November 6, 2009 at 7:00 am by Edward Adams
HUMBUG DEEZ: Ghost of Christmas Present (from left, performed by Jim Carrey) chides his charge Ebenezer Scrooge (also performed by Carrey) in A Christmas Carol.
GENRE: CGI holiday drama
THE PITCH: Disney gives Charles Dickens’ classic holiday tale an animated makeover. Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey) is visited by ghosts who show him glimpses of his past, present and future in efforts to save his soul before Christmas.
MONEY SHOTS: It’s hard to pull away from the visual effects each of the ghosts utilize to show Scrooge various moments in time. Ghost of Christmas Past (Carrey) uses slingshot-ish flight sequences to take Scrooge to parts of his past. Ghost of Christmas Present (Carrey, again) hurls luminescent golden beads that turn the floor and walls translucent for he and Scrooge to spy on the present. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (yup, you guessed it … Carrey) uses ebon shadows to transport and frighten Scrooge back on to a righteous path.
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March 30, 2009 at 12:02 pm by Debbie Michaud
According to Variety, MGM’s looking at Sean Penn, Jim Carrey and Benicio Del Toro to play Larry, Curly and Moe, respectively, in the Farrelly brothers’ The Three Stooges project set for a 2010 release.
Studio has set Sean Penn to play Larry, and negotiations are underway with Jim Carrey to play Curly, with the actor already making plans to gain 40 pounds to approximate the physical dimensions of Jerome “Curly” Howard.
The studio is zeroing in on Benicio Del Toro to play Moe.
The film is not a biopic, but rather a comedy built around the antics of the three characters that Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Howard played in the Columbia Pictures shorts.
This is definitely a change of pace for Penn, whose scorching dramatic roles in 2004’s Mystic River and 2008’s Milk earned him Best Actor Oscars, and who, Variety notes, hasn’t starred in a comedy since 1989’s We’re No Angels.
I’ve never watched a single Three Stooges skit (I don’t think), but I’d see this just for Sean Penn — he can make pretty much any movie interesting in my book.
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