Disney's A Christmas Carol 3D

[Darcy Baldwin]

Has anyone seen this? Is it worth $25 for 4 of us?

[eranslow]

Both my IL's and my parents saw this (separately) and they all really enjoyed it. Hope that helps a little

[meganmecrazy]

I've been wondering too!

[neenee]

Oh how fun......might be another activity for us to do.....

[schock77]

I haven't seen it but a friend with kids the same age as mine did (6 and 4) and said it was kind of dark... but it may be good for the age of your kiddos Darcy.

[lovely1m]

From what I have seen & heard, it would be too scary for younger kids, but I really wanna see it with my mom. I hope its playing when I go back for Christmas. Grandpa & N can bond while we go.

[cheltzey]

My friends saw it and said was amazing but that they wouldn't take anyone younger than 8. We went to the train exhibition and saw a 10-min preview and thought it looked really fun.

[DawnMarch]

I enjoyed it, but I didn't think it was very good for kids -- almost certainly too scary for younger kids.

[xboxmom]

I took all 5 of my kids from age 14 to 3 and they all loved it! It's a tad bit scary when Marleys ghost comes and also the ghost of christmas future but I think that is to be expected. I love love loved it!

[aggiefamily]

I'm not taking mine. They want to see it but I heard it is too scary.

[BrattyMeg]

I heard it was too scary too for my younger ones..my older ones are holding out for Avatar...they had a choice of which to see @Imax and they chose that one lol (they are also 13 and 10 so slightly older)

[DawnMarch]

SPOILER ALERT! don't read if you don't want details from the movie!

I am still not sure what Disney was aiming at when they made this movie. It certainly doesn't seem to have been made with kids in mind since it is quite scary in parts (e.g., when the ghost of Christmas Present dies, rots, turns into a skeleton and then blows away; or when you see nasty, creepy disgusting Ignorance and Need under his cloak -- my kids were like, "why did they have to have those 2 scary kids in the movie?"; or when Scrooge falls into his own open grave that is basically the fiery pit of hell). It was also very true to the original dialogue from the story which is basically impossible for kids to understand, so that when Scrooge's girlfriend is talking about how he's changed and she's releasing him from his "contract" (engagement), my 9 year old daughter looked at me and asked "what's going on?". And then the stuff that they added seems just bizarre -- like a miniaturized scrooge being chased through the city by a giant team of terrifying black "death horses" that goes on and on and on.

I think if I had seen it by myself, I might have thought it was a good movie, though not really any valuable addition to the Scrooge "genre" (if there is such a thing). But with kids, I cringed through a lot of it and wondered who in the world Disney thought they were making this 3D cartoon movie for.

[Darcy Baldwin]

Well, we've listened to the Christmas Carol every Christmas, so my kids are familiar enough with the language and what it means. I do worry about Christmas future and Tim and my youngest. I think we'll just Netflix the Patrick Stewart version (whom they are familiar with through the audio) and watch it instead

Thanks, everyone!