Muppets Christmas Carol - film

Wibbles · December 9

My wife has just admitted that she has never seen this classic film

I had hoped that it would be shown at some point over Christmas but apparently Disney has it all sewn up - preventing even Youtube from showing it… BBC /ITV are not showing it.

This really annoys me - does anybody know of any way of viewing the movie ?

Wibbles · December 9

I've found it on INTERNET ARCHIVE website https://dn710109.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-muppet-christmas-carol-vhs-1993/The%20Muppet%20Christmas%20Carol%20VHS%201993.mp4

but this is from VHS so is somewhat lacking in quality

Tony60 · December 9

The one with Michael Caine well not a lot of people know this but you may find a cheap copy of the DVd in your local charity shop.

Chris75_ · December 9

I have noticed they stopped showing 'Scrooge' the musical (1970) with Albert Finney, Alex Guinness, Gordon Jackson, Laurence Naismith and more. I could be wrong, but i believe the film was shot on the set used in 'Oliver!'.

Regarding the Muppets version, i find it is quite faithful to the novel, as much as a film for children can be.

I appear to be contradicting my earlier anti Christmas posts, but i actually read the novel every year, and used to attempt to watch every film version shown that year; the 1935 starring Seymour Hicks is my favourite.

WhatThe · December 9

Wibbles, I must confess I've never seen it…

BUT I do have The Twelve Days of Christmas by The Muppets on CD and It's not (a happy) Christmas until I've listened to it with my daughter several times!

NeuroEve · December 9

It’s one of our family favourites, hope you can find it on a dvd somewhere. I love it.

StarryEyed · December 10

Fabulous movie 👍😊

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1089641#Comment_1089641

Yeah, I was suspicious, seeing how Gus looks at you.

Rosie_Scope · December 11

This is my absolute favourite Christmas film! They're showing it at my local cinema so I'm going with a friend at the weekend 😁

If you don't mind spending a little bit but don't want to join Disney Plus, I think you can rent it on YouTube for around £4.

Muppets Treasure Island is good too if you haven't seen it! Hope you can find a copy somewhere!

KG100 · December 15

I bought the DVD of it and watch it every year.

Also just watched the 1935 Seymour Hicks version of Scrooge, that's also good.

Chris75_ · December 15

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1090930#Comment_1090930

The 1935 version is great, if you can find a decent copy. Quite possibly heresy, but I prefer it to the 1951 Alastair Sim version; great film as it is.