Release date: 6 November 2009

Running time: 96 mins

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Starring: Colin Firth, Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright Penn

Charles Dickens' classic yuletide tale gets an animated makeover courtesy of Academy Award-winning director Robert Zemeckis.

It's Christmas Eve, and mean old miser Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey) is in an even worse mood than normal, barking orders at his hapless employee Bob Cratchit (Gary Oldman) and rudely rejecting his nephew Fred's (Colin Firth) invitation to Christmas dinner. But Scrooge is about to get a lesson he'll never forget when he's visited by three fearsome apparitions during the course of the night: the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet To Come (all voiced by Jim Carrey). One by one, the ghosts take Scrooge on a soul-searching journey back to his past and into the future to show him what might happen if he doesn't change his wicked ways. With Christmas Day just hours away, will Scrooge finally be able to put his cheerless past behind him before it's too late?

Screenplay: Robert Zemeckis

Distributor: Disney

You should see it because: The classic Christmas story is wonderfully retold in eye-popping 3D by the ever-reliable director of Back To The Future and The Polar Express.

See it if you liked: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), The Polar Express 3D (2004), Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)