This version isn't a "good" adaptation, but it's cute, innocuous holiday fare. Yeah, Tiny Tim's laugh cracks glass. But it's not a "bad" movie to come out of Hollywood's so-called Golden Age.
But is it not just a bit peculiar that a grown man with a doting family waiting at home would join a group of troublemaking street boys throwing snowballs to knock the hats off the head of complete strangers on Christmas Eve??
Bob was still a boy at heart.
He's taking the knife out of the Cheese!
Do you think he wants some cheese?
Haven't you ever wanted to delay conveying bad news to somone or having a delayed reaction to it? The longer it took to go home, the longer his family would be in the dark about his firing.
"May I bone your kipper, Mademoiselle?"
Ouh, he hadn't been fired until he joined the group of troublemaking street boys throwing snowballs to knock the hats off the head of complete strangers on Christmas Eve.
shareI've decided to go head and comment about this here. Frankly, I like this version a bit but it is inferior to a lot of the other versions I've seen. I feel there were too many comedic moments in this one. Like the part where Jacob Marley comes to Scrooge and Scrooge yells out the window at some police men outside his window. They come up and don't believe him. They laugh at him and leave. This scene should not have been there. I also don't care for the comedic way Bob Cratchit was done. There's also Scrooge loving Christmas towards the end of his time with the Ghost of Christmas Present. This makes his time with Ghost of Christmas future rather pointless. I admit I'd give this one a 6/10. It's inferior to a lot of the other versions I have seen.
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