One of the best Christmas movies ever made...

@plipogamez3173

5 жыл бұрын

This film is not cheesy, and Bill Murray depicts parts of our personalities that we often choose to pretend do not exist.

Scrooged is one of the few movie I watch every single year during Christmas time.

@olliesmith2890

3 жыл бұрын

Totally agree.

Showed my kids this for the first time yesterday. They loved it. Sometimes movies like this are better for kids than adults. It’s soft of a gateway between the kids movies they grew up with and the much more adult themed movies they will watch as they get older. It’s uniqueness adds to its charm.

This, It's A Wonderful Life and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation are the only movies I absolutely HAVE to watch every year around Christmas.

Totally disagree with the "anger" issues. I thought the whole movie is a classic and holds up phenomenally!!

@sha11235

7 жыл бұрын

Well, Murray does seem a little more angry in this film than in other films. He can be gruff, but you realize he is joking. Here it didn't look that way. Maybe that was the idea, since he is supposed to be this mean guy, but does it really work?

@mr.doobsie58

5 жыл бұрын

@@sha11235 That's because he plays Scrooge. That was one mean crumpy, old basterd. So i think Bill Marray portrait him really good.

@LinkMarioSamus

4 жыл бұрын

I'm with you, but to be fair this movie probably is a very unpleasant watch if you don't find it funny. Thankfully I did.

@mantauromanatardo1125

4 жыл бұрын

I always saw this movie as a black comedy.That's the tone of this film.So i don't get the complaints.

@DAGATHire

3 жыл бұрын

personally, i think it's a pretty crap movie through out.

Scrooged is Still my Absolutely Favorite version of A Christmas Carol. It's freaking hilarious and still heartwarming.

Scrooged Blu-ray goo.gl/rY7Orn Get the Scrooged Soundtrack here goo.gl/Q8inBB This review was published over 3 years ago, only the other week BBC Worldwide blocked it worldwide due to a clip of the TV show 'Bottom' which was used in reference to shows I watch over the Xmas period. I've dealt with the BBC before and they never budge on copyright claims due to the TV licensing act in the UK. So i've had to edit out the clip, i've made tiny adjustments throughout as well to some of the images but the overall review hasn't changed.

@Vegeta8300

7 жыл бұрын

Oliver Harper Well, it's new to me! Merry Early Xmas to me! :)

@Vegeta8300

7 жыл бұрын

Oliver Harper Glad you got it sorted. It would be a shame for one of your vids to not be available to watch.

@dessertstorm7476

7 жыл бұрын

surely the BBC can't dictate what is fair use and what isn't? Or is it just not worth the trouble?

@rodster6campingprepper

7 жыл бұрын

Yet the BBC happily employ and cover up pedos for decades. Hence why I'll never pay a tv license.

@dickiedocker

7 жыл бұрын

Oliver Harper Oliver will you do the black hole and blue thunder?

Yes Ebert, that's why the movie is funny, because it has a frenzied, anxious and somewhat mean streak to the comedy. I can't believe I saw this in a theater when I was a kid!

Great film, this is one christmas film i actually take the time to watch it at christmas, most christmas films are annoying but this one is clever, funny and not all corny.

Just watched this with my mom last night. Classic movie, one of my favorite adaptations of the story.

When it comes to Ebert, I just can't take movie advice from the guy who wrote "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls..."

@zadehgenerous8279

5 жыл бұрын

PleasurePlanetDeathtrap beautiful name bb

Funny thing is im just now gettin that Richard Pryor joke, i never knew he cought himself on fire once lol.

How could anyone think Murray's performance at the end was over the top?? Look at what the character had just been through!

@ZyxthePest

5 ай бұрын

THIS IS WHAY I'M SAYING!!!! I feel like it's a far more realistic take on Dickens' work, which DOES overlap with horror. Dude just went through hell and we're supposed to expect to see him jumping for joy? He's having a nervous breakdown as he tries to convey his change of heart.

This is one of my favourite Xmas movies. It's nice to spot familiar actors from Lethal weapon movies and other movies as well.

I watch this every December and like how it ends with the whole speech Bill Murray made and the song Put a little Love in your Heart

Lee Majors saved Christmas! Thanks Lee!

I read somewhere, I think on Danny Elfman's Album Song's from a Darkened Theatre that he that he though his score got burried in this film. To me after Beetlejuice & Edward Scirrorhands that this is one of his more memorable scores. Especially the opening sleigh bells & la la la. I have a soft spot for this film having seen it at the cinema as a child & always loved the Lennox/Al Green basicly Eurythmics verion of Put A Little Love in your heart tune. Although in the video they clearly were filmed apart & spliced together. I personaly like the potrail of ghost of Christmas future with all the clobbering. I wish there was a special edition version of this film. with a perhaps a commentary, music videos, cut sceens, bloopers & b roll extra

Such an underrated movie

I'm glad you don't include Siskel and Ebert parts anymore, your reviews stand on their own without having their opinions (I also can't stand them)

@preachercaine

7 жыл бұрын

They're still in there

@Scottie_S

7 жыл бұрын

Mr Zeus They're both dead so you must be happy now.

@RandomAssaultPodcast

7 жыл бұрын

preachercaine I meant they aren't in his new reviews, I wouldnt want him to cut them out of old reviews

@RandomAssaultPodcast

7 жыл бұрын

Mr Zeus I was trying to restrain my true feelings but yeah, they infuriate me with how averse to violence they are, they sound like babies

@willemverheij3412

7 жыл бұрын

They liked Pulp Fiction actually. They have their own taste in movies which I can respect even when I don't agree with it.

I love how this is basically a parody of the original story.

Thanks for the reminder of this film. Haven't watched it in years still love it... ( you inspired me to purchase it) Thanks for the always high quality of your reviews!

This is was of those corny movies that always make me teary eyed when it comes to Bill Murray's sad angry reaction when he opens his brother's gift and its a picture of them as kids and when he sees the unhappy boy in a mental institution

Interesting you mention Murray's big speech being like a mental breakdown, the writers thought also: "Murray gave an emotional and manic performance, deviating from his marked positions and improvising his speech. Glazer and O'Donoghue [the writers] thought that the actor was suffering a mental breakdown. After he was finished, the crew applauded Murray, but O'Donoghue remarked "What was that? The Jim Jones hour?". Donner turned and punched O'Donoghue in the arm, leaving him bruised for a week". Perrin, Dennis (July 1998). "Mr. Mike: The Life and Work of Michael O'Donoghue Hardcover". United States: Avon Books.

Oliver - you just made my day! One of my favorite Christmas movies! Thanks for the retrospective!

Watching this on Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas everyone.

How did you NOT mention Alfre Woodard when describing the rest of the cast? She's classic.

Your editing is masterful Ollie, so well done.... This, and Home Alone 1 and II are my favourite Christmas films.

Easily my favorite version of Scrooge and its just a great movie .

I'd watch this version of A Christmas Carol over any other every time!🤪

I can watch this movie in July it is so good.

I allways thougt the ghost of Christmas present is soo agresive with him because , he hated himself. and that all ghost where made based in him, at least their appearence.

I've seen 'Scrooged' maybe 5 or 6 times and never noticed Bill accidentally whacking Alfre until now (13:15). Lol!

throwing bottom Christmas episode in there 👏👏👏👏 you are the man Oliver

This film is Christmas 🎄 classic.The film also does show the darker edge the 80s had.

So when are you going to do a Retrospective / Review of Groundhog Day then? :)

@rogerpattube

5 жыл бұрын

So when are you going to do a Retrospective / Review of Groundhog Day then? :)

Just ahead of the times I guess… Turns out this is one of the greatest Christmas movies of all time!

My three favorite Christmas movies - Die Hard Lethal Weapon and . . . Scrooged 😁

One of the best X-Mas movies from my childhood.

Funny thing: Murray later said he didn't enjoy making the film because the script was great but he had issues with Donner on how the story should go. Also, the co-writer Michael O'Donoghue, hated the finished film too, although this was basically the only screenplay he got made near the end of his life.

Absolutely love this movie and is among the best christmas films for me, definitely a top 10 for me, its a staple in my christmas viewing schedule along with a christmas story, its a wonderful life, gremlins, trading places, santa claus the movie, home alone and planes trains and automobiles. I totally disagree with the weak complaint of anger issues, honestly does that Robert Ebert actually like anything?? Opionions are subjective with movies and music etc, we all like different things. but i could count on 1 hand the number of movies ive seen him actually give credit, he gives idiotic reasons for disliking something instead of trying to be professional about something. 'Critics' like him are the reason why i dont read or listen to reviews about movies, if i like it then i like it regardless of how good or bad a critic thinks it is. Anyway, this is a superb christmas movie and an all round great bill murray movie for me and i think has aged really well. The performances are wonderful, the relationship with Claire and frank is so believable and bobcat's comedy is spot on without going too overboard. I also think the 3 designs for the ghosts are wonderful and fresh. Having David Johansen as the ghost of christmas past and being a cabbie, such a funny idea excecuted well. I also disagree about the ending when hes giving his speech, i dont think it feels out of place at all, i read it was mostely ablibbed and murray was going off a basic script for that bit and added his own dialogue, to me its a great part of the film and shows he has finally seen the light, hes embraced the good in and around him, he puts across his emotions very well and it feels and looks genuine, hes literally come to tears become he feels good and happy and i dont think he went overboard at all. It fits in the film for me, it gives it a great emotional but happy end, where as if he;d have said the same dialogue but low key and calm, it wouldnt have the same effect.

1,000th like for this vid, man! I'm still (slowly) making my way through all the backlog (not sure if you remember me, I made a comment a few years ago and you replied telling me your Lethal Weapon 2 one was coming out soon... although since I'm going in chronological order, I have yet to reach that one, as I go at a snail's pace, haha...) Love this movie. ...And great review.

Scrooged isn't just a great Christmas movie, it's a great movie.

Great review. I enjoyed this film and have it in my collection. As for what you say regarding how Hollywood should do something modern and original... that is such a rare thing for them. I'm not sure they know how to do that anymore.

One of my favorite Christmas movies

It's a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34 Street and Scrouged. Thats the season for me right there.

1:41 - speaking of Little Shop of Horrors, that'd be a great retrospective episode, too.

This is my fav' Christmas film, I know Bill hated working with Donnor but I disagree with Murray losing his mind at the end, I think his performance in the end sequence is quite brilliant,it shows his character unfolding in front of your eyes,his wall of meaness and isolation has been removed after being faced with his own death.

@sha11235

7 жыл бұрын

Actually, he did improvise that final speech and Michael O'Donoghue, the co-writer of the film, thought Murray was having a breakdown.

I love this movie so much the nastalgia of watching this with my dad as a kid

I'd fucking love them to release The Night The Reindeer Died.

@Tactical_Therapist

7 жыл бұрын

I'm with ya on that bro!

@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control

7 жыл бұрын

We got to see Lee Majors as Bruce Campbell's dad in Ash vs Evil dead. That's a check off the bucket list.

Probably my favorite Christmas movies.

2:45 - was Bill's eyeliner something that was mentioned in the film as part of the character?

love this film a lot

the shot with Santa and the gun reminds me of Fatman

This is a film you appreciate when you get a little older (over 25)

Watch this every Christmas, along with Die Hard. Its not as classic as say Ghostbusters or Groundhog Day, in terms of Bill Murray's best, but its a wonderful movie all the same.

one of my favs... then christmas vacation...then elf/and or jim carrey's grinch....

oh come on the interaction between Bill Murray and Carol Kane as the ghost of christmas present is a highlight of the movie and most reviews of the time highlighted her performance. Still each to their own

Scrooged is my favorite Christmas movie.

i like that movie and watch it again. Soon 60k subs,You are getting momentum

I’d like to see a Christmas Carol but where it’s flipped where the guy is a real nice guy and loves Christmas but is running himself ragged and is a total doormat

My favorite part has to be the commercial for it... Acid rain, drug addictions, international terrorism. "We can't show that on TV!" - It was so ahead of its time.

Love this movie!

I think the fighting between Carol Kane and Bill Murray was funny because she is about a foot shorter than him and probably 100 pounds. More importantly, it subverted the expectation of how both this tiny, high-pitched fairy character would act and how the Ghost of Christmas Present should act. This is not jolly giant of a man representing peace on earth. That said, all humor is subjective. It was slapstick and pretty "Three Stooges"-esque which isn't everyone's cup of tea.

I love this movie!

I'll stick with Alistair Sim in 'Scrooge' 1951 or continue watching the great Richard Williams 'A Christmas Carol' 1971 animated (too) short film. No one has really made a definitive version (perhaps that's why they keep trying) of the traditional 'A Christmas Carol' story but those come closest for me

Every year this comes on channel 4 or 5. It's tradition.

Oliver, have you ever seen Dutch (1991),starring Ed O'Neill? Also written by John Hughes.

You should do a Retrospective on the movie Footloose

"let kindness be your guide,put a little love in your heart"i watch scrooged every christmas always ends with niagra falls frankie angel this movie the ref,die hard&gremlins are my x-mas movies!

Is the music during the beginning from Beetlejuice or it is from Scrooged and just that similar?

@veritan6628

7 жыл бұрын

Starting at 1:01

Bah Humbug to the suits who keeps making Oille re-upload cool reviews like Scrooged.

I can't believe you didn't get the sadomasochistic faerie bit. If it was just a regular faerie it wouldn't have been funny.

@sgabig

5 ай бұрын

it's slapstick 3 Stooges humor

I guess I don't really like A Christmas Carol, or stories like it for one main reason. It always just feels like Ebenezer Scrooge is basically FORCED to change his ways, cause he knows where he'll end up if he doesn't; trapped in chains forever with all these other doomed souls. If he was visited by the three ghosts first and then after he changes his ways he's visited by Jacob Marley the night after, and knows what he escaped, it'd feel more genuine.

Oliver are ever going to do a review of Beetlejuice? I would love for you to talk about that :D

11:53 You don't watch A Christmas Story?

The reason the ghost of Christmas present beats the shit out of him constantly is she represents all the women he abused in life. Remember the "nipples" scene? It was hard for a PG-13 so I'm guessing a lot was trimmed for the rating and a family appeal, as Siskel said.

This, Die Hard (1988) and Gremlins (1984) are THE 3 Christmas films for me

@timvillani82

6 жыл бұрын

SamiZaynIsLife dont forget batman returns

@arizonaFIREent

4 жыл бұрын

@@timvillani82 was about to say the same haha

If you ever wonder what the hell happened when Roger Ebert reviewed this movie, just remember that he gave Crash 4 stars and called it the best movie of 2005. I love Ebert, but he was quite often wrong.

Always thought that the mirror in the draw was a vane thing . But now eerrr its defo for cocaine lol

god bless us everyone!

TV critics, if they had talent, ability or creativity they’d be making films, not watching the fruits of others

@imcallingjapan2178

3 жыл бұрын

Roger Ebert did write

time and retrospections always change the way a movie is perceived but roger seems to me to get a lot of great movies wrong once they have only come out, maybe after a few years his opinion would change slightly just like the way a lot of ours did

Please re-upload the Santa Claus: The Movie review/retrospective.

Now become a Xmas classic !! Murray at his best

@davidnolan6162

3 жыл бұрын

He is unreal in this film

um... he DID have a breakdown... that was the point of the ghosts... how can people not understand that? they were breaking him, in order to change him

The anger is warranted. For starters Cross is a egomaniacal control freak who fancies himself as perfect. He then has a cathartic moment when he realises its all bull because he is not who he hoped he would be, a good person. He is angry at himself and ashamed of his behavior and publicly humiliating himself by admitting he is not perfect and he has lied to himself. He has become a person who is free enough to be silly and light hearted transitioned through ritual of anger and shame. Makes perfect sense for the character.

Scrooged (1988) - Rotrospective/Review Special Edition

It's 28 years old.

@JustJohnny

7 жыл бұрын

Reupload from 3-4 years ago...

Nipple? What nipple? Naw! Not like I'd see that nipple on a 12 or 24 inch CRT! Let alone on a B&W screen? NAW!

OMG! Wendie Malick was in this?!

@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control

7 жыл бұрын

She plays the sister-in-law.

@sha11235

7 жыл бұрын

There were so many celebs in this. It is like Cannonball Run or New Year's Eve.

How many fingers does Mrs. Claus have? ...Eleven! ...Yeah.. Eleven it's crap! I don't want it on my wall...

ghost of the future always scared the shite out of me

why you didn't mention the polar express

Ebert always made the worst picks. This film is a classic.

@philhahn

3 жыл бұрын

I feel Ebert was a rejected writer who now has a chip on his shoulder about it... Seems nothing pleases those two lol

@ricardocantoral7672

2 жыл бұрын

He generally called it right and though I enjoy Scrooged, Roger was on point with some of his complaints.

@ricardocantoral7672

2 жыл бұрын

@@philhahn What a silly thing to say, especially about Roger who was slammed by Armond White because he thought the former was too lenient on films.

BOTTOM!

The greatest Christmas movie, IMO. Never really cared for HOME ALONE or CHRISTMAS VACATION, if we're speaking of "mean spirited and dark" I actually find SCROOGED to have a lot more heart and emotional weight, and the whole POINT is that he's a mean and shallow man who realized the value of love and human compassion. It's a fun movie! Weird to see how badly it was initially reviewed!

Call it 21st century bias, but I'd actually be more pissed over Cross' false advertising than the trailer itself. I would be pretty bummed if a trailer promised acid rain, drug addiction, international terrorism, freeway killers, and nuclear holocaust and it was all for freaking "A Christmas Carol".

Excellent movie and hilarious dark humor IMO, and Siskel and Ebert once again had their heads up their butts, and were way off on the movie IMO

The more I listen to Ebert the more I understand that he has a terrible taste in movies, especially the more sophisticated ones.

@sha11235

7 жыл бұрын

Roger was right about some of the things he said. He found out later from Bill about the making of the film and why he had those reactions. I've read some stuff too over the years, and Roger was right about Bill's closing speech seeming like he was having a breakdown. Michael O'Donoghue, who cowrote the film thought the same shit while watching Bill do that scene.

Annie Lennox was such a hottie