How the Grinch Stole Christmas 2000

He puts the mean in green.

6.8 / 10   7142 vote(s)
PG
Family Comedy Fantasy

The Grinch decides to rob Whoville of Christmas - but a dash of kindness from little Cindy Lou Who and her family may be enough to melt his heart...

Release Date 2000-11-17
Runtime 1h 44m
Directors Janet Hirshenson, Jane Jenkins, Ron Howard, Todd Hallowell, Aldric La'Auli Porter, Donald Peterman, Dan Webster, David Hyman
Producers Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Todd Hallowell, Aldric La'Auli Porter, Louisa Velis, David Womark, Linda Fields, Julian Levi, Joyce Cox, Kurt Williams
Writers Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman, Dr. Seuss

Really good watch, will eventually watch again, and can recommend, but less so for younger audiences.

I never remembered all the weird adult humor in this, it is usually just the charming grinchiness of Jim Carey's overacting that sticks with me, and maybe the Christmas spirit of Mary Lou Who.

The movie manages to ride this wonderfully line between keeping the spirit of the book (even rhyming at times) and being new and refreshing, but it does do that by playing to the adults that would have read the book as a child rather than endearing a new generation of children, but I think they intended to try to do both.

Jim Carey embodies the Grinch like no one else possibly could (I think Mike Myers proved that in "The Cat in the Hat"), and that is the majority of this so if you don't enjoy him, then you won't enjoy this movie. I do think they added some refreshing character interactions, though some of the execution is much better than others.

While it is far from a perfect movie, my biggest gripe is their stupid noses: it seriously bothers me the entire movie. It bothers me more than them dressing the Grinch, which points out that he is naked a LOT with his "co lead" being a young girl: you can see it just distracts from the spirit of the movie.

I don't think that everyone is going to love this movie, but it's hard to imagine that people will hate it.

Kamurai

Really good watch, will eventually watch again, and can recommend, but less so for younger audiences.

I never remembered all the weird adult humor in this, it is usually just the charming grinchiness of Jim Carey's overacting that sticks with me, and maybe the Christmas spirit of Mary Lou Who.

The movie manages to ride this wonderfully line between keeping the spirit of the book (even rhyming at times) and being new and refreshing, but it does do that by playing to the adults that would have read the book as a child rather than endearing a new generation of children, but I think they intended to try to do both.

Jim Carey embodies the Grinch like no one else possibly could (I think Mike Myers proved that in "The Cat in the Hat"), and that is the majority of this so if you don't enjoy him, then you won't enjoy this movie. I do think they added some refreshing character interactions, though some of the execution is much better than others.

While it is far from a perfect movie, my biggest gripe is their stupid noses: it seriously bothers me the entire movie. It bothers me more than them dressing the Grinch, which points out that he is naked a LOT with his "co lead" being a young girl: you can see it just distracts from the spirit of the movie.

I don't think that everyone is going to love this movie, but it's hard to imagine that people will hate it.

Kamurai

I'm not gonna lie, this version of the Grinch scared the crap out of me when I was a kid!

But as I got older I started to get use to it. The trick was to just listen to the whole thing without looking at it and gradually (each year take a peak).

Peter89Spencer

At first I didn't like this movie. It's one of my daughters favorites tho. So she would always want to watch a lot around Christmas time. Now I don't mind it and it's like a Christmas tradition for us now to watch this movie.

Andre Gonzales

This is my favorite version and has been my favorite since I was a small child.

Courtney