Rated: PG.

Suitable for: Children 6 or 7 and up, keeping younger in mind. It will help if they're familiar with the story and know it will end happily.

What you should know: This is an animated version of Charles Dickens' classic, and it is done in performance-capture style (think "The Polar Express") with Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge. You can see it in 2-D, which is the regular old way, or 3-D or 3-D IMAX.

Language: None.

Sexual situations and nudity: None.

Violence/scary situations: Mood, colors and story are often dour and dark. Marley's corpse is shown in a coffin, and his face spookily appears in a door knocker and his ghost, tethered to chains and money boxes, in Scrooge's bedroom.

Most disturbing moments come when Marley adjusts his unhinged jaw, raggedy children representing Ignorance and Want appear, a spirit turns to a skeleton and then dust and when the shrouded, wordless figure from the future shows a world without Tiny Tim. Lots of falls, tumbles and some chases, too.

Drug or alcohol use: Drinks are served at parties and formal dinners.

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