Ron Howard

...missed the epic charm of Norton Juster's classic book. "Ella'' reminded me too of the wholesale live-action pillaging of Dr. Seuss in Ron Howard's 2000 "How the Grinch Stole Christmas'' - a hit but an ugly and obnoxious one - and the...

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...playgrounds. (How o how could Depp and Tim Burton get it so wrong?) Oh, and don't even get me started on Ron Howard's reading of Dr. Seuss in his How the Grinch Stole Christmas: he completely flips the point of the story upside down and...

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...a hug. Ron Howard expertly puts Dr. Seuss's zany world around him in the film that'll finally give Scrooge some help with all the heavy humbug lifting, and energize our own inner Grinches enough to make it through the holiday season. (PG;...

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...in Whoville of their Christmas, but has a change of heart. This animated feature was made into a live-action movie in 2000, directed by Ron Howard and starring Jim Carrey as the Grinch. Another less-than-friendly impostor appears in A Christmas...

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...did all the hard work for me." He already knew the Grinch role well, from having the Dr. Seuss book read to him as a boy and seeing Carrey's performance in Ron Howard's 2000 film of the Christmas tale. "What I found so great about his...

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...direction of everybody's favorite Opie, Ron Howard. If memory serves, old Doc Seuss got his point across in fewer than 200 words, and now these guys are spending $200 million or so on it. Boys and girls, can you spell "bloated vulgarity"?

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...directed by the great Mitchell Leisen, it's both sexy and touching. Nice "HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS" (2000) Or "How Ron Howard Sucked the Joy out of Dr. Seuss." A crass, noisy, chintzy holiday spectacular in which Jim Carrey shakes his...

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