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That’s true enough — but what we get from him is a thrill ride rather than the sentimental kick of the best versions.

This time Scrooge is voiced, a little peculiarly, by Jim Carrey who also does the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.

Gary Oldman plays Bob Cratchit, Young Marley, Marley’s Ghost and — who would have thought it? — Tiny Tim.

It is admirable in many ways but you get the feeling that someone didn’t quite trust the story.

Watch the opening few minutes, where Zemeckis and his team set the scene, and you can only wonder. Watch the last sequence, which ends the abruptly, and you may curse.

Still, in between, there are many wonders and a series of weathered and withered faces of which Dickens himself would have been proud.

A Christmas Carol
Cert: PG