When I was a child, I watched this film for the first time on TV. Now, I'm so glad in having this product on DVD and I watch it once and once again in Christmas time. There are new or modern versions for "The grinch" and also for "Horton" but I prefere these ancient films because they were the first and touched my heart.

Some reviews talk about the color of the grinch. In the 50th Birthday Edition (2006) he is green not yellow. I love this film and I have been replacing all my VHS copies with DVDs. It had been several years since I'd seen the grinch. So, I torn open the package and popped it in and laughed like I'd never seen it. I love the remake with Jim Carrey, but nothing beats the original!

I'm looking for the original (60's or 70's) television version of Horton Hears a Who that have the songs and chants like "Boil that dustpeck..."
Is that the version of Horton that is on this?

I got this for my granddaughter and she loves it! she is a big Grinch Fan.
I would reccommend it for any viewing age.

What can I say, everyone knows it's a classic and the reproduction quality of this remastered edition is worth buying even if you have the original.

My daughter watches this movie all year round and knows it by heart. I think Jim Carey did a great job.

I love this movie. I have watched it over each year since I was little. Now our tradition is to watch it on Christmas Eve night just before bedtime. I love the message it brings about how love makes your heart fill with compassion and gratitude. The Grinch's dog Max is hilarious and I love Cindy Lou Hoo. It is a family tradition for sure.

Best animated christmas video of all time. Timeless classic you will still watch when you're 80.

These movies are so cute. It is a great bonus to see "Horton Hears a Who" again, haven't seen that one in a while. Overall, I'm glad I bought this product.

It has been our family tradition to watch "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" cartoon every Christmas season. We were pleasantly surprised to see the vibrant colors and clarity of picture on this DVD. It is much improved over the television version. We highly recommend this DVD. We will enjoy it for years to come and share it with our grandchildren.

This 50 year old cartoon is simply the best and this remastered copy is even better. The detail and color in this dvd is superb.

This classic can still warm the coldest heart during the Holidays. Horton's a nice bonus, but the Grinch steals the show!

A must have video in every Christmas Collection! No matter how many times you watch it....you always enjoy it!

Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (50th Birthday Deluxe Remastered Edition) came in a timely fashion, and the movie was everything I remembered it to be!

One of the most awesome Christmas movies ever! This dvd has some nice features with a lot of interviews.

The Grinch is still the best, and it is wonderful to have without any commercials. I was a little disappointed with Horton. My memory of it was better than the actual show, and I don't think today's generation would like it very much. However, it is still a classic and has a great message. Are we really just a speck of dust on an elephant's nose???

I've always enjoyed "The Grinch." The animated version is so much better than the movie. My grandson was so taken by it, I had to play the DVD several times in one sitting. It will indeed become one of his holiday favorites.

My daughter-in-law and 2 grandsons are in Turkey currently and the BX didn't have the Grinch. She told me they would have a Grinchless Christmas. I couldn't have that! This is a classic Christmas favorite of mine. I couldn't let them have a Grinchless Christmas! I sent this and it arrived quickly to their APO-thank you for offering that service! They watched it several times and will in the future too! Some sites don't offer APO shipping or they charge ridiculous rates for it (Walmart). I am very pleased with this purchase!

Can you celebrate the Christmas season without watching the Grinch? I for one don't think it's possible!!! I don't care how old I get.

My 4 yr old daughter discovered this book & movie this year and was truly hooked for the season. This movie is a timeless classic and we enjoyed watching it together often.

This is a great movie, my fiance loved it. It brought back memories of watching it on tv during Christmas. However, it is a little pricey for just 30 minutes of movie. Anyway, if you're a collector, it's a must have! :)

Is there anyone who hasn't been accused of being a Grinch in the last few years? It seems that Mr. Grinch is a definite icon of Christmas, right up there with Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer. Accept no substitutes, choose the original and forget the horrible movie version. Boris Karloff, Chuck Jones and Dr. Seuss were involved in this one.

Bought this as a christmas present for a family member and they were ecstatic. Packaging looks good and it brought back good memories for the recipent.

"Horton Hears a Who" is a good introduction to the Who characters, and is typical of Dr. Suess talent for incorporating clever rhyme and cute storytelling. The animation is equal to the story, no complaints.

The reason I purchased this DVD is because of the Grinch.

This is the year my 3-year-old daughter is discovering Christmas, and the Grinch is a focal character in what I hope will become a holiday tradition around here. We've been reading the 1957 edition of the book "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" because it represents the best of Dr. Suess (my opinion) and the MGM cartoon adaptation is clever, cute, and simple in its telling and plotline.

For small children (and for nostalgia saps like me) the 1967 video version of the story is as good as any video interpretation can get. Boris Karloff provides narration and the voice of the Grinch with just the right amount of sneer in his voice, and at the end, Karloff's natural accent describes the transformation of the Grinch perfectly.

Where the Ron Howard live action film is dark and creepy (the Whos look like something from a 1960's "Twilight Zone" episode), Chuck Jones' characters are light and colorful, the songs are simple enough for children to enjoy and remember. Thurl Ravenscroft (aside from having a very cool name) sings a great baritone "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch". My daughter pretty much has the book memorized and now she sings "Welcome Christmas" in all the right places when she recites the story.

Sorry, but it is kind of sweet.

So, my recommendation is to skip Ron Howard's over-produced, over-analyzed, and, I might add, rather creepy and nightmare-inducing, interpretation of "The Grinch" (let's leave the psychological implications Opie Taylor's Grinch to his therapist) and introduce the tots in our lives to something much more palatable for their impressionable young minds.

This dvd contains Spanish and French language tracks. But something about Spanish dubbing in these older films is that the audio quality is HORRIBLE. Not only that, the songs are not translated into Spanish, but instead revert to English.

I'm a Spanish teacher and was wanting to use this for my Spanish class for a fun thing to watch in class during the Christmas season but wished the audio quality were better and that it was all in the language it says it will be in.

The English version is great but since I am dissapointed with the Spanish version, I'll only give it three stars.

The movie came out in 1966, and somehow 40 YEARS later it is a "50th" anniversary special. Keep the boxes on this Fubar, it might be worth something someday.

I must agree with the reviewer who was complaining about the color of the Grinch. The Grinch in THIS version is indeed YELLOW, not green. On the cover of the DVD case, the Grinch is Green. On the disc itself, the Grinch is Green. In the actual show, however, the Grinch is definitely YELLOW. Obviously a bad transfer to DVD. I've put this DVD on several DVD players and it is always YELLOW, so it's this version of the Show, not the DVD players. This version of the show should have been recalled. I've heard that the 40-year anniversary edition has the original Green color restored.

Seuss and Jones, two masters of their crafts, combine here to create one of my favorite works of art, period.
The morals ring truer than ever, the voices are incredible (Karloff is legendary, Carrey's version is nowhere near this), and the artwork is perfection.
This may be the single finest cartoon ever made, all of Bugs B included. It is a masterpiece in every sense of the word, and has as much to offer adults as kids, maybe more in our incredibly selfish world. Seuss's take on pathetic Xmas commericalization gets truer every year. Watching this on tv surrounded by ads is one of the great modern ironic experiences.
Much better to just get this dvd. Paired with Horton, one of Seuss's other completely genius works, there's more enlightenment for your kid here in less than an hour than s/he'll get in a year of normal entertainment (or should I say marketing? Kids' stuff now is all one big ad, if it was ever otherwise). What Christmas cartoon would Jesus watch? The Grinch, no question. Might be tough to work the remote, though.
Grinch and Horton make so many deep comments on our culture and our species while looking gorgeously unique. Plus, they're as fun as they can be.
That's as good as art gets.

If you want to preserve all those wonderful childhood memories, The Grinch is a must-have. The adults will watch this over and over, and the children (and grandchildren) will also come to appreciate it. From the Grinch down to the residents of Whoville, it portrays the spirit of love and sharing, and the true spirit of the Christmas Season. Get it and share it!

My granddaughters (6 & 3)love this movie.I had a VCR tape & the machine ate it so I needed a backup.

Love it! Who doesn't love Dr. Seuss and the Who's in Whoville. Great family movie with no advertisements. A must have for any home with or without kids. I have watched it by myself on occasion. I am a BIG Dr. Seuss fan. Check out the great selection of Dr. Seuss books on Amazon our family owns many titles. They great for reading to k-6th graders at school or home.

Wow! I just watched this newest edition of the Grinch, and what a difference! The COLORS are FABULOUS! He never looked better! The remastering is, well, masterful; and I never saw this wonderful Christmas feature so beautifully represented.
All the hundreds of times I watched this before have been in B&W by comparison!
"You're a Mean One-Mr Grinch! You have Termites in your Soul!"
Sung by the inimitable Thurl Ravenscroft (what a great name!) who also voiced one of the Ghosts on the Haunted Mansion ride, ( a Singing Bust in the Graveyard) lends a thrilling richness to the feature, as great as the voice of Boris Karloff as the Grinch himself.
An extra feature on this disc is the Making of...including interviews with Mrs Theodore Geisel, AKA Mrs Seuss, and Chuck Jones, who worked closely with his old friend Dr Seuss, at first reluctant to animate his story, but who thawed after seeing the drawings and hearing the great songs, esp the one on Christmas Morning.
Horton hears a Who is included, and this is just wonderful...so sweet.
One day Dr Seuss was sitting at his desk littered with sketches when a breeze wafted in and blew a drawing of an elephant onto a drawing of a tree, which set Seuss to thinking: "What is that elephant doing up in that tree?" which led to Horton Hatches the Egg.
Seuss's wonderful surrealist POV is the child's version of Dali, and another favorite Seuss work of mine is the sets he created for "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T."
This set also includes Phil Hartman's Grinch special and pencil tests.
But the real star here is the incredible colors and how magnificent the Grinch looks in his splendid coat of bright Green. You've never seen this great feature so beautifully done until you get this version! The packaging is wonderful with sparkles all over the jacket.

The 1966 cartoon version of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" has rightly become a Christmas season classic. Its simple but evocative storyline is brought to life by the pairing of animator Chuck Jones with original artist Theodor Geisel. Boris Karloff's absolutely superb narration is the thing of genius that makes the whole movie work.

The story is familar to anyone who has been young in the last forty years: The Grinch, a Christmas-hater, lives near Whoville, populated by Whos, a cheery bunch who celebrate Christmas with abandon. The Grinch has the stoke of awful inspiration one Christams Eve to sneak into Whoville and steal all the holiday paraphanalia, and stop Christmas from coming. Disguised as Santa Claus, the Grinch makes away with all the presents, decorations, and food, only to discover that he has missed the point about Christmas altogether. His moment of relevation may be the highlight of the whole movie.

This movie is highly recommended as a Christmas Classic suitable for all ages.

As a child of 4 or 5 years old, watching this, I have to say that Boris Karloff's rendering of the Grinch gave me literal nightmares. But then I always loved a movie that could enter my slumber, so even the nightmares of my childhood were a welcome adrenaline rush.

I realize this is a movie you're probably only supposed to watch at Christmas time, but honestly I can watch it in the middle of July and enjoy it just as much as if I I were watching it on Christmas Morning!

When I was a kid, it was about the lesson learned by the Grinch. He learned to let people in, to love and to be loved. He learned the true meaning of being a cheerful giver.

As a grown-up, it's about being able to harken back to a simpler time. About re-living those moments I so enjoyed in my youth. The Grinch is more than a holiday classic. It's a journey into one of the most enjoyable aspects of a person's past.

It's beautifully drawn... as I already said, the voices are positively mesmerizing. The message/moral/theme is very positive and clear. Tell me what's NOT to like about this movie?

My 4 year old son loves the Grinch. We bought this because the tape was worn out. It is nice and clear and is the original we all remember. And even though we didnt think we were getting "Horton Hears a Who" it was included on the disc.