I can’t think of anything I’d love to see more than Jim Carrey starring as Scrooge in a new, big-budget version of A Christmas Carol. What’s that you say? It’s animated? Hm. Well there has to be something else Christmasy playing. A Tim Allen movie maybe? No? Damn, I guess I’ll be forced to watch this.

The first official trailer for Robert Zemeckis’s motion-capture animated adaptation of A Christmas Carol has arrived with leftover Harry Potter music and more of that still creepy animation which makes characters look like haunted puppets. Take a look: