Frankenweenie Reviews
The Standard
The real audience here is Burton fans (add an extra star to this review if you're a Burton fan).
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| Original Score: 3/5
Flix Capacitor
Something of a return to form for Tim Burton, Frankenweenie plays like a Greatest Hits by way of his early work.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Movie Chambers
"Frankenweenie" is not just cute, it's weird. And, I love it.
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| Original Score: A-
Cinema Crazed
A bittersweet and delightful bit of animated fare...
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Top CriticTim Burton's most enjoyable movie in a long time.
Austin American-Statesman
Tim Burton's Frankenweenie embodies the excitement, innocence, awkwardness and imagination of childhood.
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| Original Score: B+
Boston Phoenix
Extended to feature length, the premise doesn't thin out but gains substance and momentum.
Movie Metropolis
"Frankenweenie" isn't Burton's best work, but it's still a solid outing for the strange, death-obsessed director.
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| Original Score: 7/10
eFilmCritic.com
Disney should've had more faith in this premise back in 1984, when it mattered, instead of shocking it back to a bigger life now...
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| Original Score: 3/5
Time to Play Magazine
Victor's relationship with Sparky is lovely, even when the revivified dog corpse is stitched together with thick black thread and his tail or ear falls off.
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
While not a true original in its own right, and therefore not a classic, it is still classic Burton with his creepy, kooky trademarks, so we'll take it.
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| Original Score: B
Ultra Culture
Maintains the legitimately dark tone of the original short while expanding the narrative in a pleasingly Scissorhands-esque direction.
3AW
In the very best sense, the film is wall-to-wall eye candy.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
'Frankenweenie' is far from his best, but it is a timely reassurance that the old Tim Burton still exists and may be able to work his black magic again.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Film4
Beautiful, technically astonishing animation and the emotional whack of a lightning bolt cannot quite hide the stitches holding together a paucity of ideas and humour.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Film Geek Central
Even though it's not among his best films, I'm just happy that Tim Burton has finally made a movie I can recommend to people again.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Birmingham Mail
Frankenweenie is rammed with credible horror references, so this is a great movie for children to see if you want to them to develop a good perspective of film history in years to come.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Trespass
Visually captivating and smartly written, Frankenweenie brings Tim Burton's career back from the metaphorical dead.
At the Movies (Australia)
I loved this. It is so beautiful and there's almost an innocence to it that Burton achieves.
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| Original Score: 4/5
At the Movies (Australia)
It was wise to make the film in black and white, and 3D adds to the charm of this sweetly retro experience. Sparky is hereby added to my list of the cinema's most endearing woofers.
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| Original Score: 4/5
