hard to improve upon the classic, after all, and Scrooged not only sticks to the Dickens plot, but makes it believable as a modern fable. But the more difficult part of Scrooged is its modernization, the colorization of Dickens, if you will. December 9, 2017 | Full Review…
It would be hard to improve upon the classic, after all, and Scrooged not only sticks to the Dickens plot, but makes it believable as a modern fable. But the more difficult part of Scrooged is its modernization, the colorization of Dickens, if you will.
Cathy Burke
Murray, it's clear today, was the perfect Scrooge of the '80s. December 29, 2015 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Murray, it's clear today, was the perfect Scrooge of the '80s.
Rob Gonsalves
Murray doing what he does best, if you like that sort of thing. November 9, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Murray doing what he does best, if you like that sort of thing.
William Thomas
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