REVIEW: ‘Spirited’ on Apple TV+ liberally uses Dickens fare to create a musical bonanza  

CHENNAI: A lot of what Charles Dickens wrote in his 1843 novella “A Christmas Carol” holds true even today. The miserliness of the rich and the ill treatment of the poor is common in a world where greed is all too pervasive. An Apple TV+ original, “Spirited,” directed and co-written by Sean Anders, generously uses all the ingredients of Dickens’ masterly work. We see adaptations of Dickens’ morality fare every year, but “Spirited” displays some novelty.