How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
Directed by Chuck Jones
Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of a nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. Disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he decides to raid the village to steal all the Christmas things.
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At a meager 86 minutes, this 2018 adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s iconic storybook “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” nonetheless adds a menagerie of new material, including a subplot about Cindy Lou Who scheming to ensnare Santa and a handful of new characters including a chubby reindeer named Fred, offering an admittedly adorable – if definitely not superior – update to the classic holiday mainstay.
I was skeptical that the short story by Dr. Seuss, already immortalized in the 26-minute Boris Karloff-starring 1966 animated TV special “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” could be stretched into an 86-minute movie.
You’re a Mean One: Okay, more specifically, this latest adaption of the iconic Dr. Seuss How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
The heel-face turn is a great tradition in stories about villains, and it’s given American pop culture some of its most memorable story endings — in Return of the Jedi, in Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, even most recently in Moana .
The story speeds along at a fast clip, opening with fine voice-over narration from Geoffrey Rush, who puts us in nostalgic mind of the masterful work done by Boris Karloff for Dr. Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"