How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Director Ron Howard aims for the beautifully stylized mayhem of Frank Tashlin and Tim Burton, but he comes closer to the clamorous, headache-inducing visual overkill of Joel Schumacher's Batman movies.

Director Ron Howard usually lets his comedies gestate organically, but his Grinch is frantic from start to finish.

Live-action version of classic has some crude, scary moments.

Five-year-olds might go for it, but people who grew up with Jones' version will be looking at their watches and grinding their teeth.

Cloying fancy gives way to gross-out comedy, twisted social commentary, affecting pathos, and weirdly sexualized romance in this lurid live-action version of the classic children's book.

Shrill, strenuous and entirely without charm.

To this day, How the Grinch Stole Christmas stands as one of the most inspired and truly magical holiday texts.

With a little more polish and a lot more restraint this could have been a holiday treat. Instead it’s a repetitive and sometimes laborious exercise...

Gaspar Noe by means of Lars von Trier with John Waters, David Lynch, Harmony Korine, Nicolas Winding Refn, Bobcat Goldthwait, Rob Zombie, Darren Aronofsky, Uwe Boll, the Farrellys and Tim Story serving as creative consultants.

It just doesn't work taking these short Seuss stories and turning them into a feature film. Very unpleasant to watchd