There are countless number of A Christmas Carol
remakes and reinvasionings, from The Muppets to Tori Spelling have all put their twist on the classic Charles Dickens tale. But for my money, the best of them is Bill Murray’s (Caddyshack
) turn of a penny pinching miser in Scrooged. The tale takes into the corporate world with Murray playing a television executive also trying to make A Christmas Carol more modern.The updated ghosts make the movie with The Ghost of Christmas Past played by Buster Poindexter (Hot Hot Hot) as a cabbie while Carol King (The Princess Bride
) turns the Ghost of Christmas Present into a pixie who isn’t afraid to resort to physical violence to get her point across. But the most memorable character was a new one, a shotgun toting disgruntled fired Bobcat Goldthwait (Police Academy 2
) bent on revenge.The movie also featured one of my favorite holiday songs; Put a Little Love in Your Heart by Al Green and Annie Lennox, a song so good it is worth playing all year round. Christmas just doesn’t seem like Christmas when I don’t happen across this movie during the holiday making it this month’s induction into the Scooter Hall of Fame.
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