Fresh Eyes FIRST TAKE: "Spirited"
Spirited , the 2022 Apple TV+ film starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds, was released this November, and it isn't being talked about nearly enough as it should be. CAUTION: Spoilers ahead! This film, which doubles as a movie musical, retells the Charles Dickens story, "A Christmas Carol", but from the perspective of the ghosts. Now, I know what you're thinking -- "Do we really need another retelling of the same story we've heard a million times before?" Trust me, I'm tired of it, too. That's what my mindset was going into this film, but as I got farther into it, I had no idea what was going to happen next or how it was going to end. It took everything I knew about the prior story and turned it on its head. Spirited follows the Ghost of Christmas Present (Will Ferrell), also known as Present, along with his coworkers, Past (Sunita Mani), and Yet-To-Come (Tracey Morgan). Each Christmas Eve, their headquarters chooses a new person on Earth t