The Nightmare Before Christmas (2020)

I wanted to but couldn't!

Best movie of this year hands down!

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas follows the story of Jack Skellington (voiced by Danny Elfman and Chris Sarandon) as he becomes disillusioned with his role as the Pumpkin King and wants more out of life. This is a tale that everyone can understand in that many times throughout life, people are simply not as satisfied with where they are. Jack is joined by the rest of Halloweentown in his quest to introduce Christmas to the residents. The residents blindly follow Jack's lead with the exception of Sally (voiced by Catherine O'Hara). Throughout the film, Sally tries to get Jack to follow his normal path, as Christmas is already being handled by the residents of Christmastown. Each character in Christmas town is themed after a different aspect of fear, and they tend to blend together well. As fishmen, vampires, and even a clown with a tear away face group up, each has their own part to play in the film. Because this is a claymation style musical, music and sound is everything to the plot, and it is done in a way that gets the songs stuck in your head so that you will find yourself singing along during any viewing after the first. This is because of Danny Elfman who wrote the score. The score itself fits a Tim Burton film and likely is because they have worked together many times in the past. During The Nightmare Before Christmas, it is impossible to ignore the similarities between this and Betelgeuse not only because of the team up of Tim Burton, Danny Elfman, Catherine O'Hara, and Glen Shadix (The Mayor of HalloweenTown), but also because there are subtle nods in the animated film as well. During one scene with the main antagonist, Oogie Boogie, there are a pair of dice that landed on snake eyes. Out of the holes in the one die slithers a snake that looks remarkably like a miniature sand snake from Betelgeuse. This quick nod along with Jack dressed in a black and white pinstripe and coupled with the score that is reminiscent of Betelgeuse is enough to instantly bring back thoughts of both movies. The Nightmare Before Christmas isn't entirely without fault, however. There are times where you can visibly see the wires holding certain bats or other props in place, however the use of light is such that is tends to mask the majority of the flaws. In some cases, you have to look hard to see them, even if you are told they are there. The motif of fear is presented at the forefront, which makes sense given that the main setting is Halloweentown. This does present itself in Jack as well. Jack isn't simply discontent with his position in life, he comes off as being afraid that being the King of Halloween is all he will amount to in life. I believe that is his impetus to find a new passion. Overall, The Nightmare Before Christmas is a fun-hearted musical about a guy just trying to chase a dream. With a solid score of musical numbers and an art style that isn't often seen in cinema, The Nightmare Before Christmas is a great family movie that is fun to watch at any time of the year.

The Nightmare Before Christmas is a 1993 American stop-motion animated musical fantasy drama starring Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickley, Ken Page, Paul Reubens, and Glenn Shadix. The Plot: Jack Skellington (Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon), a resident from "Halloween Town" who stumbles through a portal to "Christmas Town" and decides to celebrate the holiday with disastrous consequences. The Nightmare Before Christmas was originally a poem written by Tim Burton in 1982, when Burton was working as an animator at Walt Disney Feature Animation. With the success of Burton's "Vincent" in the same year, Walt Disney Studios began to contemplate whether to release The Nightmare Before Christmas as a short film or a 30-minute TV Special. Many years passed, and Tim Burton developed thoughts about this project more and more over time. He made a deal with Disney in the year 1990. The production for the movie started in July of 1991 in San Francisco, California, USA. Disney decided to release the film through the Touchstone Pictures banner stating that they thought that The Nightmare Before Christmas would be "too frightening for kids." The film was a huge success, grossing $76.2 million over its theatrical run on a budget of $18,000,000. Danny Elfman's film score and his singing voice for Jack is absolutely amazing. This is for sure director Henry Selick's masterpiece and his best film. It was nominated the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, the first for an animated film. An absolute masterpiece and my favorite christmas movie and holiday movie of all-time. 10/10.

The Nightmare Before Christmas is focused around a skeleton whom everyone calls Jack the Pumpkin King, he is voiced by Chris Sarandon but sang by Danny Elfman. Jack finds that he is starting to become bored with doing the same thing every year for Halloween and wants to do something different. Jack and Zero start to wonder around and found a forest with different holidays with doors as the holiday theme, he gets dragged into the Christmas one. There he is amazed with all the different lights, sounds and everything that is different compared to his Halloween Town. Its bright, cheery and festive. They really capture everything with all the different angles they show us from him peeking into the window and seeing the elves kissing under the mistletoe, him jumping around on top of the houses, riding the carousal and finally you see from Jacks point of view then he is looking at the sign for Christmas Town. When he goes back you can feel the difference because in Christmas town it was fun and festive, lights everywhere and the moon looked brighter while lighting up the town while Halloween Town is more dark and dreary, having an overcast to make it feel dulled down. It is a stop motion animation, so the lighting is different than a motion picture, but you can still see the different lighting techniques that help make this movie stand out. They use low-key lighting and high-key lighting though the movie and this is where you can really see the difference between the towns, but they do use a lot of side lighting to instead of just a light overhang. This gives you the impression with the shadows and making it feel a bit darker.Jack does different experiments and decides that he is going to take over Christmas. Giving out different jobs to his fellow towns people on how to make Christmas better then before. He asked Santa to be brought to him, unharmed but the kids decided the best place to keep him comfortable is with Oogie Boogie. Sally, voiced by Catherine O'Hara, tries to tell Jack that what he is doing is wrong. But he doesn't listen and continues to do what he wants, making Halloween toys, and having his own costume. This leads him to ruin Christmas for everyone and being shot out of the sky. After a clear moment in the graveyard he realizes that he is The Pumpkin King and he great at being himself, not someone else. He races off to rescue Santa and Sally from Oogie Boogie, who is trying to get rid of them. Jack saves the them both and Santa tells him to not take over his holiday again and listen to Sally. Christmas was saved with Santa fixing all Jacks mistakes, and Jack is happy to be The Pumpkin King again with Sally by his side. The music scores for this movie is great and keeps the audience entertained. You have the notes becoming higher when it's an important scene or they are singing, but it mellows out into the background the rest of the time. This gives the movie a well-rounded music score with the scenes because it tells the story with the dialogue. Tim Burton has a certain feel to his movies and this is no exception. It reminds me a little of the Corpse Bride on how the lighting is in some of the scenes but its also a stop motion animation too. There is some romance to it, but it doesn't show until the end where both parties come together. They must learn and comes to terms with certain issues before they get their happily ever after to their story.

First of all, don't tell me this is a kid's movie and you're not supposed to think about it. You can take that attitude outside right now. Obviously, this movie looks fantastic. It really makes you realize how boring these CGI Pixar kiddie flicks have become when you see highly detailed, real-life animation like this. That's the beginning and end of what makes this movie good.In one scene, we see Jack Skellington singing on a hillside about how bored he is with Halloween. You can see a full moon behind him. The next night we see the night sky and it's a crescent moon. Moon phases don't happen that quickly. Jack Skellington wanders into the woods and finds doorways into other Holiday worlds. How has nobody discovered these doors before? He steps through a door and falls into Christmas world. You see no doorways back, but somehow he gets back. How??The Halloween crew kidnap Santy Clause and bring him back to Halloween world. There's a scene where they have to shove his fat butt down a ventilation shaft. They have a difficult time and you see the shaft buldge out as he gets sucked down. Uh, this is Santa Clause. He drops down chimneys effortlessly. Why is he having a hard time here?Santa is completely helpless during this whole movie. Why? Doesn't he have magic powers? Why doesn't he fight back? At the VERY end, when they save Santa, you know what he does? Just flies away! He smashes through the ceiling! Why didn't he do that to begin with??Most sane people would agree that Tim Burton can't make good movies anymore. Many people who hold this opinion will include "Nightmare Before Christmas" as one of his last good films. Well, I beg to differ, boys and girls. I give this movie an F+.