Charles Dickens' 1843 story "A Christmas Carol" has been adapted so many times we've actually lost count. It's been retold with Muppets , reworked for the "Doctor Who" universe , and it's currently being refashioned with a full horror angle thanks to Robert Eggers . The structure of the story is so straightforward that you can play around with the setting in all sorts of ways without ever losing its heart. That might be why people are generally down to watch yet another iteration of it, as well as why they might not respond well to the versions that play things too straight.

The 2009 Jim Carrey-starring, motion-capture animated "A Christmas Carol" is one of the most faithful film adaptations ever made of Dickson's tale, but it's also one that earned a mixed critical reception. The

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