Tim Burton's The Nightmare before Christmas (1993)
(The Nightmare before Christmas)
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 75m
Director: Henry Selick
Cast: animated (voices: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey)
Synopsis:
The king of Hallowe'en land has a vision of Christmas and determines to make it his own, but nefarious elements of his own realm and increasing megalomania compromise his ideals.
Review:
Burton's gothic fantasy, reminiscent of his Edward Scissorhands in its imagery, is realised in superb stop-frame animation of the kind Nick Park was to make fashionable but which had long held sway in Eastern Europe. The detail is inventive, at times ghoulish, the humour black and verging on adult, and the Elfman songs are quite charming. It does all become a mite exhausting after a while, though.
(The Nightmare before Christmas)
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 75m
Director: Henry Selick
Cast: animated (voices: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey)
Synopsis:
The king of Hallowe'en land has a vision of Christmas and determines to make it his own, but nefarious elements of his own realm and increasing megalomania compromise his ideals.
Review:
Burton's gothic fantasy, reminiscent of his Edward Scissorhands in its imagery, is realised in superb stop-frame animation of the kind Nick Park was to make fashionable but which had long held sway in Eastern Europe. The detail is inventive, at times ghoulish, the humour black and verging on adult, and the Elfman songs are quite charming. It does all become a mite exhausting after a while, though.
(The Nightmare before Christmas)
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 75m
Director: Henry Selick
Cast: animated (voices: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey)
Synopsis:
The king of Hallowe'en land has a vision of Christmas and determines to make it his own, but nefarious elements of his own realm and increasing megalomania compromise his ideals.
Review:
Burton's gothic fantasy, reminiscent of his Edward Scissorhands in its imagery, is realised in superb stop-frame animation of the kind Nick Park was to make fashionable but which had long held sway in Eastern Europe. The detail is inventive, at times ghoulish, the humour black and verging on adult, and the Elfman songs are quite charming. It does all become a mite exhausting after a while, though.