A Muppet Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens’s original story is a rather heavy-handed moralistic fable about Victorian wealth inequality and also…ghosts? Most Dickens adaptations hew too closely to their source material to surpass it in quality, but A Muppet Christmas Carol handily pulls that feat off. The Muppets inject a somewhat dour tale with a heavy dose of joy and real Christmas spirit, creating a movie whose moral lingers with children and adults alike.