How the Grinch Stole Christmas

If you are after a comedy that actually makes you laugh out loud, How the Grinch Stole Christmas is available in Australia on Amazon Prime Video and BINGE, and in the UK on Amazon Prime Video right now. The length is exactly right for the story it is telling — nothing rushed, nothing dragged out. With 8,341 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. Watch it for Jim Carrey — stay for everyone else around them. Available now on Amazon Prime Video — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

There is a reason How the Grinch Stole Christmas keeps coming up in conversation. How the Grinch Stole Christmas gets the fundamentals right first, then finds room to get weird with it. The Grinch decides to rob Whoville of Christmas - but a dash of kindness from little Cindy Lou Who and her family may be enough to melt his heart... The chemistry Jim Carrey and Taylor Momsen bring to it does a lot of the heavy lifting. It hit screens in 2000. The real test of any comedy is whether it is still funny once you know all the jokes, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas holds up on rewatch in a way that separates it from one-off curiosities. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas is the kind of thing you put on in the background and end up fully watching. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single evening. Jim Carrey anchors an ensemble with real chemistry. Genuinely funny, consistently, across the whole run.