Every generation gets the version of Dickens’ “Ghost Story of Christmas” it deserves, thus Zemeckis’ Disney-branded 3-D computer-animated spectacle is right up the alley of the all-digital-all-the-time era. The CG wizardry allows Zemeckis free reign in imagining the supernatural visitors who come to haunt Jim Carrey’s Scrooge into being a better person, which not surprisingly gives the film its best moments. At the same time, said free reign also allows him to indulge in truly ridiculous visual pyrotechnics and roller-coaster thrills, which take full advantage of the technologies available, but fail to illuminate or otherwise expand Dickens’ story in any meaningful ways. (Starplex 16, Waco, TX)