bah humbug

Rating: 2/10 (23 April 2010)

Bah Humbug. Oh wait. That's another Dickens story. This one just plagiarizes Oliver Twist with a villain who makes Bill Sykes seem almost benign. The rest is fake-realism (a child covered with excrement forces his way through a crowd that neither recoils nor shoves him away) with a jumble of quick back and forward story-telling so the viewer won't realize how thin the plot is.
So it won a ton of Academy Awards - those self-serving hand-outs that were created as a Hollywood promotion. Which they still are, though now gilded with a faux patina of seriousness and importance. Just like this movie.