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June 24, 2009
Christmas in July
I caught a preview of Disney's A Christmas Carol, directed by Robert Zemeckis, on Monday, and it looks pretty amazing. The capture animation is getting better and better, and there is detail work in what we saw that's pretty spectacular. Dickens' source material is dark, and it looks like Disney's not toning down that aspect of the story at all. Scrooge is menacing, the ghosts are scary, the palette is gloomy. Jim Carrey's Scrooge and the ghosts, Gary Oldman's playing a trifecta as Marley, Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim, and the whole thing just looks great, with even the 3-D effects seeming actually relevant rather than superfluous. My kids are going to be all over this one.
Disney is already marketing the hell out of this film, with a free (yes, free!) Christmas Carol Train Tour going on right now, perhaps coming to your town. The train tour gives you a sneak peek at the film, a behind-the-scenes look at how it was made, artifacts from the Charles Dickens museum, the opportunity to morph your own face, AND snow and carolers in July. Bah humbug, you say? Nah. If the finished film looks as good as the sneaks, it's going to be a fun time.
Posted by kvoynar at June 24, 2009 10:08 AM
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