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The film was released in Disney Digital 3-D and was the first Disney movie in IMAX 3-D. It is also Disney's third film retelling of A Christmas Carol following 1983's Mickey's Christmas Carol and 1992's The Muppet Christmas Carol. The film also marks Jim Carrey's first role in a Walt Disney Pictures film (the first Disney film that Carrey had a role in was Simon Birch in 1998 released under the company's Hollywood Pictures banner).
The film opened at number one in 3,683 theaters, grossing $30,051,075 its opening weekend, with an average of $8,159 per theater.[2] The film has come to gross an estimated $137,481,366 in the United States and Canada and $181,000,000 in other territories, for a worldwide total of $318,481,366.[3] In the UK, A Christmas Carol topped the box office on two separate occasions; the first was when it opened, the second was 5 weeks later when it leapfrogged box office chart toppers 2012, The Twilight Saga: New Moon and Paranormal Activity despite family competition from Nativity!, another Christmas themed movie.
In his review, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the movie four stars, calling it an exhilarating visual experience .[13] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A, applauding the film as a marvelous and touching yuletide toy of a movie .[14] Joe Neumaier of the New York Daily News gave the film 3/5 stars, but claimed the film is well-crafted but artless, detailed but lacking soul. [15] Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon.com gave the film a mixed review claiming the movie is a triumph of something — but it's certainly not the Christmas spirit. [16] Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal wrote in his review that the film's tone is joyless, despite an extended passage of bizarre laughter, several dazzling flights of digital fancy, a succession of striking images and Jim Carrey's voicing of Scrooge plus half a dozen other roles. [17]
In the UK, most reviewers criticised the technology, Daily Telegraph reviewer Tim Robey wrote How much is gained by the half-real visual style for this story is open to question -- the early scenes are laborious and never quite alive, and the explosion of jollity at the end lacks the virtue of being funny .[18] Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian also criticised the technology The hi-tech sheen is impressive, but in an unexciting way. I wanted to see real human faces convey real human emotions. .[19] Time Out London praised the film for sticking to Dickens' original dialogue but also questioned the technology by saying To an extent, this ‘Christmas Carol’ is a case of style – and stylisation – overwhelming substance. [20]
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