Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Scarecrow-88 What a wonderful surprise! Unlike a lot of Magoo fans, I actually didn't grow up with "Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol", and so this was a delightful special to be experiencing for the first time. I picked up a set of Christmas specials (Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty, the Snowman, etc.) that had this featured as an extra, but it could easily be a headlining cartoon instead of an additional feature. With that wonderfully distinctive voice of Gilligan Island's Jim Backus as Magoo, and the character being transplanted into the Dickens' classic so familiar to those of us who watch all the different versions of "A Christmas Carol" (well, Magoo is performing the role on Broadway; it opens with Magoo driving haphazardly through NYC and entering the wrong building instead of the theater for which he was to perform), I now fully understand why this is heralded as a classic to be enjoyed and revered. If you enjoy the cartoon animation of the period of Hanna-Barbara, then this should be a real treat.Oddly, the version has Scrooge visited by Ghost of Christmas Present first, then Christmas Present afterward; I wonder if this was intentional. It certainly changes things up a bit. Besides that, this Christmas Carol adaptation (with even songs performed; my favorite is "We're Despicable (Plunderer's March)") is surprisingly faithful. While not covering the sister he lost (and not acknowledging his nephew), it does follow Cratchet and his family's plight, Scrooge's lonely Christmas childhood abandonment, Fezziwig's dance on Christmas Eve where Scrooge fell in love with Belle (and Belle's leaving him because she knew he loved profit more), Tiny Tim and Scrooge's death, and Scrooge's transformation after realizing the error of his ways. Interestingly, the bitter reaction of Mrs. Cratchet's wife regarding her husband thanking "the founder of their feast" and Scrooge's "raising of Bob's salary" after startling him with his character change are side-by-side with Scrooge actually coming to Bob's house (the wife complaining actually appears during the visit of Christmas Present & typically Scrooge startles Bob with his transformation at the cold business establishment), but little tweaks on the familiar are commonplace when it comes to "A Christmas Carol". Every adaptation sort of leaves a little out or adds a little to "A Christmas Carol". The finale has a curtain call that goes badly wrong when a nearly-blind Magoo winds up trying to do a good thing (allow the theater audience to see the director of their stage production; he's wrapped in bandages thanks to Magoo's clumsiness), destroying the sets on the stage in the process!!! The "We're Despicable" musical number has the laundress, undertaker, and maid celebrating how terrible they are when bringing taken items of Scrooge (after his death!) to a black-market buyer/seller! The animation of Grim Reaper is another cool presentation of the Ghost of Christmas Future. Apparently there's a scene cut from this version that I watched involving Belle...this is a disappointment since I was hoping this was an unedited version considering its good quality and rather new release.

Cosmoeticadotcom The best ever.Let those words penetrate. I state them in reference to the titular work under review and, mind you, I have seen every film and telefilm 'straight' version of Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol, plus almost every humorous take on it- be it spoof or satire, from lame musical adaptations to modernized updates to the brilliant reworking of the tale in the first season of the great American television sitcom, The Odd Couple. But, the animated Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol is the best version ever of the tale, and that includes Dickens' own often too heavyhanded morality play itself. The reason is that the cartoon takes on all the best elements of the source work, mitigates that work's flaws, deepens its positives, and adds a goodly amount of its own improvements. It is, in short, one of the finest examples of television cartoonery ever made, and, interestingly, try as I might, I cannot find a single objective flaw in it. But, there is a flaw, albeit in my own criticism. I just stated that Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol is 'one of the finest examples of television cartoonery ever made,' and that is incorrect. In fact, it is THE finest example of television cartoonery ever made, with the caveat that I have only a great knowledge of American cartoonery. It is also a great example of pop art made for children that succeeds on other levels, not unlike such films as The Curse Of The Cat People and Godzilla's Revenge.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- Mr. MaGoo's Christmas Carole, 1962. Famous actor, Quincy MaGoo is in a Broadway show playing Ebeneezer Scooge in the Dicken's Christmas Carol play. The production is part comedy, drama, musical and melodrama and is shared with the TV viewers.*Special Stars- Jim Backus, Morey Amsterdam, Jack Cassidy, Royal Dano, Paul Frees, Les Tremayne, Joan Gardner.*Theme- Redemption is possible at anytime of your life.*Trivia/location/goofs- Animation, USA, One of the first Christmas specials that would be broadcast every year during that season. The Christmas tree was not a seasonal fixture at the time the story takes place.*Emotion- Great memories of this film and catchy tunes for the Christmas Dicken's story. However, has been re-broadcast for it's 50th anniversary with bright digital colors on network TV, but horribly butchered for today's commercial many breaks and shorter running time. See it in it's original running time and uncut on DVD or Director's Cut VHS.

atinder The only really reason I saw this was because of The Simpsons, in Tis the Fifteenth Season titled episode.Homer was watching this on TV, it find it funny in the Simpsons, Well should came on here cause, I didn't think it would have been a musical, I as i wasn't really in mood for one.So any musical parts, I Fast forwards those parts,I thought it would have been a lot more funny then it was it, I did really find it that funny at all. I didn't really like the whole movie at all, it did not feel like a Christmas movie at all.I can't say anything about the acting in this movie, some parts of the cartoon are really outdated now