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Next, Spirit of Christmas Present (James Javore) takes Scrooge to Bob Cratchit's (Tony Aylward) house. Here, Scrooge watches loving family members care for each other and for a young waif, Tiny Tim, played to his adorable waifness by Daniel DeMarco. Upon seeing the love this family musters despite its destitution, Scrooge edges ever closer to regaining his past glory...
...merry Christmas, Bob!" said Ebenezer Scrooge to his clerk Bob Cratchit after waking from his nightmare in Dickens' A Christmas Carol. "A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year!" America's merchants this year can feel as happy as Bob Cratchit, for consumers are giving them their merriest Christmas for many a year...
...dults. Who's making a comeback to cartooning's silver screen? Why, M-I-C-K-E-Y . . . MOUSE, 54, erstwhile star of Steamboat Willie and The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Yup, Mickey's back in his first major role since 1952, this time playing Bob Cratchit in Mickey's Christmas Carol, a Disneyed version of the Charles Dickens tale. Due out at year's end, the fully animated, 24-min. featurette reunites Mickey with some old friends, including Minnie Mouse as his wife, Scrooge McDuck as Ebenezer Scrooge, Goofy as Marley's Ghost...
Christmas is a time when people reach for their Dickens, in their minds if not on their bookshelves. The prevailing sentiments of the season, after all, stem as much from Dickens' Scrooge and Bob Cratchit as from the Christian church or Macy's. Thus this compendium of material by and about England's greatest popular novelist is timely. Not too timely, though, for it is no glossy candy box of a book. Unillustrated and unpretentious, its value will endure many Christmases...
Unfortunately, Briscusse feels obliged to make practically everyone else sing a lot. The ever so cute street urchins with the absolutely charming Cockney accents have a comic song, and Bob Cratchit sings a merry Christmas tune, and Tiny Tim gives us a wistful little solo, and Fezziwig's daughter, in Christmas past, has a beautiful love song, none of which make me want to buy the sound track. Aside from the mediocrity of the music, the problem is that Dickens is already about as full of sentimentality as a writer can be without being positively offensive, and this kind...