After securing the sleigh, the Grinch and Max slide down back to Whoville in order to return the stolen items, and the remorseful Grinch admits his crimes and apologizes to the Whos before returning to his cave.įeeling sorry for the Grinch, Cindy later invites him and Max to celebrate Christmas at her house which he awkwardly attends.
He succeeds at this when Fred and his family come to his aid. Seeing Cindy and remembering her advice, he immerses himself in their singing, causing his shrunken heart to blissfully triple in size.Īfterwards, the sleigh begins to fall off Mount Crumpit, and the Grinch attempts to save it. The Whos join together to sing "Welcome Christmas", rendering the Grinch puzzled to see that they are celebrating Christmas despite his thefts. Cindy Lou believes that she's to blame because of her trap, but Donna tells her that Christmas is not centered on presents and that Cindy's the best thing that ever happened to her. The Whos wake up and are shocked and disappointed to see that the presents and decorations are gone. Despite this, the Grinch continues his mission, unable to let go of the loneliness Christmas brought him.Īfter stealing every Christmas present and decoration, the Grinch and Max head back to Mount Crumpit to dispose of them. Her request to help lighten her mother's workload and her kind advice about listening to the Whos' singing to alleviate his sadness touches the Grinch's heart. He soon encounters Cindy Lou after falling into her trap. On Christmas Eve, after making a Santa disguise and crafting dozens of gadgets to help him with his plan, the Grinch and Max, who pulls the sleigh in Fred's place, go down to Whoville to steal the decorations and presents. After a test run, the Grinch and Max discover that Fred has a family, and the Grinch emotionally agrees to let Fred go home with them. He and Max acquire a fat reindeer, whom the Grinch calls Fred, and steal a sleigh from his friendly neighbor Bricklebaum. The Grinch soon decides that he will steal Christmas from Whoville to assuage his distress. With Christmas approaching, a bungled attempt by the Grinch to ruin a tree-lighting ceremony results in him having a flashback about his disjointed childhood spent alone and unwanted in an orphanage. When Donna tells her that a round trip to the North Pole would take a month, she instead decides to try trapping Santa with the help of her friends. Cindy initially decides to send a letter to Santa Claus to help her mother, but after an encounter with the Grinch -who sarcastically tells her that, if the matter is so urgent, she'll have to talk to Santa face-to-face about it- she decides to go to the North Pole to talk to Santa himself. Meanwhile, 6-year-old Cindy Lou Who notices that her mother Donna is overworked trying to take care of herself and her twin infant brothers, Buster and Bean. He lives in his cave with his dog, Max, and only goes into Whoville to buy groceries and play pranks on the citizens. However, the only one who is not amused is the cantankerous and green-furred Grinch, born with a heart being "two sizes too small". In the town of Whoville, the human-like people called Whos are filled with excitement about celebrating Christmas. Seuss film adaptation released during the lifetime of Seuss' widow Audrey Geisel, who served as executive producer of the film and died on December 19, 2018, five weeks after the film's release. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the animation and the vocal performances, but felt the film added a few or nothing new to the source material. It grossed over $511 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing Christmas film of all time, as well as the highest-grossing Dr. The Grinch was released and distributed by Universal Pictures in the United States on November 9, 2018, in RealD 3D, IMAX, IMAX 3D, Dolby Cinema, and 4DX theaters. The plot follows the Grinch and his pet dog Max as they plan to ruin Whoville's Christmas celebration by stealing all the town's decorations and gifts. Directed by Yarrow Cheney and Scott Mosier (in his directorial debut), written by Michael LeSieur and Tommy Swerdlow, the film stars the voices of Benedict Cumberbatch, Rashida Jones, Kenan Thompson, Angela Lansbury, and Pharrell Williams who serves as the narrator. Seuss film adaptation, following The Lorax (2012). Seuss, it is the third screen adaptation of the story, following the 1966 television special starring Boris Karloff and the 2000 live-action feature-length film starring Jim Carrey. Based on the 1957 book How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr.
Seuss' The Grinch) is a 2018 American computer-animated Christmas fantasy comedy film produced by Illumination and distributed by Universal Pictures.