Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Disappointing

I can't put my finger on just what it is about this movie that turns me off. It can't just be the absence of the magnificent Boris Karloff. Somehow, this movie feels loveless. It has a cold, cynical feeling to it to me. I simply do not get the feeling that this was done out of a love of Christmas or Dr. Suess or anything other than Mammon, the Holy Dollar. It isn't "nasty" or anything. IT will certainly entertain small children. The "backstory" of how the Grinch became "grinchy" feels forced and shallow. I just think it was ill-advised to stretch this simple, beautiful original story into this long, empty movie. To me, it's as if I decided to "improve" the Mona Lisa, because, for example, I think I can "show people what she is smiling at."