How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Watch: How the Grinch Stole Christmas

11/17/20001h 44m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ He puts the mean in green. ~

Overview:

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...

Director:

Ron Howard

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$123,000,000.00

Revenue:

$345,800,000.00

Key words:

new love
based on novel or book
holiday
christmas party
village
santa claus
surrealism
thief
public humiliation
christmas
surreal world

Cast

Jim Carrey

~ as ~

Grinch

Taylor Momsen

~ as ~

Cindy Lou Who

Jeffrey Tambor

~ as ~

Mayor Augustus Maywho

Christine Baranski

~ as ~

Martha May Whovier

Bill Irwin

~ as ~

Lou Lou Who

Molly Shannon

~ as ~

Betty Lou Who

Clint Howard

~ as ~

Whobris

Josh Ryan Evans

~ as ~

8-Year-Old Grinch

Mindy Sterling

~ as ~

Clarnella

Bryce Dallas Howard

~ as ~

Surprised Who

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Reviews (6)

Kamurai
Written 4 year(s) ago
7
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.
Kamurai
Written 4 year(s) ago
7
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.
P
Peter89Spencer
Written 4 year(s) ago
7
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).
Andre Gonzales
Written 2 year(s) ago
7
At first I didn't like this movie. It's one of my daughters favorites tho. So she would always want to watch a lot around Christmas time. Now I don't mind it and it's like a Christmas tradition for us now to watch this movie.
C
Courtney
Written 1 year(s) ago
7
This is my favorite version and has been my favorite since I was a small child.

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