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How the Grinch Stole Christmas

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6.8/10 • 7.4K

2000-11-171h 44m

FamilyComedyFantasy

He puts the mean in green.

The Grinch decides to rob Whoville of Christmas - but a dash of kindness from little Cindy Lou Who and her family may be enough to melt his heart...

Directors
Ron Howard
Editors
Daniel P. Hanley

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  1. Jim Carrey

    Jim Carrey

    Grinch

  2. Taylor Momsen

    Taylor Momsen

    Cindy Lou Who

  3. Jeffrey Tambor

    Jeffrey Tambor

    Mayor Augustus Maywho

  4. Christine Baranski

    Christine Baranski

    Martha May Whovier

  5. Bill Irwin

    Bill Irwin

    Lou Lou Who

  6. Molly Shannon

    Molly Shannon

    Betty Lou Who

  7. Clint Howard

    Clint Howard

    Whobris

  8. Josh Ryan Evans

    Josh Ryan Evans

    8-Year-Old Grinch

  9. Mindy Sterling

    Mindy Sterling

    Clarnella

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Kamurai

Jul 27, 2020

7/10

Really good watch, will eventually watch again, and can recommend, but less so for younger audiences. I never remembered all the weird adult humor in this, it is usually just the charming grinchiness of Jim Carey's overacting that sticks with me, and maybe the Christmas spirit of Mary Lou Who. The movie manages to ride this wonderfully line between keeping the spirit of the book (even rhyming at times) and being new and refreshing, but it does do that by playing to the adults that would have read the book as a child rather than endearing a new generation of children, but I think they intended to try to do both. Jim Carey embodies the Grinch like no one else possibly could (I think Mike Myers proved that in "The Cat in the Hat"), and that is the majority of this so if you don't enjoy him, then you won't enjoy this movie. I do think they added some refreshing character interactions, though some of the execution is much better than others. While it is far from a perfect movie, my biggest gripe is their stupid noses: it seriously bothers me the entire movie. It bothers me more than them dressing the Grinch, which points out that he is naked a LOT with his "co lead" being a young girl: you can see it just distracts from the spirit of the movie. I don't think that everyone is going to love this movie, but it's hard to imagine that people will hate it.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$123,000,000.00
Revenue
$345,800,000.00
Keywords
new lovebased on novel or bookholidaychristmas partyvillagesanta claussurrealismthiefpublic humiliationchristmassurreal world