Disney gets creepy again - not a spinning wheel in sight...

Just come back from the cinema, having seen 'A Christmas Carol' (the new Disney 3D version) with my younger brother. It is absolutely amazing. The animation is typically Disney-beautiful, the 3D just making it more stunning - animators seem to be finally grasping the use of 3D to enhance rather than as the main point of a film.

Jim Carrey, though sometimes wildly annoying, is a hugely talented actor. I have known this for a while of course (as has anyone who has ever seen 'The Truman Show') but he really demonstrates his talent with voices and accents in this film - voicing Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas Past and Present (Present being a particularly delightful experience!).

But wait a moment - this film is creepy! And I mean really quite scary. Now I know that the original material was hardly Disney-esque, but having grown up with the Muppets version I wasn't totally prepared for Jacob Marley to make such a freaky entrance! It is wonderfully drawn out, and hearing Marley approach dragging his chain is genuinely frightening. It reminded me of the stories of Charles Dickens doing his public readings and causing delicate women to faint when he described Scrooge's door knocker turning into Marley's face... However, I refuse to make any comment on this creepiness being unusual for a Disney - the scene where Maleficent bewitches Rose in Sleeping Beauty is scary too!