Why the new Grinch is a weak, and absolutely garbage Grinch compared to Jim Carrey’s Grinch.
Firstly, Benedict Cumberbinch is in no way a viable voice actor. He may be suitable for more serious roles, and I acknowledge that.
What I cannot forgive?
It is Illumination Studios insatiable need to make more of a profit off of a well known children’s tale. The entire point of both the original 1966 version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas with Boris Karloff and Jim Carrey’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas was to emphasize that Christmas is not JUST about buying and receiving gifts. HOWEVER, Illumination studios and the Grinch do not emphasize that but instead try to make Benedict Cumberbinch a soft and totally flat character. There is no character development whatsoever and most of the focus is on Cindy Lou Who, who is a somewhat vital character, but is not THE main charatcer. We, as the audience, are supposed to view the Grinch’s original stance on Christmas and not how Cindy wants to help her mom.
The main plot is that the Grinch is essentially sick of how the Who’s down in Whoville make Christmas this whole shopping extravaganza and make it into an over the top gluttony session of gifts and food with no limit.
In The Grinch, it literally is Cumberbinch being a soggy piece of bread who instead has social anxiety and doesn’t really progress the story until the main part of taking the presents. Jim Carrey also gives active character and attitude to the Grinch and Benedict Cumberbinch acts like a teenager who has to go errand shopping with his mom. There is no good voice acting other than the fact that he gets hit by things. Jim Carry’s rendition was at least decently thought out, but Illumination Studio does not care about quality, but instead they care about how much money they can rake in by using their cheap animation to pump out a cash cow. The only reason they begged Cucumberman is because they know people (mainly millenials obsessed with him) would flock to the movies to hear his voice. They also decided to toss in some other celebrities so that their movie would be somewhat recognizable from their mindless minion dribble for the parents. Not to forget that they literally used an old YouTube trend of screaming goat to appeal to the kids. Which was not only obnoxiously obtrusive but devalued the movie’s quality even further.
This was my overall thoughts since it seems to have gained some more traction especially being December and all. I may post a part 2 answering questions as to why I have this opinion. But anyways, Happy Holidays!!
