With Carrey hitting a career peak, this Grinch doesn't steal Christmas; it restores the season by helping energize us enough to make it through the whole thing.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
If anything, the real surprise here is how affecting he makes the Grinch's ultimate big hearted turnaround, as Carrey the actor sneaks up on Carrey the wild man dervish. In whichever mode, he carreys the movie.Read Full Review »
It's a big stuffed turkey of a movie, just in time for the holidays.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
I am not a mind-reader and cannot be sure, but I think a lot of children are going to look at this movie with perplexity and distaste. It's just not much fun.Read Full Review »
The movie rises to another level whenever its star has a chance to cut loose -- leading the ensemble in a conga line, winning a sack race in slow motion, torching the Whos' Christmas tree while screaming, "Burn baby burn."Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
So clogged with kooky gadgetry and special effects and glitter and goo that watching it feels like being gridlocked at Toys "R" Us during the Christmas rush.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
Profoundly unnecessary -- cluttered, padded even at 90 minutes, indifferently narrated by Anthony Hopkins, and consistently misdirected by Ron Howard.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
You will not like it on the screen, you will not like it -- not one scene!Read Full Review »
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