Unless you have a particular aversion to fuzzy, anthropomorphised puppet creatures or anything associated with the festive season makes your skin crawl, then you will surely agree that The Muppet Christmas Carol is the greatest Christmas film ever made. It is impossible to improve on.  (If you are in the position of Christmas cultural poverty in which you’ve never seen the film, then you’ll just have to take my word for it.) However, it is much, much, more than just ‘the greatest Christmas film of all time’, it is also, one of the greatest films of all time of any kind and the greatest musical movie ever. FACT.*

Here are the reasons why The Muppet Christmas Carol is The Greatest:

• Michael Caine as Scrooge is GREAT.
• The Muppets are GREAT.
• The songs are GREAT. (”You know wherever you find love it feels like Christmaaaasss” – aahh)
• The boundary-crossing narrative tool that uses Gonzo (claiming to be Charles Dickens) and Rizzo the Rat as on-screen story tellers who break the fourth wall, directly addressing the viewer whilst at the same time interacting with the characters on screen who are unaware of the viewer, brings an almost Brechtian element to the film. Which is GREAT.

That’s FOUR GREATS! The Muppet Christmas Carol then must be THE GREATEST FILM EVER MADE…

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* Not actually a fact.