How the Grinch Stole Christmas Review

My whole family LOVES How the Grinch Stole Christmas so much, we tend to watch it year-round!

Based on Dr. Seuss' book How the Grinch Stole Christmas, this 2000 movie production is directed by Ron Howard and stars Jim Carrey.  Unlike the Seuss movie The Cat in the Hat, which was a HUGE bomb, How the Grinch Stole Christmas will delight viewers of any and every age.  The visuals are gorgeous, the narration is calming and pulls you into the story, and while the visual humor captures the kids, the verbal humor will capture the adult's attention.

Carrey plays the Grinch, a "what" that's not a Who.  After a childhood of not fitting in with the Who's, the Grinch is a curmudgeon who cannot STAND the holiday season and all that goes with it.  To him, it's all greed and appearance versus real emotion, which is part of which drives him to extreme lengths to steal Christmas. 

(The only fallacy here is that you are partly led to believe he's hurt by this because he was judged by his appearance, and yet his holiday hostility and negativity was apparent early on from his infancy, such as his trip down in the pumbersella, before others had the chance to judge him).  However, true to the holiday spirit, the Grinch finds his place with the Who's and in the holiday season.

The Grinch's interaction with the Who's is hilarious, the Who's world is beautiful and amazing, and the overall message (that you don't need anything more for Christmas than your friends and family) is a worthwhile one for kids to understand during the holiday "gimme" season.

 For holiday classics, and family films, you can't get much better than this wonderful movie.