*How the Grinch Stole Christmas* swept us away (FIRST TIME WATCHING REACTION)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- You’re a mean one.
Sup, nice dudes! Happy holidays! Seasons greetings! Happy Hanukkah! Joyous Kwanzaa! Merry Christmas! Ramadan Mubarak! Whatever you celebrate this time of the year, we hope you’re having a good one.
Today we watch the classic holiday film, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, starring Jim Carrey and directed by Ron Howard. This will be Altaf’s first time, and Chris hasn’t seen it since he was a kid. We get weirdly emotional watching. Enjoy!
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SING WITH US! One line at a time, please 😁
🎵You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch🎵
🎶You really are a Heel🎶
@@KikiSweet-FoxSox You're as cuddly as a cactus you're as cuddly as an eel, Mr. Griiiii-INCH!
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DVD version cost 💲6,00
🎶You're a bad Banana With a... Grrrreeassy Black Peel🎶
There is a dark theory that max was a gift that was given but then thrown away and that's how he came to be in the grinch's possession. Which is probably why he remains loyal to the grinch.
Oh wow, that's super dark. It weirdly makes sense though! Thanks for watching 😁
Damn...dont abandon your pets guys!
@@NiceDudeMovieNight actually it's confirmed in another special, look up Grinch's Halloween Special.
@@fanon8780 yeah, definitely sounds like his MO.
@@NiceDudeMovieNight 23:00 Family!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
One my favourite jokes from the movie: “Hey honey, our baby’s here!... Looks just like your boss.”
Great thing about that joke is it's funny to different ages for different reasons. To kids it's funny because of the coincidence. To adults it's funny because they understand the implications.
Them putting their keys into the bowl was also pretty genius
Fun fact: Jim Carey would sneak to the Bates motel set between shoots and jump out at the backlot tour scaring everyone including the workers.
As a kid I was never scared of the grinch, just couldn’t stop laughing hard at Jim Carry’s performance.
Same
Agreed like Jim just definitely knows how to make us laugh so hard
In a deleted scene, the light decoration contest was rigged by the mayor (the envelope w/ the winner had Betty’s name on it) so that Martha won.
That makes me hate the mayor even more, and glad the Grinch made him kiss Max’s ass. I just feel bad for Max
Yeah, the mayor’s a narcissistic, egotistical brat.
That Christmas light show was a spectacle on every sense of the word
"Jury Duty, Jury Duty, Jury Duty, Blackmail, Pink Slip, Chain Mail, Eviction Notice!" Pure platinum I tell ya!
Fun fact! The actress who played as Cindy (the little girl), is the leader of a punk rock band called The Pretty Reckless! Her singing voice is pretty damn good
To go from an innocent, sweet Who to the lead singer of The Pretty Reckless. That is QUITE the transformation.
Taylor momsen 😍😍😍
@@ShadowStar-wo8vi aren't all kids innocent and sweet? we all grow up lol
Cindy Lou Who to Taylor Momsen, hot goth rocker queen. Hell yea 🤘
@@indiesunflowersoh yea, absolutely. But it's still funny to think about
So glad you liked this one! I see a lot of hate online for it but I love this rendition of the story. Super nostalgia but its so fun and Jim Carrey is INCREDIBLE. His commitment is aw-inspiring.
It sounds cliche to say but Jim Carrey absolutely disappears in this role. Thanks for watching, Zach!
I myself think the movie is fine for what it is. It’s a good movie, It’s just not a good DR Seuss movie.
He understands Max's feelings of rejection.
Quick fact: Jim Carry had to learn CIA torture resistance techniques to be able to get all that makeup on.
Honestly I was only scared of certain parts where he was trying to look scary or sinister. But knowing who jim Carrey was at a young age helped me not be terrified of seeing the grinch
Jim Carrey is a childhood hero 😂. Thanks for watching!!
The bit with the Grinch pulling the tablecloth off and then coming back to mess up the table is that he was supposed to mess it up and accidentally did the trick on the first take and then rushed back to mess it up. The little bit of improv was so good they kept it.
I've been watching this every year for Christmas since I was a toddler so I never had a phase where it scared me. When I was a little too young to even understand the story, I was still entranced by just how the settings looked. I read Dr. Seuss books with my father and sister every night so it was like seeing the books come to life.
If there’s anybody that can make a Dr Seuss character truly come to life it’s Jim Carrey. Thanks for watching!
@@NiceDudeMovieNight Amen to that, thanks for the fun commentary. Hope you guys had a good Christmas
When I heard Ron Howard was directing, I knew it was gonna be good.
I love how the first time we see the Grinch's full face, he smiles that face-eating grin...like his face was drawn by Chuck Jones.
“Solve World Hunger; tell nobody!” That’s gotta be my favorite line 😂 The Grinch could solve world issues but won’t out of pettiness
Fun fact: Jim Carrey went through navy seal training to endure long torture because of the amount of time and makeup he had to sit through and wear.
He even noted: smoking and hitting yourself in the leg helped, so you'd see a smoking grinch hitting himself constantly! He endured all of it because it was for the kids!
It took EIGHT AND A HALF H O U R S to get every blessed piece of that suit on, so they HAD to go long with shoots too to make the most of their time. If I were to ever meet Jim Carrey in person, I'd treat him with the same respect as a war veteran bc it's the right thing to do and in honor of my grandpa, who was an FBI agent (after serving 10 years in the Navy) and did some work with the CIA, who upon learning these facts (from me) requested as much from me. IDK if I'll ever get the chance to, but I sure hope so. For grandpa.
Never found the Grinch scary as a kid. In fact I used to imitate the Grinch. Hadn't seen anything Jim Carrey prior to the film, but I definitely loved it.
This version is really good! There's; pretty sets and decorations, Cindy lou is adorable and kind, the music is cheerful, Jim Carrey is hilarious and a great singer, the moral is respected. I consider this movie as a classic like Home Alone 1 and 2. He's excellent :D The Grinch's hatred for Christams makes sense unlike in the Illumination version. Also, Cindy lou doesn't have useless friends and there's no rap. Thankg god Jim Carrey sing the melody in goofy voices, it was so entertaining and fun!
the animated special from way back when imo just cant even hold a candle to Ron Howard's take on The Grinch, it's got so much depth to it and Jim Carrey's going full ham both adds so much to the film.
I was just wondering if the snowflake hit the ground whoville will be done for
Cindy was played by Taylor Momsen..
Known today as the lead singer of Pretty Reckless
“The original Grinch looked and sounded deeply sinister. THE JIM CARREY GRINCH WAS A FUCKING MENACE TO SOCIETY”
-Schaffrillas
The people who wrote the Screenplay knew how to keep kids from being scared: They made him a troll with a heart. Prank calls, fake letters, and saying he had ending world hunger on his list, made him a lot less threatening.
What was your favorite Dr Seuss story growing up? Mine's the 500 hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, I've been told I could recite it word for word, by the time I was in kindergarten. Just last year I believe, a good friend of mine bought me a copy of the story in color; one of the best gifts I've ever received and that's not something I would say lightly...
"That's real Charlie Bucket energy." AHAHAHAHAHA
I was in fact scared of that one scene with Cindy and Grinch in his lair as a kid. I was fine the rest of the movie but something in that scene triggered my little kid alarms and I even asked if my mom could take me out of the theater for a bit. She however declined that request but I was fine for the rest of the movie so I guess it worked out.
Now I use parts of that scene as inspiration for my fan casting of Jim Carrey as Carnage from Spider-Man but that’ll never happen 😂
That child actor is in a raunchy goth rock band now called the Pretty Reckless. It will shock you. Her name is Taylor Momsen. She was in a creepy soap opera where she posed in her underwear at 13 on a magazine. Creepy. When I first saw the music video I couldn’t believe it was her.
Yeah, Taylor gives no fucks these days. She also fairly regularly brings female fans on stage and strips them.
Oh, damn...I didn't know this!
And what a state she is 🤦
This movie is definitely nostalgic for me. Jim Carrey is awesome. While it does have cringey moments, but what Christmas movie doesn’t have a few of those. overall, it follows the source material and was like lightning in a bottle (especially after what happened with Cat in the Hat)
I remember seeing this in theaters when I was 13, I always thought Jim Carrey was hilarious as the Grinch and was never scared by him. I still have to watch it every Christmas 😄
Jim Carrey said that being in the Grinch makeup was like being buried alive every day. He told Ron Howard that he couldn't do the movie, but they were able to help him cope by hiring a specialist who trains CIA operatives how to withstand torture. Ron Howard wore the makeup himself for one day shooting so he could appreciate what Jim was going through in the role.
The Dog Is Actually A Female She Was The Only Dog Actually Listened So They Use Her To Play Max
I was fuckin terrified of this movie as a kid 💀
Jim Carrey, Christine Baranski, Jeffrey Tambor, Molly Shannon, Clint Howard, Bill Irwin, and of course Taylor Momsen! I am such a fan of Taylor Momsen that it is all I can think of when I watch this movie now. If you do not know her, she played Little Cindy Lou Who and now is the singer of the band The Pretty Reckless. I love her voice and lyricism! It is like punk, rock, and a little bluesy at times. She is 29 years old now.
I laughed my a** off when this first came out..
Can anyone else believe that the woman who the grinch likes, is actually Leonard's Mom from Big Bang Theory?
No...
Wow I thought she looked familiar lol
I dunno, the animated version will always have that special place in my heart. No disrespect to the brilliant Jim Carey.
The animated version has Boris Karloff, you just can't beat that.
Amen! 🤩@@itzakpoelzig330
Jim Carrey went through CIA torture resistance training in order to prepare for the makeup process
Solid intro with the off beat slap on the leg 😂 instant like
I like how this whole movie could be a Greek Epic or something. Because certain characters feel like they could be stand-ins for certain Greek Gods.
The Grinch is obviously Hephaestus. He's "ugly" and therefore shunned by most of society. He lives in a mountain (maybe dormant volcano?) and he's an inventor and craftsman. He's highly intelligent and it shows in his home decor and workshop area.
So, if the Grinch is Hephaestus, then Martha May HAS to be Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty and love, also ends up being Hephaestus' husband. She also feels like Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Just that unbelievingly beautiful woman that seems unattainable by others and is married to an unusual husband.
Mayor Augustus May Who has to be Ares. He's always willing to start a fight, he's a HUGE bully to the Grinch and Cindy Lou, and nobody should like him,
One thing I think REALLY shows how much of a truly amazing writer Suess was is that, I don't think this story has ever had a truly "bad" adaptation. I own all 3 major versions of this story on blue ray, and make it a yearly thing to have a Grinch day and watch all 3, cause all 3 are really good in their own ways. (Yes, even the modern one from Illumination)
Also, if I remember right, Cindy Loo's actress actually grew up to become a proper singer. She fronts "The Pretty Wreckless" if I remember right.
I never actually watched this live-action version of it before. I loved the 60s cartoon original that everyone knows, but I thought this was a terrible movie like the live-action Mike Myers' The Cat in the Hat. However, after watching along for the first time with you boys on this video, it's a better movie than I thought.
Loved Anthony Hopkins as the narrator.
If you want to go waaaaay back, you should look at the first, and (some would say) still the best live-action Dr. Seuss movie, 'The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T.' (1953) with Tommy Rettig (before he became Lassie's first TV boy) and Hans Conreid (before he became Snidely Whiplash). I don't know if it's _good_ or not; but I love it! "Is it atomic?" "Yes, sir! VERY atomic!"
Fun fact: The makeup sessions for Jim Carrey were so long and sometimes even painful (removing the stuff) that they had a CIA agent on the set who taught Jim Carrey how to endure torture.
Fun fact the girl playing Cindy lou went on to being the lead singer for the metal band the pretty reckles.
fun fact, cindy lou who is actually the singer of a band called the pretty reckless
Maxs back story becomes dark and sad when you realise that everything the grinch owns is a unwanted Christmas gift..... 😢
If you’re going to do Christmas movies, then I have to recommend the following:
Any Rankin Bass holiday special
Scrooged with Bill Murray
Santa’s Slay
The Santa Clause with Tim Allen
Also, nobody seems to think about it but _what happened_ to that Who baby that the Grinch's basket bumped off-course...And _where was the Grinch baby heading_ to begin with?? The implication here seems to be that on some other snowflake or flower or grain of dirt, there's a whole species of Grinch-type Whos lookin' like him. And those expectant parents were left alone.
Cindy Lou Who is played by Taylor Momsen. She grew to have a band in real life. The Pretty Reckless.
14:30 Jim Carrey is just being Carrie, escept he's the Grinch. Carrey, Carrie, sound similar. ;)
The girl did the equivalent to inviting osoma bin Ladin to New York
14:11 i love how the only people who reacted bad to the gift is Martha and Cindy, because they are the ones who knows the story
I gotta say if you wanna see more of Emotional Jim Carrey then I recommend watching Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, it is a really good movie and Jim Carrey gives his all in it.
Well you better go catch it
The Grinch was Society Joker before Society Joker.
I tear up every time I watch this movie when the Grinch tells Max he loves him.
Can you guys release unedited version on a second channel or twice just asking
I hated this movie as a kid. Didn't made any sense. Now as an adult I am rewatching it every year multiple times. :))) Every times I find something new in it. And no, I don't have alzheimer's. :D
Running Time:1:44:57
Everyone needs a dog like Max. A dog is the only love money can buy.
Jesus loves you so much that he died for you so please repent and spread the word
I seen it when I was 9
Yay The Socks! 🤗 I always knew thier our Friends. There Pokemon & I love this reaction & Movie🤗
🧦🧦🧦 Thanks for watching!
@@NiceDudeMovieNight Yay 🤗
7:34 Santa bye bye
Watching this as a kid I was scared on the way he looked and just the w way he was POTRAYED in certain scenes. Now that I'm older it's just funny
I saw this movie in theaters when I was 7 or 8 years old… Scared the hell outta me. 😱
I couldn’t watch it for YEARS.
Chris here! I felt the same! At least from the trailer, I was terrified. Somehow I still ended up seeing it and enjoying it when I was 5, but the trailer haunted me. Thanks for watching!
I was terrified bye the grinch and I still am
I wasn’t afraid of The Grinch himself as a kid, but for some reason as a kid I thought that scene where Cindy Lou and The Grinch started screaming at each other scared me. 🤣🤣🤣
Rating:G
For the love of god😂😂 5:21 - 5:27
The Grinch didn't hate Christmas, he hated people....which is fair
“How the Grinch Stole Whoville” doesn’t sound as good tho
While the production value on this movie is insane and Carrey puts his all into this.. For my money, the perfect adaptation of this story is the beautifully animated Chuck Jones Christmas Special from the 60s. It takes the threadbare Seuss book and expands it out about as much as you could. Besides the extra bloat Ron Howard adds here with the Grinch backstory, what always rubbed me the wrong way about this movie comes from personal experience.
I was working retail the Christmas of 2000, and "Grinch Merch" was absolutely inescapable that year... it choked every single every retail outlet with drastically unappealing Grinch junk.. and the movie, by Ron Howard's admission, was made just for that reason.. he saw the commercial potential in merchandising.. which to me, is the EXACT OPPOSITE MESSAGE OF THE STORY. The Grinch's whole fable comes down to one line "Christmas doesn't come from a store.. Christmas perhaps is something much more", which was entirely lost on Howard.
This is up there with Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" in how you can bloat out a short story until it barely resembles the beloved thing it was based on and the original themes get crushed under the weight of commercialization.
Then I guess the satire of the Who's being materialistic at the start rang true, huh?
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Great video. Reminded me to register for my jury duty summons too lol.
Hahaha thanks Mike! Good luck on your jury duty!
@@NiceDudeMovieNight I’m hoping they don’t select me haha
First time watcher..
Great reaction..
Have you seen " In Living Color"
The TV show w/JC
Those grinch faces are totally "Fire Marshall Bill"
Totally worth a search..
Dr seuss movies are cool LOL
He's so giddy he hit the griddy😂
1:00 Yes, every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas as such,
But the Grinch, who lived just north of Whoville? Not so much.
There fixed it
Edit: 23:59 well apparently there's a deleted scene where the Grinch eats the Mayor's nose so that's something
“THE AVARICE NEVER ENDS!!” The whole rant scene makes me laugh so hard.
He’s also not wrong. The Who’s are greedy and materialistic.
21:23 Me when beloved fictitious characters die.
24:21 Me when real people die.
10:37 I think what Altaf means by "perfect dick" is what we would call a hate sink; the Mayor is supposed to be unlikable. Another example would be the Bishop from the Castlevania Netflix series, if you want to try that for Halloween!
If you want more Jim Carey craziness, please watch both Sonic movies!
10:50 Kind of a dark behind the scenes fact, but it's said that he went a full 8 HOURS just on that makeup (it might have taken only two and it's just Jim Carrey being Jim Carrey, but still...)! He abused the makeup artist too
I saw this for the first time in 20 years last week. Couldn’t believe how fun it was. The wife and I really enjoyed ourselves.
HotAugustNight...
Perfect let's watch the boys watch a Christmas movie while decked out.. lol XooX
This is probably very late, but...Cindy Lou Who is Taylor Momsen...the lead singer of The Pretty Reckless band. she grew up and is a very good singer.
1:36-1:39
“My Leg!!!!” 😂😂
Also, did the two guys just cartwheeled down the hill? Either way, this is hilarious!
The teaser trailer to me suggested that the movie could have easily been done as a horror as it didn't suggest that it was a comedy, I remember only seeing the grinches hands as he goes around the house sucking up the presents and cutting the floorboards to take the tree away, even in that scene where he pretends to be santa while hiding behind the tree could easily be nightmare fuel to make a straight up Grinch horror movie if they wanted to... but no the movie itself wasn't scary as a kid, you were immediately on board with Jim Carreys Schtick plus I was already obsessed with Ace Ventura and The Mask.
The whole commentary is good but the punching noise at 24:00 had me on the floor laughing
Lots already said this, but I have trouble watching this movie today knowing that Cindy Lou Who is now the singer of the Pretty Reckless wearing tshirts that say, "I f*** for Satan"
Apparently, Grinch is a Who, just a different species of Whos. His species lives far away from Whoville
I remember seeing this in theaters when I was 6 ("How the Grinch Stole Christmas" was the first book I could read) and I didn't like the movie thinking it missed the point of the book.
Yeah it was top 20 Unscripted Jim Carrie moments that left in the movie. The Grinch have 3 moments the table trick, having dinner by myself and the Director that it.
One of the kids at the beginning of the movie is T. J. Thyne who played Hodges on Bones....the bug guy.
Also the 'trick' where the grinch whips the table cloth off the table was an error. Jim Carrey was supposed to whip it away and everything come clattering down but he actually whipped the table cloth out and 'had' to go back to have everything fall over
15:09 My problem with the Whos in this movie is that they all just very soulless and greedy and only care about material stuff (in the book and the original TV special with Boris Karloff, the whos are supposed to be the complete opposite of the grinch, they’re nice, joyful, good hearted, and already know the true meaning of Christmas)
I get it that is the point in the movie of them being soulless I get it, but that kind of goes against the point of the book itself. The grinch shouldn't have to be the one who spells the message out for them, *he's the one who's supposed to learn the lesson.*
The movie got it so backwards and you honestly side with the grinch in that scene after everything you saw in this film tell me you don't understand why he thinks christmas is so stupid, he's absolutely right.
The one thing that annoyed me about this movie is that the narration sticks close to the book by saying no one quite knows why the Grinch hates Christmas, only for the movie to introduce characters who know _exactly_ why the Grinch hates Christmas. If they were going to put in characters who'd explain his backstory, just a little tweak in the narration would've worked better.
Honestly a live action seuss extended universe with mike myers and jim carrey reprising their roles would be amazing.
0:00 You never celebrated Christmas? Which religion are you a part of? No offense.
I was 5 when this came out. The only thing about the grinch that scared me was the smile. But I got over it quick cause I was smart enough to understand acting. I watched blade at 3, the grinch was light work lmao
we went and saw this when it came out in the theater and my younger cousin(she was under 5) FREAKED out, she was terrified of the Grinch.