Review of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Dr. Seuss's How The Grinch Stole Christmas lifts the unique images right off the pages of the beloved book and brings them to dazzling life, with just the right amount of movement and sound added. This is really the only film version you need of the tale, and while Ron Howard's overstuffed Jim Carrey vehicle is fun eye candy, it doesn't capture a shred of the magic found in the book. This translation fares eternally better, thanks to a slim running time and the gnarled vocal talents of Boris Karloff, who presides as narrator as well as playing the Grinch himself. A classic little package of Christmas magic, and in my mind, the definitive version of the classic.