A Christmas Carol

Advantages: Good fun to watch, a unique twist on "A Christmas Carol"
Disadvantages: None

...Blackadder's Christmas Carol is a one-off comedy special, a parody on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Timeline wise it's set between the third and the fourth series, and is narrated by Hugh Laurie. Ebenezer Blackadder owns a shop in Victorian England. In a brilliant twist on Blackadder and on Scrooge, he is widely regarded as the nicest man in England. He will go out of his way for anyone and would give away his last penny if it made someone happy. As a result of this though, he is taken advantage of all time, as people know he never says no to anyone. One person who doesn't though is his assistant, Mr. Baldrick, who for once is actually content in his job. But Ebenezer is lonely and miserable, his shop never makes a profit because he gives it all away and he never keeps anything for himself. That all changes though one... Read review

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Advantages: A family friendly, accurate retelling of a classic story, with a good cast and memorable songs!
Disadvantages: You're friends might give you a bit of stick but they secretly love it too!

...I watched this again after a teen break from it; sad I know for a 25 year old to be watching a kids Christmas some months before the holiday season has started; but what is really sad is that this adaption is one of the most faithful adaps of Dicken's classic short story (aside from it being the Muppets of course). It also has one of the most memorable musical scores and has humour that suits both adults and the little ones alike. I do feel stupid covering the story as I can't imagine a person not knowing it off by heartr but here goes (hopefully will tell you some things you didn't know): The Muppet Christmas Carol is an adaption of Charles Dicken's ghost story written as part of a collection of Christmas tales to expose the corruption of the upper classes which he did frequently in other novels such as 'Oliver Twist' & 'Nicholas... Read review

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Advantages: Festive and fun book based on a classic
Disadvantages: None

...A Christmas Carol is a lovely little book in the Mr Men collection 'With added Sparkle'. The cover of the book has a picture of Mr Happy and Mr Mean pulling a sleigh full of presents and the title above this in green and red lettering. The back cover of the book is white and has small pictures showing other titles available in this collection. The book begins by asking us if Mr Mean has any money, we find out that he has lots which he keeps hidden under his floorboards. He hardly spends any of his money and all he buys to eat for every meal is a can of beans. He even eats them cold as he is too mean to put his cooker on. Mr Mean has all of this money as he owns a factory which makes piggy banks, he hardly pays his staff any money at all and he only lets them have one day off every year which is Christmas day, he even thinks that... Read review

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