I got this because, hey, it had an abundance of musical theater people in it, AND it had music by people who wrote songs for musical theater! However . . . meh. The silliness of it all! The songs were goofy and overdramatic, the back story was goofy and contrived, the lyrics were (primarily) goofy and forced and . . . erm, yes, the entire movie can be very nicely described as "goofy". One of my absolute favorite moments - at the end, Scrooge appears to be taking the entire town to Fred's dinner party. That is NOT the way to get in good with your nephew. Oh, and the kid, also near the end of the movie, who Scrooge sends to buy the turkey. He makes the funniest faces in the entire world. My sibs and I spent more time making fun of it than we did actually watching the movie.Musical Theater Person Sighting: Oh, gosh, so many. That was Jason Alexander as Jacob Marley, Jesse L. Martin as the Ghost of Christmas Present, Claire Moore as Mrs. Fezziwig, Jane Krakowski as the Ghost of Christmas Past, Ruthie Henshall as Scrooge's mother, and Linzi Hateley as Mrs. Cratchit. Those were all the ones I noticed.
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