Sign up to The Irish Times Archive (1859 - 2008)My Account »

This extravagant CGI-retooling of the holiday warhorse drains the life out of Scrooge co, writes DONALD CLARKE

CHARLES DICKENS’S A Christmas Carolmay be imperishable, but, with a hundred adaptations out there on film and DVD, you have to do something very innovative to stand out from the pack.