I saw this film once as a kid, it's older than me so I probably saw it in like 2005 or something, so it was super fuzzy. I remember thinking it was kinda scary but that's all I really remember was the first 20 minutes or something. I saw it for the 2nd time in my life last night, the 10th, and I must say, for a comedy, it's quite heartwarming and clever. It's not perfect, but it's actually quite nuanced.

They offer multiple criticisms for the over-commercialization of Christmas within the first couple shots, and throughout the film. The original story simplifies the message into "all the Whos love Christmas and the Grinch couldn't steal their love for it"

 and instead of "whatever the reason, his heart or his shoes" it actually gives a great exploration for why the grinch was "evil"
his backstory is a little contradictory to the story and I think it damages the message ever so slightly, but it really is quite great to see that he was rejected and mocked and kinda traumatized due to just being different, so he, kinda like megamind, decided that if everyone was going to see him as evil, he was going to embrace it
honry generator — Today at 12:31 PM
but he's miserable because nobody ever treated him well and the only person (his age at least) who liked him was too shy to say it
the jokes were also really freakin clever
i was laughing out loud when sara's family wasn't cuz they've seen it a billion times and they were like how have you seen this and i was like idc bruh that's funny