How the Grinch Stole Christmas, made way back in 1966, is a timeless classic. You’d think, or at least hope, the studios would leave Dr. Seuss’s beloved story alone after the abomination that was Jim Carrey’s remake in 2000. But no, the Hollywood suits are back to take another shot with The Grinch.
The book is only 64 pages long, and the original animated show only runs 26 minutes, so they had to pad the story a lot to get a film with a runtime of almost an hour and a half. Cindy-Lou Who (Cameron Seely), “who was no more than two,” in the original looks to be about eight now and has a whole cadre of friends to cook up mischief with. Cindy-Lou’s mom (Rashida Jones) is a hard-working single mother, and there’s a whole story arc about that. The Grinch himself (Benedict Cumberbatch) gets a backstory about being a sad, lonely orphan during Christmas years ago. Apparently, he doesn’t hate Christmas so much as find it depressing. These stories all come off as filler, and none of them are compelling.
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