Missed the first one? Read it here.I know what your thinking. "Oh, the Grinch! You mean the classic Chuck Jones 30 minute cartoon that was made in the 60's? Oh yeah, that's loaded with Nostalgia." Well, your wrong. I'm reviewing the 2000-Jim-Carrey-starring-Ron-Howard-directed version. Ho ho ho!
Before we start this, I've got something to say. I didn't think I ever would have to say this, nor am I proud of it, but I need to get this off my chest before we start. Otherwise I won't be able to do this properly. You ready?
I kinda like this movie.
Now hold your fire! I'm going to tell you why this movie doesn't suck half as hard as you think it does. First of all, let me tell you what seeing this movie was like as an 8 year old. I live out in the boonies. Our biggest movie theater hold less than 200 people, and that's in the biggest theater they got! So when you go to see a movie, there are usually not that many people in the theater, maybe half the theater is full, tops. But with The Grinch, that way not the case. The whole theater was packed! And I don't mean packed as in all the seats were full. I mean packed as in people were sitting in the aisles and climbing on the walls to get a better view over the mass of people. Never was I in a theater where the audience was this excited to see a movie until Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest a couple years later.
Then the movie started, and the audience was so responsive to everything that was happening on screen. I'd compare it more towards when I saw "Weird Al" Yankovic in concert than a typical movie screening. Cheering along with laughing consistently throughout the movie. It was incredible and my favorite movie screening I've ever attended.
But you don't want to listen to me blabber about the movie theater I was in when first saw it. You want to know whether the movie itself is good. Well, it's not great, but certainly not worth all the terrible criticism this movie gets. Lets start off with the bad stuff. The flashbacks to when the Grinch was young are awful. Yuck. Watching them are painful. And Cindy Lou Who is really annoying. She's cute at first, but soon your just annoyed they're spending so much time on her in the movie. She's simply too altruistic. She also can't sing. "Where are You Christmas?" is just a bad song, and nothing you can say will change my mind. You could tell me "If you listen to this song, I'll give 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 dollars to charity," and I'd still say no. Partly because I know you are lying. Nobody has that much money. Most of the side characters are pretty bad too. Molly Shannon, who usually makes me laugh pretty hard, just couldn't get a giggle out of me.
Now for the good. First off, Jim Carrey is my hero forever. He is brilliant in this movie. I don't even know why, but that's part of the magic of it. He's just a funny guy to watch on screen, I guess. And the supporting cast did a pretty good job for the most part. Jeffery Tambor as the mayor was awesome! I love him! His character was pretty lame and cliche, but he definitely made the most of it.
Maybe I'm just an immature person, but some of the jokes did make me laugh. For instance, when Grinch says "This could change my entire outlook on life!" to which Cindy replies "Really?", and the Grinch says "No" and promply sends her through a tube that sends her into a garbage dump. AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHhahahahahahah heh heh a ha. Well, it was funny at the time.
I don't know. It's certainly not a good movie, but as a kids movie it has it's charms and it won't make a parent want to maim themselves alive, like some movies out there. Still, I suggest sticking to Chuck Jones' classic cartoon version. This is alright. That is timeless.
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