It’s now or never ! If the older or younger children around you have not yet discovered The Grinch, it is urgent to watch it on Netflix. The famous Christmas movie will leave the platform on December 31, 2022.
When it was released in 2000, this event film remained at the top of the American box office for four weeks. Two decades later, The Grinch of Ron Howard still fascinates and still delights young and old alike on netflix. At least for the moment. Because, in 2023, it will no longer be available on the platform. The streaming giant warns that the December 31, 2022 will be the last day to (re)discover this cult Christmas film, which is summarized as follows on its website: “The Grinch decides to deprive the inhabitants of Whoville of Christmas, but Cindy Lou, a young girl with a tender heart, may well give him back the ability to love.” This Grinch is a green character embodied in the cinema by Jim Carrey, who marked children forever with his spine-chilling story.
A curmudgeon not a big fan of Christmas
Indeed, for 53 years, the Grinch lives in a cave on Mount Crumpit with his dog Max. During all these years, two old ladies took him in and took care of him. But her problem is above all to have a heart that is too small, thus preventing her from loving anyone. The joy that inhabits everyone during the end-of-year celebrations, very little for this “grumpy”. Grumpy hermit, abhorring Christmas, and wanting to disrupt that of the inhabitants of Whoville, down in the valley, he will however find himself confronted with Cindy Lou, a little girl determined to break through the shell of the Grinch and go beyond his monster image. Courageous, she will therefore go to meet him. She first succeeds in her mission by managing to bring him down to Whoville.
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The adaptation of a book released in 1957
Disappointed not to have been chosen to take on the role of party director, the Grinch will get revenge, make himself up as Santa Claus, disguise your dog as a reindeer and go and steal gifts from all the houses, but also everything that made it possible to celebrate New Year’s Eve. Until a realization of the mistake he was making? Before hitting the movies, this angry character with the Christmas spirit had already made the heyday of literature and television. The book The Grinch who wanted to ruin Christmaswritten in 1957 by Theodor Seuss, had been adapted into a cartoon a decade later. The 26-minute program, released in 1966, and directed by Chuck Jones, was called How the Grinch Stole Christmas? A timeless story that always fascinates children, now via Netflix. At least until December 31.
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