"The Muppet Christmas Carol uses catchy music and charming characters to suck the audience into a beautiful reimagining of Charles Dickens’ festive novella."

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 18, 2025

The screenplay's wry humour and the mind-boggling ingenuity of the production team sell every moment.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 21, 2024

Wonderful. The humour, the terrific soundtrack, it all just seems to come together in a way you wouldn't expect.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 15, 2022

Every single scene is a delight and every song – including the stoical One More Sleep ’Til Christmas and joyful Thankful Heart – hits the perfect note.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 9, 2022

The real MVP is Caine and his cockney charm; he plays it entirely straight, acting his arse off alongside a slew of fuzzy, singing Muppets as he reminds us to hold each other close “with a thankful heart.”

| Dec 5, 2022

Until I saw this film, I hadn’t realised that Dickens was one Marley short. Here, Statler and Waldorf rattle their chains as the Marley brothers while delivering one of songsmith Paul Williams’s many earworms.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 2, 2022

Working on multiple levels with an inspiring amount of effort and heart, it is hard to find any other version of the story to stand out quite this much and really capture the full potential of what this story can be.

| Original Score: A | Aug 28, 2022

...the greatness of Michael Caine, who is still my favorite on-screen depiction of the iconic miser (sorry, Alastair Sim) thanks in part to his decision to play the part completely straight though acting across from puppets...

| Apr 14, 2021

...should be piped, free of charge, into every home, orifice and vein to aid our muted internal festivities....

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 15, 2021

A charming feature filled with colorful caricatures, important lessons, and inventive humor.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 16, 2020

The Muppet Christmas Carol is the definitive holiday classic, a triumph of comedy and tragedy with something to offer audiences of all ages. Simply perfect.

| Dec 14, 2019

Vastly enjoyable despite the syrupy, soppy song bit in the middle (go make a glass of mulled wine during it). Michael Caine is perfect in the role and there are many genuine belly laughs.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2019

The Muppets are at their best when they're anarchic, without all this soggy whimsy.

| Nov 19, 2019

Although the story has been Muppetised (with Fozzie Bear as Fozziwig, the owner of a rubber-chicken factory), no attempt has been made to water down the story, and the poignancy of the moral tale is as affecting as ever.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2019

The Paul Williams songs and Miles Goodman score are just lovely.

| Original Score: A | May 2, 2019

A remarkably faithful adaptation with a classy straight man and a dark side. Plus jokes galore -- whoever felt it was appropriate to use Rizzo as a pair of bellows to get the fire going deserves an extra helping of plum pudding.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 1, 2018

Caine carries this Christmas Carol thoughout -- at least from an adult viewpoint. But somehow, Kermit makes a touching Cratchit, as voiced by Steve Whitmire.

| May 31, 2018

The sets are detailed and charming, there are the usual lively, instantly forgettable songs, and several favourites (the Swedish Chef, Rowlf) show up in cheerful cameos.

| Dec 20, 2017

This is the Muppets' finest film. Its mashup of slapstick, songs and literary adaptation is suitably anarchic, but crucially it gets Dickens right.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 7, 2017

No party is as joyous as a Muppet celebration, so don't wait until there's only one more sleep till Christmas - enjoy The Muppet Christmas Carol at every chance you get.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2017