Well, I hope you all had a great and exciting Christmas this year, me I personally had a great time surrounded by some cherished Christmas films including DIE HARD. Though it can't be a excellent Christmas if we don't talk about the Jim Carrey Classic, as well as its 25th Anniversary of the film’s release, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Luckily, this found itself on the Peacock subscription app, so if you have it or not this is certain Christmas film worth watching. Though this is for certain one of Jim Carrey's finest and granddaddy of a comedic performance before he lost his mind until twenty years before his comedic comeback with Sonic the Hedgehog. Though in all fairness I don't have a clue if they’re good or not, moreover I don't feel the need.
In this live action of the beloved children's tale by Dr. Seuss, the reclusive green Grinch (Jim Carrey) decides to ruin Christmas for the cheery citizens of Whoville. Reluctantly joined by a hapless dog, Max, the Grinch comes down from his mountaintop home and sneaks into town to swipe everything holiday-related from Whos. However, the bitter grump finds a hitch in his plans when he encounters the endearing Cindy Lou Who (Taylor Momsen)
Long before Dr. Seuss aka Theodor Seuss Geisel passed away in 1991, Dr. Seuss pledged that he would never sell the film rights to his books. For which in all fairness, I would understand his viewpoints because let’s be honest three years later after this film’s release, Universal Studios released a live action movie of The Cat in the Hat staring Mike Myers and well, look if you see photos of the movie on Google, you'll understand why it looks awful hell, even I as a freshman in high school thought it was awful. Now getting back to topic, after the great doctor's passing his widow Audrey Geisel began entertaining several merchandising deals, including clothing lines, accessories, and CDs. To make a long story short, major studios had a knife fight (figuratively) to negotiate the rights for all of Dr. Seuss's book. Luckily Brain Grazer, who was representing Universal, with the help of Ron Howard made the widow an offer she couldn't refuse and with Jim Carrey at the starring helm, the rest became history. I actually remembered watching this great film especially when at the time Jim Carrey was still a thing after making so, many films in the 90's so, in all fairness they're a reason why this film was going to be a thing moreover came out on my birthday and when we went to the film at our local theater, outside was already turning into the snowy blizzard and not the Dairy Queen kind if you catch my drift. Even twenty-five years since the film’s release it's still incredible especially when you have Jim Carrey playing the title character, and I think the beauty of the film is Ron Howard trusted Carrey with his comedic talents that I would imagine he told Carrey "look just do you're thing and will follow along", and it's one of those comedic talents that I don't think you can even mimic or use as inspiration for when you want to be a comedian like sure it may be outdated but his performance in this movie you can see how creative he is when creating the Grinch it feels like he's this crazy person that's always had the opposite view of Christmas but has been deranged because of spending his entire life in a cave, for which ether way Jim Carrey is excellent no matter, how you want to analyze his performance in the movie. And it's not just Carrey's performance that's great it's also his supporting cast in the movie as well, especially Molly Shannon who does a great job playing Cindy Lou's Mom, who does a great comedic job playing a mom being obsessed with the Christmas decorating and is always competing with Christine Baranski playing Martha May whose oversexualized in this movie and she's great as well, just because the adult content she's able to get away with in this movie is funny as well as amazing because when I saw this as a young age I didn't care much about her other than she was in love with the Grinch and yet the surprising factor is that Christine Baranski later in life played Leonard's mom in The Big Bang Theory, for which I find shocking because if I met Leonard now I would later tell him his mom was kind of a hottie back in the day, just so he can be traumatized. Jeffery Tambor who has been in certain things though you'll have to look up his filmography does a great job playing the antagonist in the movie as the mayor who always judges the Grinch but he's the mayor because he always gets what he wants which again that's a reason why he does a great job in this movie. Talking about adult content in the movie besides Christine Baranski, a lot of surprising adult content is shocking as well as funny especially when you first see the Baby Grinch and he lands in the middle of a Christmas key party (basically you put your keys in a bowl and whose keys you draw you get to bang that person with the keys just something from the 40's-70's) and rewatching this movie now, I'm shocked but yet find it funny because even kids like me back then didn't get that, for which I'm surprised what other adult content you can find in other family movies, gratefully they keep it a secret because the last thing you'd want to see is porno content in a family movie. This is defiantly a great Christmas movie to watch on the Holiday season granted Christmas is sort of over. But you can defiantly watch this movie a dozen times and feel entertained from start to finish but more importantly has great messages and themes about Christmas not being about gift giving or parties and treats it's all about being with friends and loved ones, moreover is appropriate for the kids to watch because if I at a young age can ignore the adult content I'm sure kids today can't tell the adult content in this movie besides Christine Baranski. Another great Christmas movie to put in my list of best Christmas films of all time, and Jim Carrey is perfect for the role as the Grinch furthermore Ron Howard deserves a lot of credit for this movie getting made because he at least has a sense of humor of letting Carrey impersonate him in one of the scenes. So, Merry Christmas everyone hopefully you're still having a great Christmas and still having a great Christmas moving into the weekend and if you went to a Sporting event on Christmas Day, I'd want to say I feel sorry for you, though it depends on which team you we're rooting for.
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