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How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
USA 1966. Directors: Chuck Jones and Ben Washam
Voices: Boris Karloff
Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales
USA 1979. Directors: Friz Freleng and Chuck Jones
Voices: Mel Blanc, June Foray
Noël Noël
Canada 2003. Director: Nicola Lemay
Narrator: Leslie Nielsen
O come all ye film lovers for a heart-warming trifecta of animated Christmas specials! Timeless lessons of generosity and love in the holiday season always remain vital — from 1966’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, to 1979’s Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales, to 2003’s Noël Noël. Chuck Jones directed the animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s seminal How the Grinch Stole Christmas! In one of his last great roles, Boris Karloff voices a Who with a heart two sizes too small, until he encounters the true meaning of Christmas. Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, and other favourites celebrate the holidays in Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas. Their fun-filled capers include an adaptation of A Christmas Carol, an unsuccessful Wile E. Coyote on jet skis, and a heart-warming visit to the North Pole. The National Film Board of Canada production Noël Noël, narrated by the late, great Leslie Nielsen, tells how little Zoey, her dog Snooze, and a blue-eyed reindeer help billionaire Noël Noël learn the true meaning of love during the holidays. Colour: Blu-ray Disc, 26 mins. /DVD, 22 mins. /HDCAM. 22 mins. Total running time: 70 mins.
"This lusty, garishly colored, good-hearted cartoon was a wonderful, awful idea."
Time | full review"The great Warner Brothers animator Chuck Jones does what he can with a small-screen budget, and the Grinch's sleigh rides down to Whoville and back up to Mount Crumpet reunite Jones with his favorite muse—the law of gravity."
Chicago Reader | full review