Disney’s A Christmas Carol

<p>On this Scrooge Sunday edition of the Advent Calendar House, we venture into the uncanny valley on a trip back to 2009 to rewatch Disney’s motion capture nightmare version of “A Christmas Carol,” starring 4 Jim Carreys, 3 Gary Oldmans, 2 Robin Wrights, and a Cary Elwes in a pear shape.</p><hr /><h4>On This Episode:</h4><ol><li><strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), a touch cross-eyed and mysteriously shrinking for no reason.</li><li><strong>Matt Weiland</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/DinnahDawg">@DinnahDawg</a>), chasing me through the streets of the future in a phantom hearse, and a fee-free Disney Vacation Planner at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MattsDreamDestinations">Matt’s Dream Destinations</a>.</li></ol><hr /><h4>Topics and Tangents:</h4><ol><li>Watch <a href="https://www.disneyplus.com/movies/disneys-a-christmas-carol/QnakzyiFzOeP">“A Christmas Carol’ on Disney+</a> while it’s still there for the Christmas season.</li><li>Respect to a Disney movie that jumps from a <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StorybookOpening">storybook opening</a> to a corpse’s face.</li><li>Despite being the 5th highest grossing Christmas movie as of 2020, this is also considered one of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biggest_box-office_bombs">biggest box-office bombs of all time</a>.</li><li>Coins on a corpse’s eyes in 19th century England had less to do with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon%27s_obol#Coins_on_the_eyes?">paying the ferryman’s toll</a> and more to do with <a href="https://moncurdg.com/2019/08/03/pennies-on-dead-peoples-eyes/">keeping their eyes closed</a>.</li><li>Cary Elwes, who plays one of the “portly” solicitors, is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cary_Elwes#Early_life">descendant of John Elwes</a>, a real-life inspiration for the character Scrooge.</li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJP1m8XfXqA">Christopher Walken as Captain Hook in “Peter Pan Live” and forgetting hi