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| | A Weirdo, a Rat, and a Humbug |
 | | Film versions of Ebenezer Scrooge’s redemption have varied from straight attempts to show Victorian England, such as A Christmas Carol (1938) and Scrooge 1951, to modern adaptations, such as An American Christmas Carol (1979) and Bill Murray’s Scrooged (1988), to so-called "alternative" versions, such as the recent western version, Ebenezer (1997), and those with Mr. |
| | Roger Ebert notes that, as in the earlier Muppet films, viewers know they are watching puppets but are not "reminded of their limited fields of movement." Instead, "they seem to belong in Victorian London." Perhaps this occurs because of the image of seeming immobility that the popular mind often connects with the Victorian Age. |
| | Although some Muppet and film fans—including this author— reacted favorably to this production, other die-hard Muppet followers felt the characters were straying too far from their roots (although Hutchinson reveals that the idea for this film was first proposed by Jim Henson before his death [33]). |
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