We loved this review of both Alan Silvestri’s score and “God Bless Us Everyone,” co-written by Alan and Glen:

“There are plenty of moments of bliss for Alan Silvestri fans in A Christmas Carol. For a film that never seems to stop zooming over the skyline of Victorian England, Silvestri whips his orchestra over the snowy city tops with the glee of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The Ghost of Christmas Future chases Scrooge about with hellzapoppin’ glee, and the gossamer music for the Ghost of Christmas beautifully flows into a variation on Gabriel Faure’s “Requiem.” Devastatingly sorrowful strings flood Scrooge as he realizes Tiny Tim’s fate, a wall of orchestral sound that becomes chorally ominous as Ebenezer realizes his own horrible destiny. If Ebenezer’s sudden finding of a heart might seem just a bit fast, it’s Silvestri’s music that makes you buy the transformation with all of the accompanying God-bless-us-everyone rejoicement. And adding immeasurably to the stirring climax is the Silvestri / Glen Ballard tune “God Bless Us Everyone” which Andrea Bocelli sings with full, operatic bliss. It’s another memorable tune from the duo that wrote “A Hero Comes Home” for Beowolf. And if that thrumming theme was the equivalent of marching into Valhalla, then “God Bless Us Everyone” shines with the kind of heartwarming, religioso majesty that is what Christmas is really about- or so films like this tell us.”