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100With Carrey hitting a career peak, this Grinch doesn't steal Christmas; it restores the season by helping energize us enough to make it through the whole thing.
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91He's (Carrey) a marvelous Grinch in this spirited, bustling and mostly faithful spin on Seuss.
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88Deliriously inventive.
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80Carrey is an actor possessed. He's brilliant.
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75Opulence almost interferes with the movie, weighing it down when it should seem lighter than air, surrounding the inarguably brilliant Carrey with too much frosting and frou-frou.
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75Carrey is excellent, making the most of his comic gifts even in a cumbersome Grinch outfit, and the eye-spinning color scheme is dazzling to behold.
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70Entrancingly lurid live-action fantasy.
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67Not likely to become any landmark achievement, yet it's sure to earn a berth among the perennial Christmas film classics.
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67If anything, the real surprise here is how affecting he makes the Grinch's ultimate big hearted turnaround, as Carrey the actor sneaks up on Carrey the wild man dervish. In whichever mode, he carreys the movie.
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63By far the best and cutest thing about How the Grinch Stole Christmas is the dog Max.
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63Leave it to Ron Howard to turn a plaintive Dr. Seuss ditty into a C-grade Tim Burton psychodrama.
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60A smartly stylized hoot.
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60One overstuffed movie, but it's by no means a turkey.
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50I am not a mind-reader and cannot be sure, but I think a lot of children are going to look at this movie with perplexity and distaste. It's just not much fun.
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50It's a big stuffed turkey of a movie, just in time for the holidays.
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50Overall, the film sparkles. But it's a curiously unaffecting sparkle, an example, almost, of how the special effects stole Christmas.
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50Overproduced and essentially charmless.
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50Noisy, random and hard on the eyes.
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50The movie rises to another level whenever its star has a chance to cut loose -- leading the ensemble in a conga line, winning a sack race in slow motion, torching the Whos' Christmas tree while screaming, "Burn baby burn."
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50The scenes involving just him (Carrey) are funny and full of life. All the other scenes are not.
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40The heart of this movie isn't two sizes too small; it's just slightly misplaced.
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38Misfires on nearly every possible level.
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30This new feature has replaced the original's benevolence, taste and wit with cynicism, armpit humor and manic, desperately unfunny padding.
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25The dullest, clunkiest, big-budget fantasy since Steven Spielberg flattened Peter Pan in "Hook."
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20You will not like it on the screen, you will not like it -- not one scene!
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20So clogged with kooky gadgetry and special effects and glitter and goo that watching it feels like being gridlocked at Toys "R" Us during the Christmas rush.
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20Profoundly unnecessary -- cluttered, padded even at 90 minutes, indifferently narrated by Anthony Hopkins, and consistently misdirected by Ron Howard.
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20Shrill, strenuous and entirely without charm, Ron Howard's attempt at a Christmas classic is an elaborately wrapped empty box that will fool many people into buying it but will not greatly please its recipients.
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20It's not Christmas that's being stolen here. It's the spirit of Dr. Seuss.
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Positive: 25 out of 36
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Negative: 9 out of 36
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