How the Grinch stole Christmas

Year of release : 2000

 

Run time : 1h41min

 

Genre : Family / Comedy / Musical / Fantasy

 

Cast : Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen, Christine Baranski, Molly Shannon, Jeffrey Tambor

 

 

The movie is based on Dr. Seuss' 1957 book of the same name, and is narrated wonderfully by Anthony Hopkins.

 

Inside a snowflake abides the magical land of Whoville. In Whoville live the Whos. All the Whos love Christmas. Outside Whoville, atop of Mount Crumpit , lives the Grinch, who hates Christmas.

Nobody knows why he hates Christmas, it could be because his heart is way too small.

 

A couple of teenagers dare each other to go to the Grinch's door, and this makes the Grinch come down into their town, to wreck a little havoc.

 

Cindy Lou meets the Grinch in the gifts department of her father's store (it might be the mail office),and because he saves her, she thinks he's not that bad. So she starts interviewing the Whos to find out his story.

 

The Whos tell the story of a child who had a crush on Martha May, and the way Martha May tells the story, his feelings might have been reciprocated.

Mayor May-Who liked Martha too, so he made life hard for the Grinch.

The stories reveal a Grinch who liked Christmas but due to the humiliation received on Christmas ended up hating it and becoming a loner.

 

Cindy Lou comes with a proposal for the Whos : to give the Grinch the Whoville Holiday Cheermeister Award, because he's the one who needs it most.

 

Cindy Lou goes to Mount Crumpit to invite the Grinch. He accepts when he hears about the award, and Martha May.

 

I personally enjoyed the movie. The Grinch is a sad lonely character,who seems to be disguising his pain and loneliness into not caring and hatred. Cindy Lou is a good soul who sees in the Grinch what only Martha May did in their youth.

 

The actors are all great, the visual effects are good, and I love the world they created,the Whoville universe.

The movie received mixed reviews from critics, and grossed 350.6 million dollars at the box office, against a budget of 123 million dollars, being the highest grossing movie of the year 2000 in the USA, the 6th highest grossing movie of 2000 worldwide, and the 4th highest grossing Christmas movie of all time.

Cinema Score audiences graded the movie an A-!

The movie won the Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, being also nominated for Best Production Design and Best Costume Design. Jim Carrey was also nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy.

Ironically, the movie was also nominated for the Razzie awards, for Worst Remake or Sequel, and Worst Screenplay, and the Stinkers Bad Movie Awards, for Worst Supporting Actress (for Taylor Momsen, who was also nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor for this role!), Worst Song or Song Performance ("Christmas why can't I find you?" sang by Taylor Momsen), and Worst On-Screen Hairstyle (Taylor Momsen ,again.Her hair was weird looking, to be honest) .

Rating : Worth a watch !