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, who has a heart '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 little 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.

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