Balladeer’s Blog’s 14th annual Christmas Carol-A-Thon nears its inevitable end with this latest review.
BUGS BUNNY’S CHRISTMAS CAROL (1979) – When is an adaptation of A Christmas Carol NOT an adaptation of A Christmas Carol? When it features Warner Brothers cartoon characters. Nearly thirty years later WB would inflict on the world another version of the Carol that was just as soulless and joyless as this 1979 effort.
Regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog know I love to laugh, so I’m not being grumpy by knocking this 8-minute piece of animation. I don’t even require fidelity to the Dickens story since I’ve given very positive reviews to things like Blackadder’s Christmas Carol, which depart far from what Dickens wrote but are actually funny. Continue reading
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