A Christmas MUST!!!!

      
          IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME!!!!  So, I've decided to talk about my absolute FAVORITE Christmas movie of all time....Muppet Christmas Carol.

        
           I know, i know, this story has been told and retold to the point of wearing it out.  But this re-telling i think stays very true to the original story, while adding a lot of humor, and, many touching moments.  There are still sometimes that i watch it and choke up.  This movie stars Micheal Caine as Scrooge.  I think, right there, is another reason that this is one of my favorite movies! He is such a wonderful actor, and his interpretation of Scrooge is my favorite.  A lot of the time with the christmas carol re-tellings, i think the scrooges don't show the proper character progression...it's either they show too much change too fast, or too little.  Micheal Caine has the perfect amount for me, starting out as the cold-hearted skin-flint and ending to be the loving-christmas-fairing man that the story works up to.  
         Another thing, the music. The muppets have this way of being extremely off key, but in all the right places!  It's almost a child-like way of singing.  I'm not quite sure what it is about it, but when the muppets sing, it really does touch a lot of people.  Whether it makes you laugh, or makes you cry, it gets to you, and somehow delivers the message perfectly without hitting you over the head with it.  I guess that's what the muppets are all about, though. Making you feel good, delivering good morals, and touching your heart, but in a simple, understated, very silly way.
          No matter movie it is, the muppets are one of my favorite things ever, but this has to be my favorite of them all.  This movie was also the first movie after the death of Jim Henson, and is dedicated to him.  It is very fitting, as i feel it best demonstrates everything that the Muppets were, and are about.  Love, and, (in the words of the newest muppet movie,) the world's third greatest gift, laughter.  This show is the one that always puts me in the christmas spirit, no matter how many times i watch it.  It just isn't christmas without it.  So, go watch it! Now!  I garantee, it WILL make you smile!