Monster Crap: How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

Lots of holiday anger comes with this terrible 2000 full feature length remake of How The Grinch Stole Christmas. I tried to keep my cursing away, but sadly....this film broke me so I couldn't do that.

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[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

Definitely surprised no one has commented on this yet

[lionheart21]

I enjoyed that, nice review

[Gus Richlen Was Wrong]

Is the GINO poll upcoming?

[Hurbster]

Good article, Never saw the original (Dr. Seuss is not nearly as popular in the UK), enjoyed the film.

[CMWaters]

Funny thing is...that part with stealing the traffic light?

My mom actually laughed at that part.

So at least one person found it funny.

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

Dec 30, 2018 18:02:54 GMT -5 Gus Richlen Was Wrong said:

Is the GINO poll upcoming?

[ayumidah]

The main thing I remember about this movie was I fell asleep about 40 minutes into it, woke up as he was starting to steal Christmas and realized almost an hour and a half had passed. Yeesh. So bad.

[Paul]

There is exactly one moment in the movie that made me laugh and this is it:

The Grinch: The nerve of those Whos. Inviting me down there - on such short notice! Even if I wanted to go my schedule wouldn't allow it. 4:00, wallow in self pity; 4:30, stare into the abyss; 5:00, solve world hunger, tell no one; 5:30, jazzercize; 6:30, dinner with me - I can't cancel that again; 7:00, wrestle with my self-loathing... I'm booked. Of course, if I bump the loathing to 9, I could still be done in time to lay in bed, stare at the ceiling and slip slowly into madness. But what would I wear?

It's so funny that I refuse to believe it was in the script and I'm pretty sure Jim improvised it.

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

Dec 31, 2018 1:44:43 GMT -5 Paul said:

There is exactly one moment in the movie that made me laugh and this is it:

The Grinch: The nerve of those Whos. Inviting me down there - on such short notice! Even if I wanted to go my schedule wouldn't allow it. 4:00, wallow in self pity; 4:30, stare into the abyss; 5:00, solve world hunger, tell no one; 5:30, jazzercize; 6:30, dinner with me - I can't cancel that again; 7:00, wrestle with my self-loathing... I'm booked. Of course, if I bump the loathing to 9, I could still be done in time to lay in bed, stare at the ceiling and slip slowly into madness. But what would I wear?

It's so funny that I refuse to believe it was in the script and I'm pretty sure Jim improvised it.

As I said, the "6:30, dinner with me. I can't cancel that" was completely adlibbed.

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

Just looked at things...I've put it to 20 terrible nominees and one is political that I wouldn't normally nominate, but there are CGI demons in the film and I can't pass on that just because of politics. Would have been 21, but after careful deliberation, I eliminated Show Dogs from the nominees.

[A Platypus Rave]

One of the biggest problems is that it makes the who's look absolutely awful...

not to mention trying to explain why the Grinch the way he is takes away from the overall story of you know... no one knows why he was the way he was...


edit: also you didn't mention that thanks to this they made the Cat in the Hat... which was so bad Dr. Seuss's widow refused to let anyone make any more live action movies based on his work

Also Ms. Seuss just passed away about a week ago.

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

Jan 1, 2019 3:12:43 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

One of the biggest problems is that it makes the who's look absolutely awful...

not to mention trying to explain why the Grinch the way he is takes away from the overall story of you know... no one knows why he was the way he was...


edit: also you didn't mention that thanks to this they made the Cat in the Hat... which was so bad Dr. Seuss's widow refused to let anyone make any more live action movies based on his work

Also Ms. Seuss just passed away about a week ago.

Yeah, I forgot to mention the widow's sad passing.

On not mentioning the Cat in the Hat, I kinda did when I mentioned thanks to this, they made other Seuss films, most of which are awful. I wasn't mentioning Cat in The Hat by name because let's be honest, that (like the Lorax) is another story

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

Dec 31, 2018 0:11:44 GMT -5 CMWaters said:

Funny thing is...that part with stealing the traffic light?

My mom actually laughed at that part.

So at least one person found it funny.

Kinda like for me the Grinch trying to hail a taxi, the taxi passing him by, and the Grinch saying "It's because I'm Green, isn't it"

[schizo]

I actually loved the 2000 Grinch movie. Now the recent animated movie, that was terrible

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

The movie has a lot of good stuff and a lot of bad. Carrey's Grinch is just too much at times, and his backstory is a terrible addition (though necessary to pad it to feature length).

I like that they included a swinger key party gag in the flashback stuff.

Maybe that's why he really hates Christmas. His first moments were the trauma of witnessing a Whoville sex party.