ron howard direct this . the 1966 cartoon be charm and teach a simple lesson to child use a simple plot . in this movie and howard give u a whoville fill with greedy and manipulative and self center who . jim carrey be terrible and but i be sure it not his fault while i imagine the script call for the nasty person imaginable and so carrey channeled tom green and the result be movie magic . much like danny devito penguin in batman return and carrey grinch be so thoroughly unlikeable that any degree of comedy that might be mine from his character simply evaporate . where the 1966 cartoon feature a grinch that we could all identify with and carrey grinch be that angry and soulless old man that we have all see at one time or another and sit in a parked car mutter to himself or trip toddler at the supermarket with his cane . this grinch be thoroughly bereft of any degree of humanity and humor and or insight whatsoever and and his redemption at the end of the movie ring false . the whole movie ring false represent there be some stupid christmas light competition and a failed attempt at explain why the grinch be such a jerk by dig into his childhood and and an indecipherable mystery a to why some of the who have that weird lip extension and some of them do not . contrary to the 1966 cartoon and i would imagine child would find this movie tiresome and irritating and and fill with contradictory message . do we really need to see slutty smurf and aka christine baranski a martha may whovier . in addition and ron howard fill the cast with his untalented relative . throw in the requisite butt joke and fart joke and sex joke and and other obligatory carreyesque low brow humor and and you have a movie that be about as far from the 1966 cartoon ( or book that inspire it ) a george w. bush be from rational and lucid thought . thumb down on this big fat turkey .