Average Rating: 8.2/10
Reviews Counted: 72
Fresh: 69 | Rotten: 3
A stunningly original and visually delightful work of stop-motion animation.
Average Rating: 8/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 1
A stunningly original and visually delightful work of stop-motion animation.
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Despite having recently presided over a very successful Halloween, Jack Skellington, aka the Pumpkin King, is bored with his job and feels that life in Halloweenland lacks meaning. Then he stumbles upon Christmastown and promptly decides to make the Yuletide his own.
PG, 1 hr. 16 min.
Oct 24, 1993 Wide
Dec 2, 1997
$8.6M
Touchstone Pictures
All Critics (73) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (75) | Rotten (3) | DVD (39)
A fun house of funereal glamour.
The set designs are ingenious and the songs (music and lyrics by Danny Elfman) are fairly good.
The dazzling techniques employed here create a strikinglook that's never been seen in such sustained form, making this a unique curio that will appeal to kids and film enthusiasts alike.
The hippest of all holiday classics, the 1993 release rendered anew in 3-D format remains a postmodern three-ring circus of morbid humor, eye-popping puppet animation and show-stopping songs.
Flattened for years on cable and video, Nightmare has been resurrected in all its tactile glory.
(Producer Tim) Burton's skewed vision is seamlessly realized by director Henry Selick and cleverly enhanced by Danny Elfman's songs.
Tim Burton magic with just a touch of scariness.
...endlessly delightful, even as it deals in icky bugs and severed limbs.
O tom divertidamente sombrio da narrative, associado a uma direção de arte magnífica e à ótima trilha de Elfman, acaba resultando num conto de fadas que deve tanto aos Grimm quanto ao Expressionismo Alemão.
Let's hope the next time Disney re-releases this on home video... they will include the 3D version.
inspiring, wacky, and infused with Burton's unique romanticism suffused with, but not subsumed by, a gothic sensibility
A twisted revamp of Rankin-Bass by way of Edward Gorey. [Blu-ray]
a brilliant feat of movie making
Burton says that he was impressed by the Blu-ray version because it 'brings out all the textures and nuances' of the artwork. And it's true. As good as the DVD looked, the Blu-ray captures the fidelity of details even in the murkiest scenes.
Leave it to Disney to bring a film back to life over and over again just to make a buck. Fortunately, Nightmare Before Christmas is good enough to withstand all of the reanimation.
Tim Burton`s skewered sensibility finds excellent expression through the masterful stop-motion of director Henry Selick. The songs and score by Danny Elfman are wonderful; the characters are engaging; the visuals are enthralling.
This hugely entertaining horror fable for all the family might suffer from pacing problems, but it's also a true original that still stands out from today's CGI-heavy crowd.
The result, though refreshingly different from mainstream animated fare, is ultimately more trick than treat.
The problem with this is that it's both a Christmas film and a Halloween film and that doesn't really work. At Halloween it's too early to be thinking about Christmas but at Christmas it's too late to be thinking about Halloween and you just want pure Christmas. It is a good film with a good story and morals but it
July 25, 2006Super Reviewer
I remember seeing this in the theater as a kid. The main thing I remember is it's the first movie I saw with my mom where she fell asleep. I didn't think it was all that great at the time. However, time has been good to this movie. It's pretty much a cult classic now(hell my brother Matt has all kinds of
December 24, 2011Super Reviewer
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