If you want to watch a christmas carol musical then muppets or vhs christmas carol are literally a million times better.
Every song sounds the same, the tone is confusing, the whole thing is shot really poorly, and they make big changes to the story for no reason.
The wigs are super bad. And the outfit on ghost of christmas past is so horrible.
The ghost of christmas present section starts off really bad.
There is potential, but its just not enough.
I almost wish like a ballet there was no narration, just the scenes and dancing. Though the dancing was very twirl heavy and lacking anything of real interest in most scenes.
In some places bad voice acting.
The pacing was a mess with unneccessary flash back and flash forwards.
The set and lighting design were beautiful. I did like the narrative device of the family telling the story of a Christmas Carol.
This does make me want Martin Freeman to play Bob Cratchit in different adaption of a Christmas Carol.
Not as good the second time definitely felt all the flaws. Poor writing, bad pacing, not enough of the main villian, and not enough of the animatronics. Though I will say Mathew Lillard is killing it especially at the end of the film he is criminally underutilized.
All that being said I do look forward to the sequel as a long time fan of the series and I hope they attempt to make improvements to at the very least the writing and at least attempt to make it a horror film, preferably a scary one.
