![]() I don't mean we've seen the original movies, I mean the film follows every generic story you'll ever see in a kids movie. Actually, the entire movie is predictable. Most of the jokes are entirely predictable. The music is even done by rapper Tyler The Creator, and even as a moderate fan of his work, the music here is terribly uninspired and obviously an attempt to make the film more hip. Much like the character, the movie sucks out anything interesting in favor for playing it safe and selling toys. Sadly, both the character and the overall movie as a whole share the same problems it's boring, uninspired, and vanilla. Making him a mostly good character really undermines the climactic payoff of him finally understanding the meaning Christmas towards the end. ![]() Instead of making The Grinch actually funny or interesting, they make him the typical 2018 grumpy hipster who's a good guy at heart but just needs his morning coffee. The Grinch himself is written in a way that pulls all punches and has to cave in to cutesy kids logic instead of a clever way that tells a good story. At least Jim Carrey put energy and emotion into his performance, whereas Cumberbatch sounds like he's disappointed about the small paycheck he's just been given. His voice doesn't match the character whatsoever, and does nothing to bring the character more to life. I do like Cumberbatch and I did think he'd be great to voice the Grinch, but he's terrible in this movie. While The Grinch isn't Illumination's worst, it's still a thoughtless and emotionless product only meant to sell toys and theater tickets before charm and charisma. ![]() If you've seen anything else from Illumination, you practically don't need to see this movie, because you can probably just predict every scene in your head and just about get it right. Illumination is a studio known for producing gutless, boring, paint-by-numbers, mass appeal movies that focus more on cute gimmicks and marketing than they do on actual storytelling and character development. ![]()
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