Mitchell Glazer

Comedy

This is a very loose comedy based on Charles Dickens classic tale of Scrooge, the miserly old man that is visited by three ghosts on Christmas due to his terrible behavior towards other people throughout his life.

I stopped watching it after about thirty or so minutes when Bill Murray used God's name in vain twice in a short period of time.

Wow, I surely did not remember how bad of a film this is. Attempting to sidestep the serious ick factor prevalent in Hollywood blockbuster standards, even assuming anyone would make such a dubious attempt, does nothing to redeem this movie. I wonder, though: in contrast to other comedy farces, say Ferris Buehler's Day Off, with so many of those same ick elements in common, how does the latter film so clearly succeed despite them, while Scrooged rather serves as showcase.