YMMV / Scrooge: A Christmas Carol

• Alternate Character Interpretation: When Bob Cratchit gives some money the charity collectors, his daughter Kathy glares off to the side. Is she annoyed that her father is giving money away when they have so little to spare? Or is she glaring in the direction of Scrooge's nearby window, out of annoyance that Scrooge is so stingy despite having so much more to give than her generous father?
• Awesome Music:
  • "Tell Me", an intense operatic song that perfectly encapsulates Scrooge's hatred of the Christmas season and his annoyance at people's insistance that he should be merry.
  • "Later Never Comes" has been widely praised as the best song in the film, and for good reason. Jessie Buckley and Luke Evans both bring their A-game in this performance, not to mention the absolutely gorgeous high notes from Scrooge.^note For added awesome, Evans belts out these notes in a full head voice in a B4 register, and holds the note for an impressive amount of time.
• Crosses the Line Twice: This film takes Scrooge's bad future and runs away with it completely. His funeral is a huge parade with all the townspeople taking part and Prudence trying to warn an oblivious Scrooge. Jenkins leads the crowd into paying their Last Disrespects and does a tap dance on his coffin. The alms collectors hold pies with the words "Good" and "Riddance" baked onto them.
• Estrogen Brigade: Ebenezer Scrooge is portrayed here as a distinguished Silver Fox with a snarky demeanour and impressive singing voice courtesy of Luke Evans. It's not too surprising that he's attracted so many fangirls.
• Magnificent Bastard: The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is the final ghost Scrooge encounters on his road to redemption, as well as the most terrifying. Introduced transforming the friendly Ghost of Christmas Present into himself, the silent Ghost takes Scrooge into the future where countless people are celebrating his death, before taking him to the grave of Tiny Tim. After showing Scrooge his own grave, to make sure Scrooge has really learned his lesson, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come causes a nightmarish sequence where he is forever chained for his sins and falls into a dark abyss.
• Memetic Mutation: "Dilf/Gilf Scrooge"^Explanation The titular miser's redesign for this film has garnered some... interesting reactions.
• Most Wonderful Sound: Scrooge's high notes in "Later Never Comes" are heavenly to listen to.
• Older Than They Think:
  • This is hardly the first adaptation to have gone the Adaptational Diversity route with the 1997 animated film having both genderflipped and race-lifted the Ghost of Christmas Present, Ebenezer (1998) having genderflipped and race-lifted the Ghost of Christmas Past and A Christmas Carol: The Musical having gender-flipped the Ghosts of Christmas Past and Future female and the Ghost of Christmas Present black.
  • Likewise, Canine Companion Prudence has a forerunner from the 1997 animated film in the form of Debit, a male bulldog in contrast to a female dog of no identifiable breed.
  • This is the second version to rewrite Scrooge's childhood to resemble that of Charles Dickens and have him work in a shoe-blacking factory after his father is sent to debtors' prison. A Christmas Carol: The Musical also does this.