# Version Control: Is Johnny Depp’s ‘Ebenezer’ The Best Movie Star Scrooge?

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/version-control-is-johnny-depps-ebenezer-the-best-movie-star-scrooge/
- Published: 2026-11-14T14:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-14T14:20:04+00:00
- Original publisher: New York Post (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://decider.com/2026/11/14/johnny-depp-ebenezer-vs-other-movie-star-scrooges/
- Topics: Celebrity, Entertainment, Film, World

## Key points

- The article compares four star-led Christmas Carol adaptations.
- Jim Carrey is praised for embodying Scrooge’s withered soul.
- Michael Caine remains the benchmark in The Muppet Christmas Carol.

## Summary

The article compares Johnny Depp’s new film *Ebenezer* with screen adaptations of *A Christmas Carol* starring Bill Murray, Jim Carrey and Ryan Reynolds. It asks how well each actor’s persona fits Scrooge, a familiar role that must still honour Charles Dickens’s story.

The films are assessed in chronological order, with *Scrooged* criticised for a redemption that feels like showboating, while Jim Carrey’s motion-capture performance is praised for conveying Scrooge’s “withered soul”. Ryan Reynolds’s *Spirited* is described as mixing a modern retelling with parody; the article says all these versions trail Michael Caine’s Scrooge in *The Muppet Christmas Carol*.

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