How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Name: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Director: Ron Howard
Released: 2000

Synopsis

The Grinch decides to rob Whoville of Christmas - but a dash of kindness from little Cindy Lou Who and her family may be enough to melt his heart...

100
Boston Globe
With Carrey hitting a career peak, this Grinch doesn't steal Christmas; it restores the season by helping energize us enough to make it through the whole thing.
91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
He's (Carrey) a marvelous Grinch in this spirited, bustling and mostly faithful spin on Seuss.
75
Christian Science Monitor
Carrey is excellent, making the most of his comic gifts even in a cumbersome Grinch outfit, and the eye-spinning color scheme is dazzling to behold.
60
TV Guide Magazine
A smartly stylized hoot.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
I am not a mind-reader and cannot be sure, but I think a lot of children are going to look at this movie with perplexity and distaste. It's just not much fun.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Overall, the film sparkles. But it's a curiously unaffecting sparkle, an example, almost, of how the special effects stole Christmas.
30
L.A. Weekly
This new feature has replaced the original's benevolence, taste and wit with cynicism, armpit humor and manic, desperately unfunny padding.
20
Slate
Profoundly unnecessary -- cluttered, padded even at 90 minutes, indifferently narrated by Anthony Hopkins, and consistently misdirected by Ron Howard.