The Grinch walked so Elphaba could run, and in the year 2025 we get to celebrate both the release of Wicked: For Good and How the Grinch Stole Christmas turning 25 years old. We’re a big fan of the green folk, and Cineworld will be bringing The Grinch (2000) to its screens on the 7th December.
From Whoville and Cindy Lou to Max and Jim Carrey’s unnerving yet hilarious depiction of the Grinch, we can’t wait to go back to the early noughties and experience this garish Christmas movie on the big screen.
To prepare, here are some of the best scenes from How the Grinch Stole Christmas we love to rewatch every festive season.
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The Grinch checks his diary ahead of the Whobilation and it’s the most relatable thing
Cindy Lou has good intentions in wanting to nominate the Grinch as that year’s Holiday Cheermeister and to invite him to the Whobilation where he’ll be honoured. However, what a child doesn’t realise is the mental and literal preparation that goes into being invited to a social occasion such as this. And the Grinch’s response is incredibly relatable.
Consulting his diary, he reels off his jam packed agenda – “Four o'clock, wallow in self pity. Four-thirty, stare into the abyss. Five o'clock, solve world hunger – tell no one! Five-thirty, jazzercize. Six-thirty, dinner with me - I can't cancel that again. Seven o'clock, wrestle with my self-loathing... I'm booked!”
As the Grinch starts to come around to the idea, though, he’s faced with his next dilemma: “But what would I wear?!” We’ve never felt more Grinch in our souls.
The Grinch is all of us trying to find the right 'fit
As the scene progresses from receiving the invitation to deciding he will in fact go, we enter into a montage in which the Grinch tries on many clothes, modelling them for his dog, Max. From his skirt- we mean, kilt, to the garter riding high on the Grinch's thigh. He then proceeds to throw everything out of his wardrobe, stating: "Stupid, ugly, out of date... This is ridiculius. If I can't find something nice to wear, I'm not going!" If that isn't even more relatable than him booking in time for self-loathing, we don't know what is.
The scene then concludes with the Grinch stealing a yodeler's lederhosen and checking himself out in the mirror. Werk!
Martha May Hovier’s fairy lights contraception is mesmerising
Cindy Lou’s mum, Betty Lou Who, is all about going all out with decorating the outside of her home with as many fairy lights as possible and being crowned with the accolade of the best Christmas lights in Whoville. She’s even brought out the chandelier from the living room and has Cindy Lou go and unscrew the bulb from the fridge. But she’s in competition with the Lou Who’s neighbour, Martha May Whovier.
Impressed with her hard work, Betty is quickly one-upped when Martha May comes out of her house with a shiny new contraption – a light canon that shoots individual fairy lights in a line across the entirety of her house.
Anyone who’s ever had to deal with the trauma of untangling fairy lights every year knows how mindblowing this contraception is. How has it been 25 years since this film came out and this invention hasn’t been made a reality?!
"You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch"
Oh hey, Jim Carrey vocals, go off! As the Grinch plots to steal Christmas from Whoville, we witness him perform this jazzy little number in his very own Santa Claus suit and begin to build an epic sleigh.
He might be a grump, but you can't fault the Grinch's vision
After the Whobilation goes awry, the Grinch is ready to return to his anti-Christmas ways and ruin Christmas for all the Whos by stealing all their presents, trees, and decorations. And while it’s pretty mean of that flurry, green guy, we can’t deny he’s very creative in his villainry.
From setting free a swarm of moths to eat through Christmas stockings, to using a very industrial looking hoover to suck up all the presents straight into his ever-expanding sack. He even comes in from the ground up by sawing a perfect circle around the base of a Christmas tree and plucking it from the unsuspecting Who’s that way.
The Grinch learns the true meaning of Christmas
Cindy Lou has been seeking the true meaning of Christmas throughout the course of the film, left disappointed over and over by the Whoville’s, quite frankly, very capitalist mentality of it being all about the presents. But it’s fine, because with the help of the Grinch, they both come to realise Christmas is about love and community – but not before a bit of peril.
Having stolen all their gifts, Whoville wakes up to a very un-festive Christmas. Having already started to regret his actions, the Grinch is trying to stop his sleigh filled with toys from falling down the top of Mount Crumpit.
Unable to find the strength to prevent it, he’s about to let go when he discovers Cindy Lou had climbed into the Sleigh to ensure the Grinch wasn’t alone on Christmas Day. As the sleigh begins to teeter, the Grinch’s heart begins to grow to three times its size as he endeavours to rescue Cindy Lou before they then ride back down to Whoville to return all the gifts and decorations he stole.
We can't wait to relive these scenes come Sunday, 7th December. Book your tickets below and check out the rest of the Christmas Film Season at Cineworld, too.
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