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  The Flick Filosopher | Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Born on Christmas Eve in the manner of all Who babies, carried in on the wind, though of course this particular night it was "a strange wind," the baby Grinch is ignored at first because the fine people of Whoville are busy at, yes, a holiday wife-swap and general bacchanalia.
The Grinch, does, of course, still go through with his "wonderful, awful idea" to steal Christmas, and it should have actually worked this time, because all the avaricious, materialistic Whos seem to care about is their stuff.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas should have and could have been uncanny and disquieting in a Tim Burton way, leaving you feeling unsettled at human cruelty, but instead it candy-coats the petty, everyday awfulness of human beings.
www.flickfilosopher.com /christmas/flicks/grinch.shtml   (893 words)

  
 DR. SEUSS' HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS - DVDs
There is an early scene in which Carrey's Grinch reclines in a chair and considers his next move: it goes on about a second longer than it should, and that superfluous space feels like an eternity of hemming and hawing from the filmmakers.
Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas is disturbing in its cynicism: Internet gossipers didn't think Opie was up to the task of achieving a suitable malevolence and Ron Howard reacted, if I may armchair psychoanalyze, from the core of his manhood.
Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas.) At any rate, in an A/B comparison, the difference between the 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen and full-frame versions was inconsistent: shots that contain special effects--some 600 of them, totalling 43 minutes--were hard-matted and thus suffer vertical cropping at the full-frame aspect ratio (1.33:1).
filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/howthegrinchstolechristmas.htm   (1369 words)

  
 How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000): Jim Carrey, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Molly Shannon - PopMatters Film ...
The final face-off for the Mayor, the Grinch, and Martha is inevitable for the Grinch's redemption.
Discussing the Grinch in public, after Little Cindy Lou's persistent questions about "who" he is, the Mayor declares that the Grinch is "not a who, he is a what." Of course this sets him apart from the citizens of Who-ville — he is not a Who.
The Grinch falls into a distinctly subhuman category, equivalent in Who hierarchies to racist categorizations of "monkeys," "wetbacks," and "gooks." In one scene, as the Grinch wreaks havoc on Who-ville, he pretends to hail a taxi as it speeds past him, and he yells after it, "It's because I'm green, isn't it?!" Yep.
www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/h/how-the-grinch-stole-xmas.shtml   (1135 words)

  
 DVD Verdict Review - How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
As Christmas approaches he decides to make their lives miserable by taking away all the trappings of Christmas—their biggest holiday of the year.
In the end, the Whos celebrate Christmas anyway, since they know the true meaning of Christmas, and the Grinch is so moved that he becomes a nice person and they all live happily ever after.
Christine Baransky is a delight in her role as Martha May Whovier, the Grinch's long-lost old flame; it's just a shame that the character was included in the script in the first place.
www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/grinch2000.php   (1944 words)

  
 Christmas Movie Quotes: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The Grinch is a nasty creature that hates Christmas, and plots to steal it away from the Whos which he equally abhors.
The Grinch: Are you having a holly, jolly Christmas?
The Grinch: [whispering] Fine then, I'm just going to whisper from now on, so by the time the sound reverbarates off the walls, I won't be able to hear it.
www.juiceenewsdaily.com /1104/news/quotes_grinch.html?1132545495203   (943 words)

  
 TheMovieBoy Review: Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
As Christmas looms on the horizon, and the Whos anxiously buy loads of presents and work on their decorations, the Grinch becomes all the more restless to not let them get away with another holiday gone by without a hitch.
Making her way up to the Grinch's lair, Cindy Lou is not afraid of him, but amused, as she sees the sweetness just screaming to get out behind his cold, yellow eyes and monstrous exterior.
How Carrey endured such a daunting makeup process is anyone's guess, but he sure does bring life to a character he was born to play.
www.themovieboy.com /reviews/h/00_howthegrinch.htm   (1196 words)

  
 How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
The Scrooge-like Grinch disguises himself as Santa Claus and proceeds to steal all of Whoville's Christmas presents.
Published in 1957, Seuss' short story recounts the night the pinch-faced Grinch crept down from his cave and into the quaint town of Whoville, pilfering its citizen's Christmas accoutrements but failing to squelch their holiday spirit.
A little digging into his past uncovers a younger Grinch who was teased by his peers in school, and who never made a love connection with the woman of his dreams, the lovely Martha May Whovier (Christine Baranski).
www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=131108&buy=closed&Tab=reviews&CID=13   (804 words)

  
 Review: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Grinch" could have used a little less livening up (the simple rendition in the cartoon is preferable).
How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a fable; it is designed to be funny and uplifting but never scary, no matter how frightening the title character might believe himself to be.
Putting aside the question of whether the movie is necessary in the overall scheme of things, How the Grinch Stole Christmas represents a solid hour and a half of genuine family entertainment.
movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/h/how_grinch.html   (1033 words)

  
 How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
This stands for actor Clint Howard (Whobris), actor Jim Carrey (The Grinch), and director Ron Howard.
The story line was great, a few parts added like the history of the Grinch made it even better.
Ron Howard never misses a beat..But although there were a few ADULT comments and cleavage added, this is supped to be a kids or family show.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0170016   (392 words)

  
 Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas: Collector's Edition (2000)
The Grinch emerged as a serious hit during the 2000 holiday season, as it eventually took in $260 million and grabbed the spot as the top-grossing movie of the year; it also currently stands as the 14th biggest money-maker of all-time.
Until the Grinch decides to steal Christmas, the film is on its own, but the final act much more closely hews to the plotting of the original.
Initially the Grinch thought that they were cold and materialistic and that he could subvert their holiday celebration simply through the elimination of its tangible assets.
www.dvdmg.com /grinch2000.shtml   (5029 words)

  
 How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) - A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
A curmudgeonly recluse whose heart is two sizes too small, the Grinch resides in his cave high atop Mt. Crumpit with his dog Max, and plenty of lettuce juice, extra virgin castor oil and sour milk for sustenance.
Annoyed by the out-of-control Christmas festivities in Whoville, the Grinch conspires to deprive the Who's of their favorite holiday, but comes to learn that the spirit of Christmas goes much deeper than tinsel and toys.
The Grinch, more than anyone in the film, is appalled by the amount of garbage generated every year by the Whos.
www.hollywoodjesus.com /how_grinch_stole.htm   (2569 words)

  
 How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Soundtrack) by James Horner
Instead of the purely sinister Boris Karloff portrayal of The Grinch, turning from darkness to light, we have the schizophrenic, Jim Carrey.
I suppose Britney Spears was too busy with her Christmas special to contribute to this album.
All artwork from How the Grinch Stole Christmas is exclusive property of Interscope Records (c) 2000.
www.tracksounds.com /reviews/grinch.htm   (1281 words)

  
 The Popcorn Gallery: How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Christmas is part of every aspect of the Whos' lives.
The Grinch may be for Jim Carrey what the Genie in "Aladdin" was for Robin Williams: the ultimate expression of the actor's comic strengths.
Instead of simply telling the tale of a mean man who discovers joy in the spirit of Christmas, "The Grinch" is now more about accepting people's differences (although the original moral has not been totally dismissed, either).
www.physics.mun.ca /~sps/movies/TheGrinch.html   (1014 words)

  
 Review: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Meant surely as characterization, many minutes are filled with the Grinch grumping around his pad, his self-loathing as prominent as his loathing for the Whos who rejected him in his youth.
I suppose I should not hold a grudge against actors or athletes because of how many millions they carry away: it’s the teams and studios that are run by free agency and its cousin avarice.
HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS is a good film to see during the holiday season.
www.movie-page.com /reviews/g/grinch.htm   (681 words)

  
 Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) - MovieWeb
Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) - MovieWeb
This is the Grinch (Jim Carrey), and he is positively sick of those nog-sucking cheermongers.
Christmas is back and the Grinch plans to do something about this annoyingly-happy holiday...
www.movieweb.com /movie/grinch   (232 words)

  
 How the Grinch Stole Christmas Movie Review at Hollywood Video
After a chance run-in with the exiled green meanie, Cindy Lou believes that the answers she seeks can be found by reuniting the Grinch with the town (and the holiday) that never accepted him.
Even after the Grinch literally absconds with every vestige of the holiday in Whoville on Christmas Eve, Cindy Lou senses the goodness within him — but is that enough to free him from the world's worst case of seasonal affect disorder?
Despite its failings, The Grinch was the first holiday movie to hit it big in a long time (Tim Burton's stop-motion Nightmare Before Christmas was just too darned weird to ever attain success beyond its cult of admirers, and A Christmas Story only took off when it found its living-room audience).
www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=131108   (2072 words)

  
 The Grinch, aka Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
On Christmas Eve, he goes down into the town of Whoville, where everyone is excessively chirpy and has been shopping shopping shopping for Christmas.
The people of Whoville, with their claymation piggy noses, are inadvertently creepier than the Grinch (Ron Howard, in a DVD interview, gleefully exclaims how cute they are...
I was hoping for a live reenactment of a scene from the cartoon where the Grinch slithers under a carpet like a snake, only to have his head emerge with that evil smile on his face (gives me shivers just thinking about it).
www.moviepie.com /rent/grinch_2000.htm   (695 words)

  
 How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) (TV)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Goofs: Continuity: The "antlers" that the Grinch puts on Max's head at first has a branch on the back which is hidden behind his body when the weight of it causes the head to sink.
After the Grinch saws off the extra branches and Max straightens up, the branch is no longer there, even though it was not sawed off.
When it comes to christmas cartoons, this is one of only 2 cartoons that really captures the Christmas Spirit outside of the religious and social aspects of the holiday.
imdb.com /title/tt0060345   (335 words)

  
 Parent Previews: Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas
The Grinch is an ambitious attempt to translate the impossibly difficult images of Dr. Seuss' (Theodor Geisel's) popular book into a live-action movie.
Searching for a richer meaning to Christmas, she decides to nominate the mysterious Grinch as the Holiday Cheermeister of the annual Whobilation festival.
Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas was that the real meaning of Christmas had nothing to do with commercialism.
movies.go.com /parentpreviews/review?rid=517   (505 words)

  
 SoundtrackNet : How The Grinch Stole Christmas Soundtrack
"Grinch 2000" is a rap between Busta Rhymes and Jim Carey, and seems mismatched with the rest of the album - even though it's somewhat amusing.
Songs by Barenaked Ladies ("Green Christmas"), Ben Folds ("Lonely Christmas Eve"), Little Isidore and the Inquisitors ("Christmas of Love") and even N'Sync ("You Don't Have To Be Alone") all grace the album with their Christmas-themed lyrics.
The Faith Hill song, "Where Are You Christmas?" was so lyrical and moving that it didn't surprise me to learn that James Horner and lyricist William Jennings wrote it.
www.soundtrack.net /soundtracks/database?id=2671   (712 words)

  
 HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (2000): ChildCare Action Project (CAP) Media Analysis Report MAR20113
Before you read on, please remember that we are not here to try to tell you how wonderful a movie is or how you should feel a "message" or "point" is good for your kids.
There was a great deal of "adult-level" humor (as if these are supposed to be funny) such as the Grinch's face between the breasts of Martha, his sweetheart when children, and holding a twig of mistletoe on his posterior, aiming it at the Whoville crowd and saying kiss it [Luke 17:2].
This is the old Seuss story of how the Grinch stole Christmas, expanded to fill 106 minutes with whowhoggles and ziptanglers and dingleblingers.
www.capalert.com /capreports/howthegrinch.htm   (1457 words)

  
 How the Grinch Stole Christmas! - Wikiquote
And he, he himself, the Grinch, carved the roast beast.
Narrator: But do you know, the Grinch was so smart and so slick, that he thought up a lie and he thought it up quick.
Then he went up the chimney himself, the old liar, and the last thing he took was the log for their fire.
en.wikiquote.org /wiki/The_Grinch_who_stole_Christmas   (557 words)

  
 How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
But considering how fraught with peril an undertaking of this sort is, the artistic balance achieved is commendable.
Having witnessed a rare good side of the Grinch when he spared her from tragedy quite against his worse instincts, the hopeful cherub has dedicated herself to his redemption.
A Grinch depicted by anyone else would not be as petulant, perturbed, puckish or perversely problematic.
www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/How_Grinch_Christmas.html   (847 words)

  
 Amazon.com: How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Adding to the fun is a perfectly pitched back-story sequence (accompanied by Anthony Hopkins's narration) that explains how the Grinch came to hate Christmas, with a heart "two sizes too small." Ron Howard proves a fine choice for the director's chair with a keen balance of comedy, sentiment, and light-hearted Seussian whimsy.
She loves the Grinch because she sees in him what no other adults do, and she is strong.
Grinch no matter how simple and childish might seem it manages to touch me and it will be a certain movie I will let my children (to come!!) in the near future!!!
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005LOUS?v=glance   (2075 words)

  
 DigsMagazine.com | laze: flick pick: HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS
Cindy Lou discovers that the clue might lie with the mysterious hermit on the hill; after a run-in involving the grumpy green one and her father’s Christmas packaging machine, she launches an investigation into just why The Grinch left Whoville in the first place.
She fronts a one-Who campaign to convince the citizens of Whoville that the Grinch, being not so bad after all, should join the rest of the town for Christmas Day as their guest of honour.
When it comes down to it, the Grinch is as American as apple pie— and the holiday season just wouldn’t be the same without him.
www.digsmagazine.com /laze/flick_grinch2000.htm   (729 words)

  
 How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) News Archive
Grinch Versus Dinosaurs At The Oscars 15th January 2001
It's Official: The Grinch Is The Biggest Film Of The Year 21st December 2000
Grinch's Hold On Box Office Is Unbreakable 5th December 2000
www.cinema.com /film/3844/how-the-grinch-stole-christmas/news.phtml   (251 words)

  
 goatdog's movies - How the Grinch Stole Christmas, 2000
The padding introduces a halting anti-commercialism critique of the whole Christmas industry, in addition to an explanation of the Grinch's roots as a member of the Who tribe.
He moved to the top of a nearby mountian, where he became a boogeyman, a story used by parents to scare their kids and a handy way to dare one's friends to prove their courage.
This is completely against the character created by Suess, mind you; his Grinch would never willingly mingle with people, even if it was to sabotage their fun.
goatdog.com /moviePage.php?movieID=306   (524 words)

  
 How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
Howard knows how to combine emotion, comedy and action all the while remembering who is audience is… ALL of them.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas and everyone would kill for a good movie version of it.
After the success of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, Mrs.
hugereviews.com /Movies/how_the_grinch_stole_christmas.htm   (790 words)

  
 Cinema Confidential Review: Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
One Christmas, he decides that he will spoil it for all the people of Whoville by stealing all their Christmas goodies.
The Baby Grinch is adorable and in some circumstances, it was delightful for the film to uncover the origins of the Grinch.
I loved seeing how much depth one so young can give forth and on top of that she can also sing too.
www.cinecon.com /reviews/thegrinch.html   (716 words)

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