How the Grinch Stole Christmas
User Score
6.6 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 76 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 51 out of 76
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 76
  3. Negative: 15 out of 76

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  1. SqueegieB.
    Jan 4, 2006
    2
    This movie was a massecre of the origional cartoon. never in my wildest dreames have i thought that i would see a good movie be slapdashed in such a way!!!!
  2. [Anonymous]
    Dec 11, 2005
    4
    Okay in itself, but the Grinch seems pedophilic... the Whos are obsessed, and the mayor is just wierd... It strays off the whole POINT of the book, and Cindy Lou is an annoying little stalker.
  3. MichaelC.
    Feb 3, 2001
    3
    Disappointing, cheesy, corny and useless. One of the worst films of 2000.
  4. RosieK.
    Jun 29, 2002
    2
    Disgusting, pretentious, film.
  5. B.J.
    Mar 28, 2004
    0
    Shockingly bad movie, despite a valiant attempt to save it by Carrey.
  6. JillS.
    May 15, 2005
    0
    An abomination. The opposite of the Seuss message plus they gave the grinch a love interest. ugh.
  7. MichelleP.
    Nov 3, 2002
    0
    I loved the book as a little girl (and still do) but this movie left me feeling cheated. And to think, Ron Howard who's the master of movies made this piece of trash. The humor was disgusting, the Whos were unlikable, and the Grinch himself was darker, meaner, and definetly much more evil than in the book, even when he turned "good" (?) he still didn't seem to have a heart. When he was a little kid, he didn't have a heart either! This is the worst movie of all-time.… Expand
  8. KatieP.
    Dec 22, 2003
    0
    Ugh. I hated this movie.
  9. JeffF.
    Jan 19, 2006
    3
    Very depressing. With one of the worst soundtracks of all time.
  10. MeM.
    Nov 22, 2001
    0
    YUCK!
  11. cameronmorewood
    Nov 15, 2012
    0
    Awful.
  12. uanime5
    Dec 24, 2012
    0
    A butchering of Seuss' story. The Whos are turned into people that care about nothing except presents and who has the best house, Whoville is bleak, the adults are all idiots who can be out debated by a child, the Grinch is more violent and destructive, there's needless padding and romance, there's toilet humour, and the entire message is lost.

    Sadly it seems that Hollywood can't turn a     short story into a movie without completely wrecking it. Sadder still is that there are people who believe that longer, stupider, better graphics, or has a celebrity automatically mean better.… Expand

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Metascore
46 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 29 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 29
  3. Negative: 8 out of 29
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    50
    I 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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  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    30
    This new feature has replaced the original's benevolence, taste and wit with cynicism, armpit humor and manic, desperately unfunny padding.
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  3. Slate
    Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    20
    Profoundly unnecessary -- cluttered, padded even at 90 minutes, indifferently narrated by Anthony Hopkins, and consistently misdirected by Ron Howard.
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