One of his conditions for accepting the role was what he would play it 100% serious. No cheesy muppet lines, no 4th wall breaking, no acknowledgement that his scene partners where not real people. This, imho, is what made the whole thing come together and make it so timeless.
@@Tommy57G The two best performances in Muppet adaptations are Michael Caine here and Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island. Michael Caine treats all the Muppets as fellow live actors and Tim Curry treats himself as a fellow Muppet.
I am 50 years old and still I sit down and watch this movie WHENEVER it is televised or Streamed or Shown. I love it. Thanx for sharing it with us, Addie.
The best explanation that I've heard about Michael Cane's performance is that he considered the entire crew (including the Muppets) as real actors and played it completely straight. In Contrast, with Muppet Treasure Island, Tim Curry's performance is as if he and everyone else were Muppets, which is why he has this zany madcap energy. (Especially during the Professional Pirate song) Both films are wonderful tributes to both actors at the height of their abilities.
Glad to see you reacted to the version with "When Love is Gone" restored, it was originally cut for being "too boring" and "too sad", which always struck me as a bad move. It works so much better with that song put back in, it gives the end of Scrooge and Belle's relationship way more weight, and it actually rhymes with the closing song, a reprise that's appropriately titled "The Love We Found"
Too boring? I never heard that reason. Only the one where it’ll make kids too sad yet Disney had many movies prior that had sad scenes (Bambi’s mom’ death, Todd in The Fox and the Hound having to be left in the forest, etc.). I am glad it was restored but it should be the primary version on Disney+ and not an extra
As a kid watching this on video, I was TOTALLY bored about a girl breaking up with her boyfriend via song for 10 minutes without a muppet in sight. Now, as an adult, I love the song. The lyrics, like the lyrics of all the songs, are outstanding. Written by Paul Williams.
Thanks for posting this comment i can enjoy the first part now with more joy and less anxiety than usual. I never knew it was cut until i put the vhs on the shelf and got the dvd in 2020
Unashamedly, still my favourite adaptation, and I'm a 45 year old man. It completely respects the original text, almost slavishly at points, but flawlessly mixes it with the joyous yet mildly subversive nature of the Muppets in general. The songs are wonderful. Michael Caine gives his all, everything just comes together beautifully. But most of all, this is the first major Muppet project after Jim Henson died, and his son Brian took the reigns and helmed a classic that everyone can enjoy - it was as much a labour of love as it was a statement that Jim's legacy would continue, and was in very safe hands. You can feel the warmth radiate from this - it's a very special movie.
@@adaddinsane I know, it's just whenever I get asked what my favourite adaptation of the story is, and I say this one - I get some very strange looks! Meh, it's their loss!
The single hardest part of this is watching Kermit - cheerful, optimistic, irrepressible, Kermit the Frog - express shattering grief so well. For so many of us who grew up with the Muppets, it's watching a best friend struggle with the loss of their child and having absolutely no idea what to say or do.
Such a great movie. Michael Caine is fantastic as Scrooge. His insistence on playing it seriously and treating the material with the proper respect truly paid off. Wonderful.
It's one of the closer adaptations of the novel. A few key moments were modified for a children's audience. This is our must-watch for Christmas morning.
And because of Gonzo narrates the story as Charles Dickens, the movie includes a lot of narration from the book that gets lost in most (if not all other) adapation due to the lack of a narrator.
Michael Caine, the ever serious classical trained actor, insisted he would envision the Muppets as fellow trained actors. Tim Curry on the other hand (see "Muppet Treasure Island" highly recommend!) envisioned himself as a fellow Muppet when acting in that one.
A sad fact about this film is that it was the first film without any involvement of Jim Henson (the creator of the Muppets) as he had passed away two years prior. The scene where Kermit says goodbye to Tiny Tim also represents the company saying goodbye to Jim.
Yes, that was the thing that was kind of a bummer… while Brian Henson did a decent job of keeping the Muppets going after his father’s death, he didn’t do a great job. Because this and Treasure Island were the only good Muppet movies and then Muppets from Space was terrible
Thank you for watching the full version; I'm glad you enjoyed it! FYI the song that was cut was Belle's, When Love Is Gone. It just cuts from, "You did, once." to Rizzo weeping. It feels unearned without the song making us really feel Scrooge's sadness. I'm glad they finally remastered it so we can see it in context and in HD/4K.
A couple of character name Easter eggs: The rat’s name is Rizzo, which comes from “Ratso” Rizzo in the movie _Midnight Cowboy._ There is only one dead Marley in Dickens’ version, so they needed another name so they could use the pair of Statler and Waldorf. The name that they came up with is Robert Marley, a.k.a. Bob Marley - and everything was alright, man. 🇯🇲
12:50 Seeing Addie’s reaction to this just proves how important this scene is. If you’re reading this, Addie, this is the portion they removed from the theatrical cut. It’s such a beautiful, painful, but important scene 🥲
This version does a lot of things that no other version does: For instance, when Marley is delivering their warning, the chains are actively trying to pull him back into the void, a reference to a note earlier in the story where it's mentioned that doomed souls cannot stay in one place too long. Marley is doing something he shouldn't, taking a chance to save his friend, as the chains of the after life struggle to reign him back in
Gorge C Scott's - a Christmas carol is one of the best adaptions of the story. It really paints the picture of a lost , broken-hearted man on his way to reclamation in a way that the others don't in my humble opinion
A favorite. I love that Michael Caine accepted the role with the understanding he "WOULD NOT be doing anything muppety", and tested his own ability to play it seriously. haha,
My favorite version of this story, and this is exactly how the Muppets work best, with the Muppets playing characters, some meta winking/nodding at the camera, and the few human actors taking everything perfectly seriously.
The time has come to once again be the person to say; Of all the adaptations of Christmas Carol, this version has most lines quoted verbatim from the novel
This is my #1 Christmas movie! It's the one I watch every single year to ring in the season! My personal favorite Muppet is Rowlf the Dog. (He was put into semi-retirement after Jim Henson passed because he was one of Jim's favorites as well. He only made a brief cameo in this movie playing the piano at Fozziwig's Christmas party.) If you watch some of the Muppet stuff before this movie came out, though, you'll see that he always had a very dry wit and mischievous streak, and he was just loveable. :)
Michael Caine said he would approach the role with the utmost seriousness, vowing to perform as if he were on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, i think thats what made it better.
I remember when THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL came out. It was the first time in 2 Christmas' that I was able to watch a Christmas movie. My wife had died 2 years before and she LOVED Christmas 🎄. This a some other Christmas movies have a special place in my heart.❤ Thanks Addie for a great heartfelt response.
One of the most faithful adaptations of the book, and the Dickens family’s favorite 🥰 Also a favorite of my family’s. We all love this movie. It’s got something for everyone 😃 Merry Christmas, Addie! 🎄 ☺️
It's all the better for most of their lines being taken almost verbatim from the book. Makes you appreciate Dickens' writing all the more. Probably the best Christmas Carol adaptation.
Love this movie. I break out the VCR each year to watch the old VHS I have. Really happy that you found the full version. Belles song is beautiful, and heartbreaking. I get a lump in my throat every time I hear it. Fave muppet is Rizzo, as I am a fellow food lover. (With the Swedish chef coming in a close second.) Great reaction Addie, and hope you had a merry Christmas!
@@STOCKHOLM07 Yes it was a sacrilege - especially as musically the final song is based upon Belle's song and therefore points the change from minor to major - from sad to happy.
Caine did a fabulous job portraying the change in Scrooge throughout. Most adaptations don't really get that right. This is the absolute best adaptation of the root story i know of.
Other must-watch versions of A Christmas Carrol (which you can save for next year, if you haven't seen them already): The George C. Scott version The Patrick Stewart version The Albert Finney version (musical, under the title "Scrooge") Other versions include: Alister Sims version (IIRC, the first ever theatrical, full-length movie version) Henry Winkler version (modified, takes place in America, characters are renamed, and other details changed in kind of interesting ways) Guy Pierce version (TV mini-series - be warned, this is a darker, more disturbing version, takes a few liberties with the original story)
Jacob and Robert (Bob) Marley lol Michael Caine is great in everything he's in. I recommend "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels", which he costars with Steve Martin.
12:44 - this is the song / scene that was cut. Which it really never should have been. 25:43 - If you want to see other adaptations and iterations of this story, you might like to check out ‘The Man Who Invented Christmas’. - it’s about Charles Dickens and how he came to write A Christmas Carol.(bonus: Christopher Plummer as Scrooge!)
The music was a result of Paul Williams, a very prolific and talented artist... look him up... he was also Enos "Little Enos" Burdette in the movie Smokey and the Bandit.
I truly believe that A Christmas Carol is one of the greatest stories ever told. I dare say it is a perfect story, and the ONLY way you could ever improve upon it is with Muppets. I consider this film an absolute masterpiece.
This is my favorite Christmas movie! I just read A Christmas Carol for the first time and I couldn't help but picture everyone in the book as Muppets! 🤣🎄
Yes, this movie and Treasure Island were only good Muppet movies after Jim Henson died. Muppets from Space was terrible… and it took 12 years to get another Muppet movie off the ground
I will stand by the fact that not only is this the most fun retelling of Charles Dickens masterpiece, but also the most heartfelt and genuine… my family watches this every year and every year, I laugh and cry at the same jokes and emotional beats. Glad you enjoyed it, I’m always happy seeing the Muppets get the love they deserve.
Oh one other thing. Back in the 70's & 80's when George Lucas was creating the "Empire Strikes Back" movie. He went to Jim Henson and Frank Oz to create Yoda and Frank Oz is the voice of Yoda. So technically Yoda is part of the Muppet family lol.
I think you should really make an effort to see the 1960's animated television special, Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol. It's only an hour long (less with the commercials cut out), but it covers all the main points, and it has the best songs of any musical version of the story that I've seen, as well as lots of great gags, and it really should be regarded as a classic.
Scrooge being given his first Christmas present in decades is such a sweet moment 🧣 Also an interesting touch that the scarf seems to grow from Muppet-size to human-size, in line with how the spirit of Christmas and goodness grows on him continuously.
I'm glad you watched the full version, in the other version Belle's song is cut out which makes the transition to Rizzo crying really abrupt and weird, and beyond that it's the moment that breaks Scrooge and opens him up to changing and I think it's some of Michael Caine's best acting in the film, especially with the implication behind the fact that after all these years he remembers the words to the song she sang. On top of all that the finale song is a positively reframed reprise of that song. With all this it makes no sense that it was ever cut and I'm so glad they finally put it back it and that you watched that version.
This easily is in my top 5 Christmas movies all time. I fall asleep to it every other night switching off with The Man Who Invented Christmas. That by the was is another great movie. The Great Gonzo was always my favorite Muppet.
"God save my little broken body!" Rizzo being the punching bag of Muppet Christmas Carol will always get a laugh out of me. He and Gonzo are my favorite part of MCC. The meta layer of the narrator watching the story with the audience is so good, and makes Rizzo's inclusion all the funnier. "Thank you for making me a part of this..." When you know more about the Muppets (specifically Gonzo 😉) you'll understand how dirty the exchage of "I landed on a hot goose!" "Lucky you..." is 😳
Scrooge's first recognized act of kindness was his contribution to the charity and the 2 characters. One gives a red scarf as a present, and that scarf adds color to Scrooge's black clothing. The color is his move into the light as he emerges from darkness.
Statler and Waldorf are probably my favorite muppets even though they usually have a small role. I love how they added an extra Marley (Robert or "Bob") so the two could heckle Scrooge together. That being said every Muppet has their own personality and one of the best things about them is discovering which ones you relate the most to.
My favorite Muppet is Kermit. The originally deleted song "When Love is Gone" was very heartbreaking to a point where Rizzo started crying as Gonzo started comforting him. I almost choked up during that moment. So at 13:03, I'm with Rizzo too, Addie.
Now that you've seen this movie, alongside Muppet Classic Theater (1994) & The Muppets (2011), you should definitely watch ALL of the other Muppets movies including The Muppet Movie (1979), The Great Muppet Caper (1981), The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984), Muppet Treasure Island (1996), Muppets from Space (1999), and Muppets Most Wanted (2014). #MoreMuppetsForAddieCounts
There are a couple of little gags in the signs on the shops in the background during the final sequence. One of them is "Statler and Waldorf's", and those are the names of the muppets who played Jacob and Robert (Bob) Marley. Another is "Mickelwhite's". That's Michael Caine's original last name before he changed it. I highly recommend watching the original classic "The Muppet Movie". There are also some great episodes of the original TV series "The Muppet Show" available to stream. They even had one guest-starring Mark Hamill shortly after the first Star Wars came out, with the entire show themed around the movie. Musical guests included such stars as Debbie Harry and Alice Cooper.
This is one of the best versions of the story. The only bits that are missing are Scrooge's sister who we see in the past and is the mother of his nephew Fred and the children hiding under the robe of the Ghost of Christmas Present - Want and Ignorance
There are so many excellent Christmas Carol adaptations, and this is one of the best. Others? The 1999 "A Christmas Carol" starring Patrick Stewart is great. So is the 1970 musical film "Scrooge", which has a catchy song that I still think of to this day.
I've always loved watching the Muppets. Addie, if you liked this movie then I would love to suggest watching "The Muppet Movie" from 1979 and try watching any of the episodes of the original "Muppet Show" from the 70's. One thing that I like about the Muppets is that whenever There's a large group of them in a scene, the puppeteers are having their characters doing crazy funny things in the background to try to draw your attention to them so keep an eye on what's going on in the background because you'll probably see a lot of stuff that will have you laughing your backside off lol.
Muppet Treasure Island is one of the funniest Muppet movies ever. In the opening they sing a song about how evil the pirate crew that starts the whole thing is and there's a line that goes, 'every man aboard would'a killed his mate for a bag of ginnies or a piece of eight.' I got curious and looked up what a piece of eight would be worth in todays money....about 13 dollars. So they'd kill one of their own for less than 20 bucks.
Addie, this is my favorite Christmas movie; we watch it every year on Christmas Eve! And i always get choked up. One of the neatest things is that it is virtually the most accurate historical costuming to the period in a movie, including what the muppets are wearing! Its mind-blowing, the details!
This was hands-down, from Lionel Barrymore to Patrick Stewart & onwards, my favourite performance of Scrooge and my favourite adaptation of A Christmas Carol. There are whole swaths of narration and dialog lifted straight out of the book presumably because the writers knew they were never going to top Dickens' prose. And then there are so many ways you can interpret and play Ebenezer; I'd seen Scrooge the miserly capitalist and Scrooge the cruel misanthrope, but Michael Caine's was the first time I'd seen Scrooge the broken-hearted loner who finds his redemption in letting his heart break one last time - this time breaking open. So good!
Hey it’s Addie and today I shall be watching the greatest adaptation of a Christmas carol so sit back and watch one of the greatest Christmas movies of all time.. My response I’m getting the pop corn and turning giddy with muppetness
My Favorite Christmas Movie!!!! Also, the cut song was my favorite song of the movie and was very angry when I got it on blu-ray only to find it missing from the movie. I think you are the only reactor that I have seen actually use the full length version and it makes me so happy that you did.
The reason there’s two Marleys is an Easter Egg: Robert Marley shortened is Bob. 🇯🇲 I guess they couldn’t name him Bob to distinguish him from Bob Cratchit.
When the professor was like the american way (bc in the muppets canon he's all about america) so the inside joke, they had to correct him for the movie lol. Also when he said don't tip the driver 😂
I got in trouble at our last day at work lunch before we leaver for the break over Christmas & New Year. When my boss got up to speak I started singing "It's Marley and Marley". I found it hilarious but most others didn't.
Loved the reaction. Thank you for watching the full version. The Belle/Scrooge duet is such an important part to the story and an emotional moment. Favourite muppets? Animal and Beaker for me.
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Michael Cane playing this as serious as any role he’s ever played
One of his conditions for accepting the role was what he would play it 100% serious. No cheesy muppet lines, no 4th wall breaking, no acknowledgement that his scene partners where not real people. This, imho, is what made the whole thing come together and make it so timeless.
@@Tommy57G The two best performances in Muppet adaptations are Michael Caine here and Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island. Michael Caine treats all the Muppets as fellow live actors and Tim Curry treats himself as a fellow Muppet.
agreed
In any comedy duo, the straight man is the real talent. That's the hard part.
Leslie Nielsen and Buster Keaton were their own straight man.
Michael Caine/Steve Martin-- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, hilarious movie!
I am 50 years old and still I sit down and watch this movie WHENEVER it is televised or Streamed or Shown. I love it. Thanx for sharing it with us, Addie.
Michael Caine didn't *_have to_* go as hard as he did, in a muppet movie for kids - but he damn well *_did,_* and bless him for doing so!
The best explanation that I've heard about Michael Cane's performance is that he considered the entire crew (including the Muppets) as real actors and played it completely straight.
In Contrast, with Muppet Treasure Island, Tim Curry's performance is as if he and everyone else were Muppets, which is why he has this zany madcap energy. (Especially during the Professional Pirate song)
Both films are wonderful tributes to both actors at the height of their abilities.
Glad to see you reacted to the version with "When Love is Gone" restored, it was originally cut for being "too boring" and "too sad", which always struck me as a bad move. It works so much better with that song put back in, it gives the end of Scrooge and Belle's relationship way more weight, and it actually rhymes with the closing song, a reprise that's appropriately titled "The Love We Found"
Musically connected as well
Too boring? I never heard that reason. Only the one where it’ll make kids too sad yet Disney had many movies prior that had sad scenes (Bambi’s mom’ death, Todd in The Fox and the Hound having to be left in the forest, etc.). I am glad it was restored but it should be the primary version on Disney+ and not an extra
Yeah Katzenburg was a moron by making them remove it
As a kid watching this on video, I was TOTALLY bored about a girl breaking up with her boyfriend via song for 10 minutes without a muppet in sight.
Now, as an adult, I love the song. The lyrics, like the lyrics of all the songs, are outstanding. Written by Paul Williams.
Thanks for posting this comment i can enjoy the first part now with more joy and less anxiety than usual. I never knew it was cut until i put the vhs on the shelf and got the dvd in 2020
Unashamedly, still my favourite adaptation, and I'm a 45 year old man. It completely respects the original text, almost slavishly at points, but flawlessly mixes it with the joyous yet mildly subversive nature of the Muppets in general. The songs are wonderful. Michael Caine gives his all, everything just comes together beautifully.
But most of all, this is the first major Muppet project after Jim Henson died, and his son Brian took the reigns and helmed a classic that everyone can enjoy - it was as much a labour of love as it was a statement that Jim's legacy would continue, and was in very safe hands. You can feel the warmth radiate from this - it's a very special movie.
My favourite and I'm 65. This is not an ageist issue but a matter of excellent taste.
@@adaddinsane I know, it's just whenever I get asked what my favourite adaptation of the story is, and I say this one - I get some very strange looks! Meh, it's their loss!
The single hardest part of this is watching Kermit - cheerful, optimistic, irrepressible, Kermit the Frog - express shattering grief so well. For so many of us who grew up with the Muppets, it's watching a best friend struggle with the loss of their child and having absolutely no idea what to say or do.
Such a great movie. Michael Caine is fantastic as Scrooge. His insistence on playing it seriously and treating the material with the proper respect truly paid off. Wonderful.
It's one of the closer adaptations of the novel. A few key moments were modified for a children's audience. This is our must-watch for Christmas morning.
We do it on Christmas Eve. After all, there's only one more sleep 'till Christmas.
And because of Gonzo narrates the story as Charles Dickens, the movie includes a lot of narration from the book that gets lost in most (if not all other) adapation due to the lack of a narrator.
Michael Caine, the ever serious classical trained actor, insisted he would envision the Muppets as fellow trained actors. Tim Curry on the other hand (see "Muppet Treasure Island" highly recommend!) envisioned himself as a fellow Muppet when acting in that one.
Both methods were the correct one for their respective productions.
A sad fact about this film is that it was the first film without any involvement of Jim Henson (the creator of the Muppets) as he had passed away two years prior. The scene where Kermit says goodbye to Tiny Tim also represents the company saying goodbye to Jim.
Yes, that was the thing that was kind of a bummer… while Brian Henson did a decent job of keeping the Muppets going after his father’s death, he didn’t do a great job. Because this and Treasure Island were the only good Muppet movies and then Muppets from Space was terrible
Thank you for watching the full version; I'm glad you enjoyed it!
FYI the song that was cut was Belle's, When Love Is Gone. It just cuts from, "You did, once." to Rizzo weeping. It feels unearned without the song making us really feel Scrooge's sadness. I'm glad they finally remastered it so we can see it in context and in HD/4K.
A couple of character name Easter eggs: The rat’s name is Rizzo, which comes from “Ratso” Rizzo in the movie _Midnight Cowboy._ There is only one dead Marley in Dickens’ version, so they needed another name so they could use the pair of Statler and Waldorf. The name that they came up with is Robert Marley, a.k.a. Bob Marley - and everything was alright, man. 🇯🇲
Gonzo is my all-time fav Muppet
12:50 Seeing Addie’s reaction to this just proves how important this scene is. If you’re reading this, Addie, this is the portion they removed from the theatrical cut. It’s such a beautiful, painful, but important scene 🥲
This version does a lot of things that no other version does: For instance, when Marley is delivering their warning, the chains are actively trying to pull him back into the void, a reference to a note earlier in the story where it's mentioned that doomed souls cannot stay in one place too long. Marley is doing something he shouldn't, taking a chance to save his friend, as the chains of the after life struggle to reign him back in
That is diffrent from the book though in the book he says he's sat many days next to scrooge but scrooge has never before heard him.
12:46
Ah good, you’re watching the version of the movie with this song!
🥰
Gorge C Scott's - a Christmas carol is one of the best adaptions of the story. It really paints the picture of a lost , broken-hearted man on his way to reclamation in a way that the others don't in my humble opinion
A favorite. I love that Michael Caine accepted the role with the understanding he "WOULD NOT be doing anything muppety", and tested his own ability to play it seriously. haha,
One of the things this movie does well is remind audience members that, even though this is a Christmas movie, it is also a ghost story.
My favorite version of this story, and this is exactly how the Muppets work best, with the Muppets playing characters, some meta winking/nodding at the camera, and the few human actors taking everything perfectly seriously.
Unironically one of the best depictions of A Christmas Carol
I watch this classic every year! I love it so much!!!
The time has come to once again be the person to say;
Of all the adaptations of Christmas Carol, this version has most lines quoted verbatim from the novel
This is my #1 Christmas movie! It's the one I watch every single year to ring in the season!
My personal favorite Muppet is Rowlf the Dog. (He was put into semi-retirement after Jim Henson passed because he was one of Jim's favorites as well. He only made a brief cameo in this movie playing the piano at Fozziwig's Christmas party.) If you watch some of the Muppet stuff before this movie came out, though, you'll see that he always had a very dry wit and mischievous streak, and he was just loveable. :)
I love how Michael Caine took this role because all his roles to this point weren't suitable for his daughter and he wanted to show her what he did.
Michael Caine said he would approach the role with the utmost seriousness, vowing to perform as if he were on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, i think thats what made it better.
I remember when THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL came out. It was the first time in 2 Christmas' that I was able to watch a Christmas movie. My wife had died 2 years before and she LOVED Christmas 🎄. This a some other Christmas movies have a special place in my heart.❤ Thanks Addie for a great heartfelt response.
One of the most faithful adaptations of the book, and the Dickens family’s favorite 🥰 Also a favorite of my family’s. We all love this movie. It’s got something for everyone 😃 Merry Christmas, Addie! 🎄 ☺️
This movie is a lifelong staple in my family; my sister got me a shirt that says "Light the lamp, not the rat", and we quote it all the time
It's all the better for most of their lines being taken almost verbatim from the book. Makes you appreciate Dickens' writing all the more. Probably the best Christmas Carol adaptation.
Love this movie. I break out the VCR each year to watch the old VHS I have. Really happy that you found the full version. Belles song is beautiful, and heartbreaking. I get a lump in my throat every time I hear it.
Fave muppet is Rizzo, as I am a fellow food lover. (With the Swedish chef coming in a close second.)
Great reaction Addie, and hope you had a merry Christmas!
Yeah, I was super surprised to hear that Belle's song had been cut. I had no idea, because I only watch it on VHS every year.
@@STOCKHOLM07 Yes it was a sacrilege - especially as musically the final song is based upon Belle's song and therefore points the change from minor to major - from sad to happy.
That was the version we got in the uk in the cinema. I was really confused when I saw it cut out on later versions.
What's a VCR?
@@SCP.343Maybe I should explain Google, which would allow you to look it up and many other things you’re unaware of 🙄
Caine did a fabulous job portraying the change in Scrooge throughout. Most adaptations don't really get that right. This is the absolute best adaptation of the root story i know of.
I'm so glad you were able to watch the long version. I have no idea why anyone would want to cut that heartbreaking song with Belle.
I watched this movie for the first time myself on Christmas Eve, it really is a great and cute movie!
Other must-watch versions of A Christmas Carrol (which you can save for next year, if you haven't seen them already):
The George C. Scott version
The Patrick Stewart version
The Albert Finney version (musical, under the title "Scrooge")
Other versions include:
Alister Sims version (IIRC, the first ever theatrical, full-length movie version)
Henry Winkler version (modified, takes place in America, characters are renamed, and other details changed in kind of interesting ways)
Guy Pierce version (TV mini-series - be warned, this is a darker, more disturbing version, takes a few liberties with the original story)
Jacob and Robert (Bob) Marley lol
Michael Caine is great in everything he's in. I recommend "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels", which he costars with Steve Martin.
12:44 - this is the song / scene that was cut.
Which it really never should have been.
25:43 - If you want to see other adaptations and iterations of this story, you might like to check out ‘The Man Who Invented Christmas’. - it’s about Charles Dickens and how he came to write A Christmas Carol.(bonus: Christopher Plummer as Scrooge!)
So happy you got the complete version! It was a complete travesty that they cut out "When is Gone."
The music was a result of Paul Williams, a very prolific and talented artist... look him up... he was also Enos "Little Enos" Burdette in the movie Smokey and the Bandit.
This is definitely one pf my favorite Christmas movies. I love how Michael Caine plays his role with the Muppets as if they're real people.
I truly believe that A Christmas Carol is one of the greatest stories ever told. I dare say it is a perfect story, and the ONLY way you could ever improve upon it is with Muppets. I consider this film an absolute masterpiece.
one of my all times favorites.
Very good that you got the full length one; it adds so much to the story and very few reactors have it. Probably my favorite Christmas movie!
Same
This is my favorite Christmas movie! I just read A Christmas Carol for the first time and I couldn't help but picture everyone in the book as Muppets! 🤣🎄
Muppet Treasure Island is such a fun movie! I think you'd love it!
Yes, this movie and Treasure Island were only good Muppet movies after Jim Henson died. Muppets from Space was terrible… and it took 12 years to get another Muppet movie off the ground
@@nsasupporter7557Muppets from Space was an underrated gem.
Yes, I've always found the first spirit creepy.
I will stand by the fact that not only is this the most fun retelling of Charles Dickens masterpiece, but also the most heartfelt and genuine… my family watches this every year and every year, I laugh and cry at the same jokes and emotional beats. Glad you enjoyed it, I’m always happy seeing the Muppets get the love they deserve.
As much as I love It's A Wonderful Life, _this_ is the film I must watch with my dad each year for it to feel like Christmas!
Oh one other thing. Back in the 70's & 80's when George Lucas was creating the "Empire Strikes Back" movie. He went to Jim Henson and Frank Oz to create Yoda and Frank Oz is the voice of Yoda. So technically Yoda is part of the Muppet family lol.
I think you should really make an effort to see the 1960's animated television special, Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol. It's only an hour long (less with the commercials cut out), but it covers all the main points, and it has the best songs of any musical version of the story that I've seen, as well as lots of great gags, and it really should be regarded as a classic.
You should definitely do Muppet Treasure Island as well. It's another phenomenal adaptation.
Easily one of my favorite Michael Cane performances especially the Christmas past song 😢 so much emotion.
My favorite christmas movie.
Scrooge being given his first Christmas present in decades is such a sweet moment 🧣 Also an interesting touch that the scarf seems to grow from Muppet-size to human-size, in line with how the spirit of Christmas and goodness grows on him continuously.
I'm glad you watched the full version, in the other version Belle's song is cut out which makes the transition to Rizzo crying really abrupt and weird, and beyond that it's the moment that breaks Scrooge and opens him up to changing and I think it's some of Michael Caine's best acting in the film, especially with the implication behind the fact that after all these years he remembers the words to the song she sang. On top of all that the finale song is a positively reframed reprise of that song. With all this it makes no sense that it was ever cut and I'm so glad they finally put it back it and that you watched that version.
12:47 This is the song that was cut, but the closing song is an optimistic reprise of the heart-breaking original, so it's really important.
I watch this every Christmas eve with my siblings. Hands down the BEST adaptation of the story.
Thank you for watching the full version. The version without the song just doesn't work as well. This is my favorite Christmas movie ever.
I grew up on The Muppet Show. It was pure chaos and had great human guests each episode like Mark Hamill.
This easily is in my top 5 Christmas movies all time. I fall asleep to it every other night switching off with The Man Who Invented Christmas. That by the was is another great movie. The Great Gonzo was always my favorite Muppet.
"Light the lamp not the rat! Light the lamp not the rat!"
Best line.
A festive holiday classic, vital viewing for all involved in the Christmas season.
I never noticed the wordplay before. The ghost of Christmas PRESENT is ABSENT minded. Hilarious.
"God save my little broken body!"
Rizzo being the punching bag of Muppet Christmas Carol will always get a laugh out of me.
He and Gonzo are my favorite part of MCC. The meta layer of the narrator watching the story with the audience is so good, and makes Rizzo's inclusion all the funnier. "Thank you for making me a part of this..."
When you know more about the Muppets (specifically Gonzo 😉) you'll understand how dirty the exchage of "I landed on a hot goose!" "Lucky you..." is 😳
LIGHT HE LAMP NOT THE RAT
Scrooge's first recognized act of kindness was his contribution to the charity and the 2 characters. One gives a red scarf as a present, and that scarf adds color to Scrooge's black clothing. The color is his move into the light as he emerges from darkness.
Such a meaningful movie to me and my sons, watch it together every Christmas season.
Statler and Waldorf are probably my favorite muppets even though they usually have a small role. I love how they added an extra Marley (Robert or "Bob") so the two could heckle Scrooge together. That being said every Muppet has their own personality and one of the best things about them is discovering which ones you relate the most to.
"Just when you think this show can't get any worse, it gets better." "How?" "It ends." "Hohohohoho"
My favorite Muppet is Kermit. The originally deleted song "When Love is Gone" was very heartbreaking to a point where Rizzo started crying as Gonzo started comforting him. I almost choked up during that moment. So at 13:03, I'm with Rizzo too, Addie.
Now that you've seen this movie, alongside Muppet Classic Theater (1994) & The Muppets (2011), you should definitely watch ALL of the other Muppets movies including The Muppet Movie (1979), The Great Muppet Caper (1981), The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984), Muppet Treasure Island (1996), Muppets from Space (1999), and Muppets Most Wanted (2014). #MoreMuppetsForAddieCounts
That’s the one belle sang right
@@scottniesen4632 Yes it is.
@@alextan1478Muppets from Space sucked
There are a couple of little gags in the signs on the shops in the background during the final sequence. One of them is "Statler and Waldorf's", and those are the names of the muppets who played Jacob and Robert (Bob) Marley. Another is "Mickelwhite's". That's Michael Caine's original last name before he changed it.
I highly recommend watching the original classic "The Muppet Movie". There are also some great episodes of the original TV series "The Muppet Show" available to stream. They even had one guest-starring Mark Hamill shortly after the first Star Wars came out, with the entire show themed around the movie. Musical guests included such stars as Debbie Harry and Alice Cooper.
Muppet Treasure Island !!!!! oh, and The Great Gonzo has always been my favorite muppet.
This is one of the best versions of the story. The only bits that are missing are Scrooge's sister who we see in the past and is the mother of his nephew Fred and the children hiding under the robe of the Ghost of Christmas Present - Want and Ignorance
There are so many excellent Christmas Carol adaptations, and this is one of the best. Others? The 1999 "A Christmas Carol" starring Patrick Stewart is great. So is the 1970 musical film "Scrooge", which has a catchy song that I still think of to this day.
Glad you watched the version with the song "When Love is Gone." It was removed from the original release. It's too amazing to not have in the movie.
I've always loved watching the Muppets. Addie, if you liked this movie then I would love to suggest watching "The Muppet Movie" from 1979 and try watching any of the episodes of the original "Muppet Show" from the 70's. One thing that I like about the Muppets is that whenever There's a large group of them in a scene, the puppeteers are having their characters doing crazy funny things in the background to try to draw your attention to them so keep an eye on what's going on in the background because you'll probably see a lot of stuff that will have you laughing your backside off lol.
Muppet Treasure Island is one of the funniest Muppet movies ever. In the opening they sing a song about how evil the pirate crew that starts the whole thing is and there's a line that goes, 'every man aboard would'a killed his mate for a bag of ginnies or a piece of eight.' I got curious and looked up what a piece of eight would be worth in todays money....about 13 dollars. So they'd kill one of their own for less than 20 bucks.
Addie, this is my favorite Christmas movie; we watch it every year on Christmas Eve!
And i always get choked up.
One of the neatest things is that it is virtually the most accurate historical costuming to the period in a movie, including what the muppets are wearing! Its mind-blowing, the details!
10:20 Rizzo is fantastic in this movie. He has some of the best lines 😂
This was hands-down, from Lionel Barrymore to Patrick Stewart & onwards, my favourite performance of Scrooge and my favourite adaptation of A Christmas Carol. There are whole swaths of narration and dialog lifted straight out of the book presumably because the writers knew they were never going to top Dickens' prose. And then there are so many ways you can interpret and play Ebenezer; I'd seen Scrooge the miserly capitalist and Scrooge the cruel misanthrope, but Michael Caine's was the first time I'd seen Scrooge the broken-hearted loner who finds his redemption in letting his heart break one last time - this time breaking open. So good!
Addie, for next Christmas you should add Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas to your schedule.
The Alastair Sim version of a Christmas Carol (originally a TV version from the 1950s) is one of the best adaptations.
Hey it’s Addie and today I shall be watching the greatest adaptation of a Christmas carol so sit back and watch one of the greatest Christmas movies of all time..
My response I’m getting the pop corn and turning giddy with muppetness
My Favorite Christmas Movie!!!! Also, the cut song was my favorite song of the movie and was very angry when I got it on blu-ray only to find it missing from the movie. I think you are the only reactor that I have seen actually use the full length version and it makes me so happy that you did.
The first ghost I think was filmed underwater to make her more "wilowy" but she defiantly gives off Dark Crystal vibes than Muppets
OMG! So Michael Caine is an actor 😲 BLOWN' I Am!
This adaptation of A Carol is my favourite. It is just a great story and I love to see it in so many different ways.
I do love that they give Scrooge a gift as far as I know the only version where they did
The reason there’s two Marleys is an Easter Egg: Robert Marley shortened is Bob. 🇯🇲
I guess they couldn’t name him Bob to distinguish him from Bob Cratchit.
Muppet Treasure Island is an absolute must.
That ghost of Christmas past definitely wandered in from the uncanny valley😂 FWIW, I love it.
The Marleys made they chains as the song of another musical version of the story say "link by link".🎵
One of the best adaptations. George C. Scott 1984 is also great. And Patrick Stewart in 1999.
YESSS! Full-length FTW! It’s only a bit longer but it makes a pretty big difference.
When the professor was like the american way (bc in the muppets canon he's all about america) so the inside joke, they had to correct him for the movie lol. Also when he said don't tip the driver 😂
“Oh, yeah. I wondered about the texture. Patooey!” 🤣
My second favorite version, right behind the 1951 version called “Scrooge”, starring Alistair Sim . Sim is the perfect embodiment of Scrooge.
I got in trouble at our last day at work lunch before we leaver for the break over Christmas & New Year. When my boss got up to speak I started singing "It's Marley and Marley". I found it hilarious but most others didn't.
Loved the reaction. Thank you for watching the full version. The Belle/Scrooge duet is such an important part to the story and an emotional moment.
Favourite muppets? Animal and Beaker for me.
With Christmas just around the corner I'd love to see you react to my favorite version of A Christmas Carol with George C Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge
0:34 - "A *fair* amount of times in my childhood..."
Addie's parents: "She watched that same VHS tape 37 times."