Damn 😢❤

I always cry at that part. It's why this version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas will always be my favorite.

Oh, that's beautiful

wow what words can do to you ❤

That, and the part where all the Whos still start singing make me cry. Because to me, Christmas isn't about religion, nor is it about commercialism and stuff. Christmas doesn't need gifts and trees, those are just traditions that help people enjoy the holiday and communicate the true meaning of Christmas: unity. Christmas means something different to everyone, of course, but to me it's about people coming together in happiness, respect, and appreciation for each other, regardless of any differences they may have. That's why the Christmas Truce of 1914 is still one of my favorite, most inspiring historical moments ever. When many, many people on opposing sides of the First World War decided to stop fighting and stop trying to kill each other for a day, and instead cross No Man's Land to shake hands, tell stories, play ball, and have a smoke together. All because it was Christmas Day. A lot of them had to be pulled out and relocated the next day because they had formed a bond and no longer wanted to fight each other. We are all people, and we all have our differences. But just for one day, we can all come together and hold hands in the spirit of the holidays, without prejudice or hate. That's why Christmas is, and probably always will be my favorite holiday.

Yes! It’s my favourite comfort movie !

When I was a kid I was obsessed with that movie. I would always compare myself to Matilda and she was my hero.

Maltida is bomb

I always dreamed about having a Miss Honey in my life as a kid.

It's funny, my mom looked/acted exactly like the principal when I was a kid. To the point where if you would have told me she played the roll, I would've believed you. My mom is a narcissist, and is just controlling, manipulative and angry. I always loved the scene where the kids chase her out of the school at the end of the movie.

I would say tho that the "grumpy neighbor" can be extremely unreasonable in the amount of quiet they demand. I had a neighbor who called the park management because i had a birthday party in my own yard and the child guests were being loud (I guess) We weren't playing music at all let alone blasting it, and it was from like 2-5 or something... the only thing that was slightly noisy were My 7 and 5 year old cousins playing outside and possibly being slightly rambunctious. SERIOUSLY?! If you have such an issue with noise that you can't handle 2 children playing outside for 3 hours for one day do everyone including yourself a favor and go move to a cabin in the middle of nowhere.

In our current economy, is it even guaranteed that they can afford to move?

@@aaron2891 Not the point. You exercise patience. Compromise goes both ways.

I understand your pain, it hurts that the people I love can't be more gentle because they thing it's something I have to learn to live with without suffering 🤕

As someone with misophonia too i completely understand, and it has also further ruined my relationships with people due to how spiteful and anxious it makes me

It's also about his experience with UVA

@@leighmartin9187 University of Virginia? Huh?

I've got nothing against capitalism, but the commercialization of the holidays is horrible and has only gotten worse since this was written.

I love that his critique of capitalism ends with him giving all their shit back

@@Krendall2I’ve got a problem with both!

SHOOT!!! Want a job?

@@CinemaTherapyShow Wow, just found your channel literally like two days ago and you already are offering me a job? You guys are the best!

@@CinemaTherapyShow Ha, for what it's worth, I also found the channel just a day ago, and I seriously would be interested in a writing job, if that was at all a serious remark. (I've been trying to get one of those for a very long time now.) Ah, well. You're doing a great job as it is.

The Nostalgia Critic did his whole review of the Jim Carrey film in rhyme and it's awesome.

@@CinemaTherapyShow Hi, I really enjoy all your videos. Can y'all react to Grey Gardens (2009)?

*Martha May Whovier will remember too*

We are huge fans As you can see For Jim Carey is the best Grinch, that was or ever will be 😂😂

Eef

Y e s

When it came out in theaters, I went to see it twice in one day cause I loved it so much lol

You're not in deep until you start finding Grinch/Tony the Tiger fanfic and fanart.

@@DarkestElemental616 why am I not surprised lol

In case you were curious, his name is Thurle Ravenscroft. He had a ton of roles over his decades of voice work, many of which were uncredited. But his timbre is unmistakable :)

Ravenscroft also did the narration for Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion!

@@DarkestElemental616 That's all Gaud's fault XD, they are the instigator

For real I love that movie! I went back and watched it to see if it would still make me laugh and it did!

I second this!

Please do it. I argue it's better than the original in parts. It builds on what this starts. It's not just the Grinch who learns the lesson, it's the citizens of whoville too. I love the acting and the way it comes across. How can you not feel. "I just wanted everybody to be together for Christmas." And the whole scene where Cindy Lu's father stands up for her against the mayor and slaps the message of the film in his face. And the ending where she tells the Grinch his cheek is warm before singing. Like, how can you not feel at that? 😢

Yesss i love that show!!!!

I third this notion

Yes!!!!

Oh yeah. Their interpretation of the damage that not loving your children can do. Yikes.

YES

That's fascinating

I will add because of Chuck Jones, the director. He came from the world of Looney Tunes and his visual style and humor add a lot too it. Dr Seuss wrote the lyrics for the Grinch song.

Yeah that was weird

@SARA PERKINS his eyes aren’t brown in the beginning though. They start as red.

And his smile becomes a heart.

They actually change back and forth after that point. I think it’s a continuity problem tho.

I noticed it before they even said it 😂

Yeah, we don't really know much about the Grinch outside of the Christmas season. He might be a laugh riot around Halloween.

“I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.” Charles Dickens I try to live it from this perspective for my own peace of mind...

I feel ya, it's already starting too. The screaming children, adult tantrums and the GLITTER. It helps to pick out the nice customers day to day, and realize that everyone's stressed, even more this year. That said, I do wear my 'Bah Humbug' sweater with a little too much pride on ugly sweater day.

@@Killer_Turnip Glitter is EVIL. I’m amazed my poor bathtub isn’t coated in it because Santa dropped a Christmas bomb

Me too but from other reasons. I have a lot of bad memories from past Christmas evenings so now I came to really hate it. I freak out when the girls in my class start singing Christmas songs (like they start from November wtf?) But I’ve tried (well I still try and kinda fail but anyway) to accept the fact that I have these memories and not all people should be affected from it. People can enjoy whatever the fuck they want, right?

Man that sucks. I always try to be nice to retail workers, but I will especially this year. People really need to realize that retail workers are people too, even if you don’t see them later.

Jonathan here. I liked it more than Alan did. But then, being a filmmaker himself, he's got a more critical eye than I do when it comes to the craft.

I’m not a fan because of all the rude humor and raunchy jokes. I recently realized why I don’t like a lot of adaptations of stuff like the grinch or the live action scoobydoo. It’s the way they force in crude adult jokes as if adults couldn’t possibly like it if there wasn’t a man making out with a dog’s butthole or enough burp and fart jokes to put you off your popcorn. I love the original grinch and the original scooby doo and they didn’t have any of that. It was a legitimately good story. The only exceptionI’ve found so far is the new jiumanji movie which was legitimately funny. The only scene that I really felt was ‘rude’ was the peeing scene and I think it legitimately added something to the movie rather than just being shoved in for forced laughter. I see why people like these movies but I also understand why therapist reacts doesn’t

Truthfully I do not think the story needs the charicters to be "deep". Their are two things a charicter can be. They can be a person or they can be a stand in for a thought. Kind of like the paragon heroes in old myths. They are not writen as a "real character" but as a personification of an idea. A lot of Dr. Suse's writting intentionaly has the charicters left vague so they can represent an idea instead of the circumstances of a individual. Personaly I think that by giving the grinch a standard back story it striped a lot of the meaning of the original by giving the grinch a "good reason" to hate the town. The line where it points out that his hate could be because of his shoes being to small or his head not being screwed on right is their because the personal circumstances of the grinch do not mater. What really matters is that this mindset he is in has limited his capacity for love. You do not always have to be brutily bullyed to let anger trap you. I mean how many times have you co templated punching something because someone is eating in a quiet room? Or how many people have you seen loose it in the starbucks line because it is taking a while and take it out on the staff? Whether they are doing it because they have had a horible life or because their shoes are uncomfortable is something we will never know and it does not matter. What maters is that if we are the towns people in the situation that we do not let others anger prevent our joy from shining and if we are the grinch in the situation that we not let our anger (justified or not) contort us into someone who actively tries to hurt others. By trying to deepen the individual charicters I think the original message is obscured by how we feel twords the charicter. Now in all fairness the live action movie completely gutted the origninal meaning and instead focoused on a "consumerism is bad" message... which would have been fine if they compleetely did their own film instead of trying to pass it off as a "adaptation" of a clasic.

While I love the Jim Carrey version, I can understand why others are put off by it; the movie has a lot of raunchy humor for something based off of a children's book (for very young children no less), the appearance for the Whos are unsettling (impressive as they are, Dr. Seuss designs are MUCH better on paper than in real life), and for me personally, I can't get over the little issue of having Cindy Lou Who be the "sympathizer" to the Grinch, but ultimately NOT able to recognize him through his piss-poor Santa disguise (cause, like, she's seen him in person, she knows how he acts and sounds, yet still sincerely believed that figure with green-furred hands was Santa and not the Grinch?) And funny thing with regards to the depth, I actually thought the same for a long time: that the Jim Carrey version was better since it gave the Grinch a reason to hate Christmas. But then I read up what motivated Dr. Seuss to write the original story, and it turned out that the Grinch was based off of *himself*: a cynical man who lived on a hill overlooking a town/city that actively celebrated Christmas, and him despising them for it. So, that revelation at least made me see the original Grinch story in new light: that of an isolated grump who hates something he doesn't understand and tries to ruin it to make everyone miserable just like himself. While the Jim Carrey version is more of a criticism on the commercialization of Christmas, which makes the holiday more about the presents and decorations than "goodwill towards men"

@@susanresha8107 I agree but my thoughts were in reference to what the channel is about.

Personally, I thought this movie was about my FIL, who, every year, got drunk and waved the carving knife around while singing " We wish you a merry horse $###..." to his terrified children. After all, why should anyone be merry and joyful if I can't? It's all about me!!!" Right?

I’m curious what part of a Christmas Carol seems preachy to you? Just curious :)

@@heididavison816 There is a whole bit where the characters are praying. The film is very religious overall

@@Stettafire it's not preachy. It's literally depicting a culture of people and era in time where Christianity was the dominant religion and belief. And everyone prayed. The movie doesn't tell you you Have to be Christian. And it's literally 2 or 3 scenes. Out of an entire novel/movies.

if you don't like the Christmas carol you might have just watched the wrong adaption, i suggest the Muppet Christmas carol.

@@Stettafire Well, Christmas is a holy day to honor the Nativity of Jesus Christ. So there's that. Not a Christian? Do not celebrate.

As a kid I wasn't paying much attention to that part. But now as an adult I just feel bad for Max. Especially when the Grinch made him pull that sleigh filled with the Christmas decorations!

But he saved the dog at the end and the dog saved him. Max is the prime example of unconditional love.

I was watching the Jim Carey version with a friend once and they pointed out that Max was probably a discarded Christmas gift, since most of their gifts end up at the dump with the grinch. Otherwise where did he get Max and why would he keep him?

@carlee - In the newest Cumberbatch version, Max is not treated quite as badly, though there is still lots of room for improvement.

I love that movie !!

That dog ♥

Love that film litterly made my childhood

I noticed that the Grinch was a bit more abusive to Max in the 1966 cartoon than in the 2000 movie. In the original he seemed to take his anger about the Whos towards his dog. He didn't in the 2000 movie. The worst that the Grinch did to Max in the movie was that Max was forced to have Mayor May Who kiss his butt!

Duuuuude Thankyou for bringing up Carrey’s. I also think this film is one of the final survivors of the CGI war. I loooooove the theatrical props, prosthetics, set. They really made a production and stayed off the green screen. Prob one of the last movies of its kind to do so!

I was thinking the same thing. I can't speak for the movie itself as I have not seen it in quite a while, but man... the things Jim Carrey went through for that role...

Yep, Jim Carrey's Grinch is just iconic. Like I've never watched the original before this video, but Jim Carrey made me love the Grinch

I thought Jim Carrey's Grinch held the same message very well, and I deffo related to his character as someone who was ostracized as a child, even from my friends eventually.

To be fair, just because Alan questioned the existence of a fan base of the 2000 film doesn’t mean he is incapable of understanding it.

Since the movie is for kids, I think its cool that they show mature kids. Like hey, this an example of a child who is still grateful for what they have, be like that. Not some scene of Calliou like kids throwing a tantrum- that would be annoying.

Oh my gosh yes!!

I like that idea.

Yes, please!

Yes Please!

Yessss omg that's an amazing idea

He did that before the Grinch movie though - The Mask was pretty insane. And that time he crawled out of a rhino's ass.

@@kaldo_kaldo WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN

@@possums154 Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

@@kaldo_kaldo holy shit

@@possums154 You watched it?

Ginny Jolly: I thought It's A Wonderful Life was a version of A Christmas Carol. haha

@@LA_HA It _is!_ It's _A Christmas Carol_ from the perspective of Bob Cratchitt (sp?) _A Christmas Carol_ (I almost said _A Christmas Story!_ ) has been done and redone through the ages from direct retellings to subtler retellings like the Grinch. It's a timeless story.

@@ginnyjollykidd Wow. I honestly never considered it was told from a particular character's point of view. I simply thought it was a thematic thing, where original characters were going through the Dickens story in another way So, George is an original character who is being taken on this past through future journey by Clarence the Angel instead of having three ghosts showing him different parts of his life. Plus, George isn't in the time stream we're being shown because he wasn't born, per his wish. He's just seeing how important One Good Person makes in the lives around them because he can't see it while he's busy living said life. So, as you see, I was viewing it from the thematic point of view instead of a straight alignment with the familiar Dickens story. But, I really like your idea, too

HOW did I not know of this existing!?

I just watched it, it definitely makes the grinch out to be more of a menace then just hating Christmas.

Oh that was a great movie

The songs are NOT goofy. They are amazing

Me too! Except for me it was the Inside Out video

@@teddythespringer8117 same!

Same

Same.

Same for me!

Thank you so much!

This video single-handedly made me want to buy the special on blu-Ray and see it again!

That... that would explain a lot actually

With an avoidant attachment style...

I thought, even as a kid, that some ear muffs or ear plugs would have solved the whole conflict in, like, two minutes into the movie...

Ha! Good one! 😂 but I would say closer to autism...

@Naomi tehe A sensory processing disorder causes your brain to not process sensory input correctly, which mostly means you have a bunch of hyper- or hyposensetivities. One of the most noticable symptoms is a hypersensetivity to sound. In this sepecific example the whos don't experience their noise level as troublesome, even the dog doesn't seem to be all that bothered by it, yet the grinch's brain can't filter that input correctly and to him it feels like they are banging his head instead of the drums. (I really hope this makes sense and isn't to simplyfied.)

I also do not like horror. I find the best way to justify the existance of the live action version of the movie is to think of it as being like the alien from "The Thing". Thus I have catigorized it as a horror film and run from the room when it is on.... the other "adaptations" of the great Dr. Get the same treatment.

We've got enough horrors in the world without having to watch it on film!

@@melissacooper4282 I get why you would think that way but I think the horrors in the world are part of the reason horror as a Genre is so well loved. In a way you learn to deal with terrible situations when watching a horror movie or reading a book and it can make the every day horrors seem less bad. I also feel like all the pain characters go through makes the payoff in the end when the evil is defeated feel much more impactful. That's why I mostly dislike horror films that don't have any sort of happy ending.

Same. Too scary and activating for me

Same I’m way too sensitive to anything remotely scary - freaks me out way too much. I tried watching their reviews/analysis of some thrillers/horrors and couldn’t stand it

Thanks? 😅

Wasn't this whole video about being entitled to your own opinion without being devalued?

i second this

YES

OH MY GOSH THAT HAS BEEN MY FAVORITE MOVIE SINCE FOREVER!!!

Love Megamind. It's one of my most rewatchable movies.

Yeah, and it has somewhat the same theme as The Grinch where the antagonist changes his perspective too ☺️

@Heather N - They did an episode where they discussed Potter's handling of bullies.

Yes awesome idea !

hill house literally sparked my absolute love for horror bc it deals with such human issues in a supernatural way. welcome to night vale also does that, and i recommend you take a listen if you like hill house sometime, it's great :)

That would be a fantastic analysis video!

Amazing show

There’s a ton to analyze that show. I’ve grown to appreciate horror shows/movies as I’ve gotten older

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This actually made me chuckle 😂 buckle up for the comments that don’t understand clever irony

exactly what i said! haha

Then I P considered something he hadn't before. Maybe Christmas movies don't come from a Netflix store: maybe Grinch movies, perhaps, mean a little bit more.

That idea was mentioned around 4:30… 🤔… interesting (however I don’t blame you, love that version)

You my friend are a who down in whoville. Dont let grinchy antics keep you down.

Your parents have obviously never seen anyone try to edit a KZfaq video on a deadline.

have they ever used youtube....? bc that's such a small part

KZfaq is really what you make of it. There is so much great content on this platform. Have they never seen the TedEd channel for example?

I see their point. Simultaneously though. It's a tool, you make with it what you wish

Aw...

That’s why in all those Rankin Bass claymation Christmas specials one of my favorite characters is the Winter Warlock, and his song Put One Foot in Front of the Other.

mine too. nothing like watching predator on vhs at 4:00pm then rudolph at 7:00pm with the fam. childhood.

We're planning on doing this for a looooong time, so I'm sure we'll get around to at least the Cumberbatch one :)

@@CinemaTherapyShow - It is also visually beautiful.

I’ve always liked the Jim Carrey one. I just find it funny

@@itsmxtwist no one here is vilified, nothing will be agreed on by everyone. We truly can differ and still accept one another.

I thought the Jim Carrey version defeated the entire point of the story, that the Whos are so pure of heart that they give the Grinch faith in humanity. The Whos in the live action movie are absolutely awful people who gave the Grinch good reason to hate them.

It terrifies my 6 year old. Just the picture on Netflix bothers her.

You are so welcome!

Wait, he had blue eyed

@@mediatorraptor3349 Hitler had brown eyes. He was a hypocrite.

@@mediatorraptor3349 no but he had like absolutely stupid ideals of the „perfect human“

Certainly a questionable statement to make, no matter which order you put "good people"/"blue eyes" in.

@@rustykettle6889 Blue eyes with brown hair - if you Google, you can find a colour photo (they did exist back then, were just rare). The brown hair, though, keeps him as a hypocrite.

Well they wouldn’t put it on TV every year if people hated it would they? 🙂

@@rib_rob_personal It's a wonderful life-also used to be on TV every year and it's easily one of my favorites. The thing is I never watched it on TV. We owned it and watched it every year.

@@maureenseel118 And the weird thing is is that It's A Wonderful Life didn't become a classic until they started showing it on TV. When it first was shown in theaters it didn't do well at the box office. It wasn't until years later they started the tradition of airing the film on TV on Christmas Eve.

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That’s the scariest thing ever