How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

*NOTE* In the review for the first movie, I forgot to talk about the mid and post credits scenes. In the mid credits scene, Jackhammer is shown working out, and the camera slowly pans down to and zooms into the philosopher's stone on his desk, and you can briefly see Sauron in his "Eye-Tower" form. In the post credits scene, Santa is shown kneeling in front on something. The camera slowly pans up to show it is a statue of Sauron, making us question Santa's true allegiance In this sequel to Rudolph "Jackhammer" Jones, the titular character Jackhammer is forced into another similar situation as the one in the first movie, but with all new characters dropped into the mix with our original cast, who, for the most part, take a backseat to the new characters, and I think this was very clever, considering how much development we got for them in the first movie, so we definitely didn't need any more, but we needed to get development on the new people. The film creators did this excellently, working out the flaws and the quirks of each character to near perfection. The characters all feel like people instead of just cardboard cutouts. Anyway, now I'll get to the plot. As said at the beginning, this review will be very spoiler-heavy. This movie starts 3 months after the last one, which put me off at first, but I realized it worked well for the story. We get to see how the Mushroom Kingdom has rebuilt itself after being nearly destroyed by Sauron. The story begins when Jackhammer is just finishing a workout, very reminiscent of the last film's opening, and we see him walk to his desk and pick up the Philosopher's Stone. He stares into it, when he sees it: SAURON! After 3 months of working out and training, Jackhammer knows how to handle Sauron, especially in his weaker Eye-Tower form and trapped in the Stone. Jackhammer simply stares at him for a bit until Sauron notices him. Sauron looks up at him and laughs, not a maniacal laugh, but as if something was funny. After talking with Sauron for a bit, Jackhammer gets "triggered" and throws the Stone, but it won't leave his hand. Sauron says he knows why, but Jackhammer is having none of it. He reveals that he's been training with all of the members of the group who helped him take down Sauron in the first place, except Santa. Jackhammer uses the Force, combined with a bit of magic and a spin attack, and manages to get the Stone off of him, but not for long. The stone hovers in the air and flies back into his hand. Jackhammer decides to deal with it and starts to train again. He notices the local news announce "a sudden climb in crime" and how the crime rates of New Donk City, Jackhammer's home town, have risen 100,000,000%. Jackhammer realizes he has to do something about this, so he starts to take to the streets and fight crime. Here he meets Donald Duck, another hero trying to slow crime rates just like him. He teams up with Donald, and they find Samus Aran, a bounty hunter hired to take out the "Big Guys." The three of them go to recruit the old team, and it really takes off from there. Our 3 main characters manage to break in while the other 4 create a distraction. The fight between the original group and the onslaught of 10,000 soldiers is incredibly well animated and choreographed, with the high point being when Harry shot a spell that rebounded off of Link's mirror shield and destroyed a skeleton monster. As we cut to Jackhammer, Donald, and Samus, we see who our "Big Guy" is. None other than the Grinch himself. He uses his Santa impersonation power to gain all of Santa's powers as the avatar. Samus stars blasting as much energy at is as possible, and Donald uses his Dark Matter Energy Beam to try and disintegrate the Grinch, while Jackhammer uses the power of the Stone to steal the Grinch's power and destroy him, adding him to the Philosopher's Stone. This movie was incredible, even better than the first one, though it was a little bit shorter. I hope you all get as much enjoyment out of this film as I did.

"Maybe Christmas doesn't come from a store, maybe Christmas means just a little bit more..." that line sums up the film.Funny how some people do not actually pay attention to this films ending - they only remember him stealing all the Christmas away from everyone but they fail to remember the lesson of the tale which is the ending of the film: the Grinch's heart grew 3 times that day and he brought back all the Christmas items to the Whos. Don't forget who carved the roast beast! The Grinch learned the real meaning of Christmas.A wonderful Christmas story for the whole family. A timeless classic.10/10

OK, this is one of the best films out there. A 22 minute TV special directed by Chuck Jones for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Jones worked at MGM after being fired by WB in 1963. He worked at MGM to produce 34 Tom and Jerry shorts, The Dot and the Line, 2 Dr. Seuss specials and a ton of other stuff. When the MGM cartoon studio shut down in 1967, he had to find work and joined DePatie-Freleng for a while. He helped Friz Freleng in his Dr. Seuss specials.Anyways, the Grinch, with a size two hearts, too small, tries to ruin Christmas for the town of Whoville. He gets his dog and they go down the mountain. At night, he reaches the first house, but a girl sees him, so he lies and escorts her to bed. He then steals a bunch of stuff. In the morning, he goes up the mountain but he realizes that all this stuff would fall down. His heart then grows and brings the stuff back to the people of Whoville. They have dinner as the movie ends.A timeless classic. This comes around CN and Boomerang over the Christmas holidays as Turner acquired copyrights to the film in 1986.10/10

The Grinch lives in a mountain cave. He hates Christmas and hates the Whos in Whoville celebrating. Who knows why but his heart is two sizes too small. He comes up with an awful idea to disguise himself as Santa Claus and his dog Max as a reindeer. Then he steal everything Christmas from the Whos in Whoville. He encounters Cindy Lou Who but he lies to the little child.This is the perfect marriage of Chuck Jones' animation style with Dr. Seuss' wacky writing and illustrations. Both are originals in their own rights. Both are masters in their field. Add to that, there is the great voice work by Boris Karloff. It's got a great message and will make anybody's heart grow three sizes.