This DVD item from Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone was reviewed on 16-Apr-2009.
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1) DVD DVD The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition) by Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone. Of all the American movie directors practicing their craft today - either with live action or animation, Tim Burton is hands down the most distinctive in a visual sense. Knowing nothing else of plot, title or characters, I think any observer could unerringly identify a collection of stills from his movies jumbled in with hundreds of others.
"The Nightmare Before Christmas" is the ultimate Tim Burton movie - a witty, complicated feast for the eyes - and done in that most complicated and painstaking way imaginable, through stop-motion photography. The story is as simple as a child´s picture book, and the moral of it equally straight forward; best to be yourself than to be something you are not. Jack Skellington, the doyen of Halloween town, is bored with it all, and tries out being Santa Claus, with comically disastrous results. Plot in a nutshell, but ornamented with such baroque and deliciously dark detail!
This set, which includes a completely remastered version of the movie and a disc of extra features, plus a digital version for your PC, comes in an ornate case about the size of a single VHS. This negates some of the space-saving advantage of a DVD library, but it is a very attractive cover at that. The bonus features include the usual `making´ of feature, which goes into painstaking detail over how the character puppets were created and jointed, placed into the set and photographed one tiny motion at a time. There is a close look at the sets - Halloween Town, Christmas Town and `the real world´, a collection of omitted scenes, and a comparison of the storyboard version to the completed release. There are two standouts in the extras. The first is a short animated film by Tim Burton of his own poem "Vincent" -about a little boy equally obsessed with Edgar Allen Poe and being Vincent Price, which is narrated by Vincent Price himself. The second is a black and white version of the Frankenstein story; Frankenweenie, in which a boy reanimates his beloved dog. Both shorts can be spotted as Tim Burton movies from a mile away, especially in "Frankenweenie´s" cemetery scene.
¤ 2) DVD DVD The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition) by Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone. The transfer to Blu ray is perfect. What an ideal movie to watch on blu ray¤ 3) DVD DVD The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition) by Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone. This is a great collection. Takes the place of my old VCR tape version. Loved the extras - Frankenweenie and Vincent.¤ 4) DVD DVD The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition) by Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone. Loved it 10 years ago...had it on tape but it got damaged.glad to have a permanent copy for my library¤ 5) DVD DVD The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition) by Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone. This movie is pleasing to watch. One can easily see the details that went into the characters, the animation, and the background. Plus, the songs are catchy and entertaining. But, who cares? A good movie is only good if its story is good, and this movie´s dark, whimsical plot makes it a classic.
Nightmare Before Christmas´s unique story is about Jack Skellington and his role in Halloween Town, but he is bored with his town´s repetitive rituals. He leaves the town to find something new, and he finds it in Christmas Land. Jack is intrigued by this land and plans to take over Christmas this year. Exciting, right? Yes...and no! The tension between Sally and Dr. Finkelstein distracts me from the overall story.
Their relationship is disturbing because it represents verbal and mental abusive. Dr. Finkelstein constantly remains Sally that he owns her, and he even locks her in a room, so she doesn´t escape his control. Sally hates Dr. Finkelstein and performs extreme tactics to free herself from him. She dislocates her arm, poisons him, and jumps out of a window. There are moments in the movie where I am scared for Sally because I think Dr. Finkelstein is going to hit or kill her.
Another problem in the story is Oogie Boogie. He randomly arrives toward the end of the movie and tortures Santa. I don´t understand why he does this? I don´t even understand his place in Halloween town. How did he become evil? Why did Jack lock him up in that dungeon? It seems like Oogie Boogie is thrown in the story so the audience could have someone to hate. I will admit, I like Oogie´s musical number, but he is a cheap character. He needs more development, or he shouldn´t be in the story at all.
With these two negative aspects sprinkled in the story, this movie is still worth watching. Nightmare Before Christmas is the best-animated movie because it´s story, and then its visuals, sets it apart from the pack.
Sabrina P.
¤ 6) DVD DVD The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition) by Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone. Enter an extraordinary world filled with magic and wonder -- where every holiday has its own special land ... and imaginative, one-of-a-kind characters! THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS tells the heartfelt tale of Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, and all things that go bump in the night. Bored with the same old tricks and treats, he yearns for something more, and soon stumbles upon the glorious magic of Christmas Town! Jack decides to bring this joyful holiday back to Halloween Town. But as his dream to fill Santa´s shoes unravels, it´s up to Sally, the rag doll who loves him, to stitch things back together. This critically acclaimed movie milestone captured the heart and imagination of audiences everywhere with its Academy Award(R)-nominated stop-motion effects, engaging Grammy(R)-nominated music, and the genius of Tim Burton (BATMAN, PLANET OF THE APES). THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHIRSTMAS -- a delightful treat the whole family will enjoy!¤ 7) DVD DVD The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition) by Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone. For those who never thought Disney would release a film in which Santa Claus is kidnapped and tortured, well, here it is! The full title is Tim Burton´s The Nightmare Before Christmas, which should give you an idea of the tone of this stop-action animated musical/fantasy/horror/comedy. It is based on characters created by Burton, the former Disney animator best known as the director of Pee-wee´s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and the first two Batman movies. His benignly scary-funny sensibility dominates the story of Halloweentown resident Jack Skellington (voice by Danny Elfman, who also wrote the songs), who stumbles on a bizarre and fascinating alternative universe called ... Christmastown! Directed by Henry Selick (who later made the delightful James and the Giant Peach), this PG-rated picture has a reassuringly light touch. As Roger Ebert noted in his review, "some of the Halloween creatures might be a tad scary for smaller children, but this is the kind of movie older kids will eat up; it has the kind of offbeat, subversive energy that tells them wonderful things are likely to happen." --Jim Emerson¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 14-May-2009, 6305949980717951009395, 790-806-O1B-S8B-7KB-7UB-0MB-34B-AGB-X8B-KIB-1GB-20B-EOB-SOB-FMB-DCB-8 
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