Took my 82 year old mother, my wife and daughter to it. We saw this in IMAX 3D. The effects were stunning and the sound and images intense. It almost pinned us to our seats. The 3D realism was super.
After the movie, it took all of us minutes to regain our equilibrium.
The treatment of the story, A Christmas Carol, was well done. The only exception is when Scrooge is chased by the hearse, becomes small and slides through some icicles. This will become a holiday classic even with that divergence.