Start your holidays on a high note.
Each Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Present selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three spirits. But this season, he picked the wrong Scrooge. Clint Briggs turns the tables on his ghostly host until Present finds himself reexamining his own past, present and future.
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- contemporarynostalgic
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- Missyon TMDB · Dec 202510/10
I can’t believe it took me **three** years to finally complete the intent of watching **this**! 😆🥹😝🤧😄🤩😍🥰😊 I’m _[1]_ so glad I did and _[2]_ kicking myself for taking so long! Then again, it might actually seem like starting in 2022 December and finishing in 2025 December is exactly the minimal temporal shift necessary (in _this_ timeline 😉) to really appreciate the ‘miraculously’ _[i.e., talent, hard work, heart, love, care, heartbreak, hope, persistence, living, appreciation, generosity, … etc. ad infinitum]_ truly-human storied-narrative that even the divine would approve as one of the many things to finally define the best of humanity — something all the universe would want for us (as well as any sentient intelligence that seeks the nature of immersing within all that is light’s brilliance). Perhaps, _just in time_ to … ?
Read the whole review on TMDB - CinemaSerfon TMDB · Nov 20226/10
Wow, but this is all over the place. Based very loosely on the Dickens' character from his "A Christmas Carol" story, Will Ferrell is the Ghost of Christmas Present who now works for "Jacob Marley" (Patrick Page) trying to save irredeemable souls from purgatory. This is where Ryan Reynolds comes in. He is "Clint" - a successful influencer who is about as ruthless for his clients as it possible to be. "Present" concludes that if he can save him, then he can make a real difference to the future (despite the fact that he appears, already, to have rescued Dolly Parton!). Anyway, this is where the story gets a little more interesting. Rather than cowering in fear at his apparitions, "Clint" decides to turn the tables a bit and before we know it, he is challenging his protagonist to justify what he is doing and why. Unfortunately, though - and despite the presence of the usually reliable Octavia Spencer - the whole thing just peters out all too quickly with some predictably slapstick humour and a few rather dull piano/guitar ballads from an out-of-sorts Messrs. Pasek and Paul that have some potent lyrics now and again, but those are largely overwhelmed by the fact that Reynolds cannot si
Read the whole review on TMDB - Manuel São Bentoon TMDB · Dec 20226/10
MORE SPOILER-FREE MINI-REVIEWS @ https://www.msbreviews.com/movie-reviews/mini-reviews-2022-edition/ "Spirited efficiently applies a Christmas formula. Harnessing the undeniable, palpable chemistry between Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell, along with original holiday tunes filled with the typical humor from the actors, Sean Anders delivers a musical entertaining enough to entertain the average spectator. Not all the songs succeed, nor their timing in the story is always the right one, and the generic narrative doesn't exactly help with the surprise factor. Still, I'm happy enough with the essential message that people can, in fact, change for the better." Rating: B-
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Cast
- Will FerrellPresent
- Ryan ReynoldsClint Briggs
- Octavia SpencerKimberly
- Patrick PageMarley
- Sunita ManiPast
- Loren G. WoodsYet-To-Come
- Tracy MorganYet-To-Come (voice)
- Joe TippettOwen
- Marlow BarkleyWren / Young Carrie
- Aimee CarreroNora
Crew
- Sean AndersDirector
- Sean AndersWriter
- John MorrisWriter
- Charles DickensNovel
- Kramer MorgenthauDirector of Photography
- Dominic LewisOriginal Music Composer
- Brad WilhiteEditor
- David KoplanProducer
- Jessica ElbaumProducer
- George DeweyProducer
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