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How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

PG 104 minutes EN Family , Comedy , Fantasy
He puts the mean in green.
The Grinch decides to rob Whoville of Christmas - but a dash of kindness from little Cindy Lou Who and her family may be enough to melt his heart...
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Jim Carrey
Grinch
Taylor Momsen
Cindy Lou Who
Jeffrey Tambor
Mayor Augustus Maywho
Christine Baranski
Martha May Whovier
Bill Irwin
Lou Lou Who
Molly Shannon
Betty Lou Who
Clint Howard
Whobris
Josh Ryan Evans
8-Year-Old Grinch
Mindy Sterling
Clarnella
Bryce Dallas Howard
Surprised Who
Lacey Kohl
Christina Whoterberry

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The most positive review

Really good watch, will eventually watch again, and can recommend, but less so for younger audiences.
I never remembered all the weird adult humor in this, it is usually just the charming grinchiness of Jim Carey's overacting that sticks with me, and maybe the Christmas spirit of Mary Lou Who.
The movie manages to ride this wonderfully line between keeping the spirit of the book (even rhyming at times) and being new and refreshing, but it does do that by playing to the adults that would have read the book as a child rather than endearing a new generation of children, but I think they intended to try to do both.
Jim Carey embodies the Grinch like no one else possibly could (I think Mike Myers proved that in "The Cat in the Hat"), and that is the majority of this so if you don't enjoy him, then you won't enjoy this movie. I do think they added some refreshing character interactions, though some of the execution is much better than others.
While it is far from a perfect movie, my biggest gripe is their stupid noses: it seriously bothers me the entire movie. It bothers me more than them dressing the Grinch, which points out that he is naked a LOT with his "co lead" being a young girl: you can see it just distracts from the spirit of the movie.
I don't think that everyone is going to love this movie, but it's hard to imagine that people will hate it.

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The most negative review

I'm not gonna lie, this version of the Grinch scared the crap out of me when I was a kid!
But as I got older I started to get use to it.
The trick was to just listen to the whole thing without looking at it and gradually (each year take a peak).

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Production companies: Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, Brian Grazer Productions
Production countries: United States of America
Budget: $123,000,000
Revenue: $345,800,000

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PG (Some material may not be suitable for children under 10. These films may contain some mild language, crude/suggestive humor, scary moments and/or violence. No drug content is present. There are a few exceptions to this rule. A few racial insults may also be heard.)

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