| Accept no substitutes. The 1966 television adaptation of Dr. Seuss' timeless book How the Grinch Stole Christmas!--about an anti-Santa who tries to heist the holiday only to learn a powerful lesson--is a classic in its own right, and looking better than ever in its 50th Birthday Deluxe Edition. (For those doing the math, the 50 years is counting from the book's 1957 publishing date rather than the show's broadcast date.) The most significant improvement is in the digital transfer, cleaning up fuzz and specks and restoring the proper colors to the program. While the awful earlier DVDs showed the Grinch in a mustard-yellow color, this edition restores his proper green gleam. Special features are mostly ported over from the previous DVD--the Horton Hears a Who program, a featurette on the songs, Phil Hartman's special edition version, pencil tests, etc. minus the commentary track--but there is a new 15-minute featurette, "Dr. Seuss and the Grinch: From Whoville to Hollywood." While it starts out as a fluff piece aimed at the younger set (interviews with kids, some rapping), it does provide some interesting information, including interviews with the widows of Theodore Geisel and Chuck Jones and clips of Geisel and Jones' Private Snafu. (No mention of Jim Carrey, however.) --David Horiuchi |
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 Grinch is Great! |
| Review Date: July 2, 2010 |
| Reviewer: reen, |
| The Grinch is always a great Christmas time show and movie in our home. We have both. Grew up watch the 30 minute version every Christmas and now it is just tradition! |
Mean Grinch
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| Review Date: March 19, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Michael Patrick Boyd, Waukesha, WI |
How The Grinch Stole Christmas is twenty-five minutes and seventeen seconds long and originally aired on December 18, 1966. The main story is that the Grinch has been living on the mountain for over a half a century and can no longer stand the people down in Whoville celebrating Christmas; mainly he can't stand the noise, noise, noise. He gets an awful idea when he sees his dog Max covered in snow in a Santa Clause like way. So he quickly makes a quick Santa suit and hat. Since reindeers are scarce he ties a branch to Max's head and quickly gathers up some bags and put them on a sled and the two head to Whoville. Once in Whoville the Grinch still everything that has to do with the Christmas holiday. He almost gets away with it when Cindy Lou Who (who is no more then two) comes out from here bedroom to investigate a noise. She spots Santa taking the Christmas tree and asks why Santa. The Grinch thinks of a quick lie and gives Cindy a glass of water and send her to her room. The Grinch finish his job and takes all the full bags to the top of Mount Crumpit. Once at the top of the mountain the Grinch put a hand to his ear to hear all the people in Whoville cry boo hoo. Instead he hears the people of Whoville sing Welcome Christmas and is puzzled that Christmas came. After some deep thoughts the true meaning of Christmas comes to the Grinch and the Grinch returns all the Christmas decorations. The Whoville, who seem to be very forgiving, allow the Grinch to cut and serve the roast beast.
Also included in this DVD is the animated special is Horton Hears A Who is twenty-five minutes long and released in 1970. One day Horton is splashing in the lake when he hears a noise and begins looking around and sees a small speck floating in the air saying help. He rescues the small speck and strikes up a conversation with Dr. H. Hoovey. Later on Jane Kangaroo sees Horton talking to a flower and think he is nuts. She goes out of her way to put a stop to it. Her first attempt is foil when Horton finds the flower among the millions of other flowers that it was dropped into. In Jane Kangaroo second attempt she secures the Wickersham family aid (a bunch of monkey\apes) and they put Horton in a cage and try to destroy the speck in a pot of boiling water. Dr. H. Hoovey gathers all of the people of Whoville to yell to save their world. The people scream: We Are Here Finally one boy yells yolp and everyone hears the townsfolk and Horton is set free. In a way this is sort of social issues to it. How the small voice of a minority is put down by ignorant people on the majority. Both How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Horton Hears a Who gets an AAA+++.
DVD FEATURS
How The Grinch Stole Christmas!
Scene Selections
1. Special Features
2. Grinch Trivia Game
3. Grinch Pencil Tests
Trivia
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Horton Hears A Who!
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1. Horton Pencil Tests
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Still grinchly great, after all these years!
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| Review Date: February 8, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Chris, Vancouver |
| I loved it when I was a kid, my kids loved it and I'm sure my grandkids will too! |
Fantastic
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| Review Date: January 30, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Janet L. Dolbow, West Deptford NJ |
| My grandkids favorite christmas movie, fast shipping, and very pleased with the product, packaging etc. |
Reminds me of Christmases Past
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| Review Date: January 24, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Lisa AR Kastler, Minneapolis, MN USA |
| Before we were able to own any movie or favorite TV shows, we only had one opportunity a year to see this classic animated version of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". Now, we can own it and can enjoy the original voices and music whenever you want! It's just as good as you remember and you can share it with younger generations who don't have the attention span for the full length movie. |
Grinch
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| Review Date: January 21, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Donna Craig, Silver Spring, Md United States |
| I bought this as a gift for a Ginch freak and he was so excitied to have his own copy |
Dr. Suess - How the Grinch Stole Christmas/Horton Hears a Who DVD
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| Review Date: January 9, 2010 |
| Reviewer: J. Lofgreen, Tucson, Az |
| The classic cartoons are wonderful & give your kids a great message. The only problem is the menu screen to view the movies is not that user friendly, I had to help my tech savvy kids figure out how to view the different movies. It's not that bad though, it just could've been designed better |
replace vhs
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| Review Date: January 8, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Patric Bateman, |
| I had to replace this from vhs. I can't wait until I have to toss all my dvd's and buy the new format. (blu ray doesn't count) |
Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas
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| Review Date: December 23, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Rallen Fontenot, |
| The video teaches the valuable lesson that Christmas is not about presents. Kids love it and I still love it as an adult. Thank you Dr. Seuss! |
Dr Seuss... loved by even my Pooch?
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| Review Date: December 15, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Joshua David Whitechapel, |
| Timeless. My newest Nephew who is 2 and a half loves this animated verison. You can't go wrong with this hit! |
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