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25 Days of Christmas (Carol): Day 21
When I started this experiment, I knew this day would come. I tried to delay the inevitable, pushing this movie back as far as I could. But today was the day, the day I watched adaptation number 21, Barbie in A Christmas Carol. The first thing that hit me was the abnormally bad CG animation. […]
25 Days of Christmas (Carol): Day 20
Appropriately, adaptation 20 features our good friend Alastair Sims reprises the role that made him famous twenty years earlier, in 1971’s animated feature A Christmas Carol. I’m surprised this late into the experiment to make this statement: this is the best adaptation I’ve seen yet. The animation has a strange feel to it that I […]
25 Days of Christmas (Carol): Day 19
Adaptation 19 is Blackadder’s Christmas Carol a one-off TV special taking place between seasons three and four. Contrary to prior generations of Blackadders, Ebenezer is a kind and generous (but still quite snarky) man from the get go. In fact, when he’s visited by the Spirit of Christmas, its to congratulate him instead of of […]
25 Days of Christmas (Carol): Day 18
Its back to basics with adaptation 18, the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol. This version is a pure translation of the story, taking very few creative liberties from its source. Darker aspects of the story have been removed, such as Scrooge’s romantic past, The Ghost of Christmas Past’s two robe children, and the ransacking […]
25 Days of Christmas (Carol): Day 17
No stranger to beating a dead horse, adaptation 17 is Bah Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas, a second adaptation featuring Looney Tunes characters made 27 years later. This time, Yosemite Sam switches roles, taking the character of The Ghost of Christmas Present, with Daffy Duck taking his place as our Scrooge. At 45 minutes, this […]
25 Days of Christmas (Carol): Day 16
Today, I look back at my childhood with adaptation 16, A Christmas Plotz, an episode of Animaniacs that aired when I was only six years old. With a WB executive taking the Scrooge role and the Warner children taking on the three ghosts. The episode is full of musical numbers, self-aware puns, and not so […]
25 Days of Christmas (Carol): Day 15
Adaptation 15 is A Jetson Christmas Carol, a TV adaptation starring Hanna Barbera’s “Flintstones in space”. While keeping the basic plot points of A Christmas Carol, it seems to have completely neglected all its meaning. Perhaps this is because everyone in the Jetson future is a greedy son of a bitch. Though the story tries […]
25 Days of Christmas (Carol): Day 14
Stubbing your toe, eating a handful of bees, playing “got your nose” with a bear. All of these are less painful than adaptation number 14, An American Carol, a parody film by director David Zucker. Once responsible for such greats as Airplane!, Top Secret, and The Naked Gun, it’s sad to see a former great […]
25 Days of Christmas (Carol): Day 13
Adaptation number 13 is one of many Star Wars fan tribute videos from 2002, Star Wars: A Christmas Carol. Darth Vader takes the role of Scrooge this time around, with Jar Jar Binks, Jabba the Hutt, and Boba Fett playing the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Future respectively. The animation feels very amateur, the […]
Review: Have Yourself A Meaty Little Christmas
Already with two video games and a theatrical release (with another movie rumored for late next year), this isn’t Aqua Teen Hunger Force’s first foray out of the TV medium. Adult Swim’s longest running show pulls off the unimaginable in Have Yourself A Meaty Little Christmas: an entertaining, if not completely blasphemous, new Christmas album.
25 Days of Christmas (Carol): Day 12
How I came to be in possession of adaptation 12, A Solstice Carol, was a complete fluke. It was a 1998 theatrical production by a long forgotten Unix company, SCO (Santa Cruz Operation), known mainly for their versions of Xenix and UnixWare. As a morale booster for their employees, the company would hold an annual […]
25 Days of Christmas (Carol): Day 11
Adaptation number 11 is a short Merrie Melodies film named Bugs Bunny’s Christmas Carol. Starring Yosemite Sam as Scrooge, Porky Pig as Crachit, and Bugs Bunny as himself, this cartoon is nothing more than your typical Bugs Bunny vs. rival cartoon, just with a basic Christmas flair added to it. The Ghost of Christmas are […]
25 Days of Christmas (Carol): Day 10
Adaptation 10 brings us to a familiar childhood place, Sesame Street, in A Sesame Street Christmas Carol. The Jim Henson Company has been responsible for the Holy Grail of Christmas Carols, The Muppet Christmas Carol, so I had extremely high hopes for this one. It’s just too bad my hopes were shattered. Sesame Street’s 2006 […]
25 Days of Christmas (Carol): Day 9
Dull, dull, dull, dull, dull. That’s what best describes day 9’s animated adaptation, Christmas Carol: The Movie. Even with a comparable size list of recognizable celebrities to the recently released Zemeckis version isn’t enough to save this film from being anything more than mindless drivel. While normally I don’t mind creative changes to a story […]
2nd DLC Pack for Brütal Legend Coming December 17th
Double Fine Productions announced today that a second DLC pack for Brütal Legend, titled “Hammer of Infinite Fate”, is coming to a console near you on December 17th. Like previous pack “Tears of the Hextadon”, this pack includes new multiplayer maps, 4 to be exact: the Altar of Blood, Coiled Remains, Crucible of the Titans […]
