Review of Scrooged (1988) by Compi24 — 05 Dec 2018
Like the Holiday festivities themselves, adaptations of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" come and go. Some are timeless, stick-to-your-ribs adaptations, while others are fun reinventions of the celebrated material in question.
This. . .kind of wants to be both? Born out of the premise that this was going to be a refreshing deconstruction of the classic Dickens tale, "Scrooged" definitely maintains a common streak of self-awareness.
But you can't in good conscience have a protagonist -- who's well accustomed to all of the tropes, twists, and turns of the Dickens story -- end up falling for the same tricks in the end. Ultimately, this ended up being more of an adherence to the original story than I preferred.
At least Bill Murray is eminently watchable.
This review of Scrooged (1988) was written by Compi24 on 05 Dec 2018.
Scrooged has generally received positive reviews.
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