How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas! starts in the land of Whoville located on an unknown snowflake. This adaptation of the Dr. Seuss book had to fill in a lot that the book lacks.

Filling in the holes

Making an adaptation of a book like How the Grinch Stole Christmas! can be a major challenge. The book is comprised of maybe 3 to 8 lines per page on a 20 page book. The book was first compiled into a cartoon narrated by the late and great Boris Karloff, and that was the closest anyone has ever done to making this into a movie adaptation.

In this version, Jim Carrey portrays the Grinch in convincing fashion and there are a number of flashbacks that help flesh out the character and give both him and the other characters depth and understanding. The movie was lighthearted and informative to the plot.

Plot

Being the outcast, the Grinch lived on a distant mountain and was insanely jealous of the Whos and their love for both Christmas and each other. He hated what he yearned for the most, to truly fit in.

As the movie progresses Cindy Lou Who begins to draw all the questions to who the Grinch is and is the one factor that helps the Grinch open his heart up and become a good person. He is reborn in a manner of speaking and tries to wrong the rights that he has done.

Ron Howard

Ron Howard was the director and he focused on the psychological aspects to help define the characters and give resolution in a way that was both simple and realistic to those that could look beyond the Whos and the Grinch as fictional characters. He made a Christmas tale a bit better and gave the story some much needed fleshing out in all the right areas, without ruining what Dr. Seuss had created.