Note: This is a review of the 2008 DVD release
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What’s this? A unusual “Nightmare Before Christmas” DVD package? Actually there are three versions: this two-disc station that includes a downloadable digital copy, a Blu-ray version, and a collector’s edition that comes with a bust of Jack Skellington with a detachable Sandy Claus beard and hat.
Though this version is billed as a two-disc situation, it actually has three discs. The third one contains the digital copy. An instruction sheet spells out in definite steps how to download the file to an iPod or similar intention.
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The movie itself is a feast for the eyes, ears and imagination. A scrumptious witches’ brew of stop-motion animation, catchy exhibit tunes and a seriously warped creative license, it always stays legal to its timeless message: to be ecstatic, be yourself. Devilishly nonconformist, it’s an enduring holiday musical for the whole Addams family.
Well, almost. Though all of its panic gags are played entirely for laughs, some of the imagery is downright creepy, especially for runt children. Anyone older than say, 6, however, should savor every runt. Teenagers will like it.
The anecdote — the citizens of Halloweentown attempt to annex neighboring Christmastown — comes from the macabre mind of producer Tim Burton, who wrote it in his spare time (as a poem!) while working as a Disney animator in the 1980s. The movie blends the tastiest bits of Burton’s earlier Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands with a sprinkling of the stop-motion magic first found in Disney’s 1961 Babes in Toyland.
The imaginative cast of characters includes:
* Pumpkin King Jack Skellington (Chris Sarandon), a naughty misfit who believes his purpose in life is to merge the holidays of Halloween and Christmas.
* Jack’s faithful dog Zero, a ghost with a ravishing, jack-o’-lantern nose who, like the hound in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, eventually pulls a sleigh
* Rag-doll heroine Sally (voiced by Catherine O’Hara), Jack’s cherish interest, who sews herself befriend together when she loses a body part
* Oogie Boogie (Broadway mature Ken Page), a slimy, singing bag of bugs who channels the cartoon version of Cab Calloway in the former Betty Boop cartoons
* Lock (Paul “Pee-Wee Herman” Reubens), Shock (O’Hara) and Barrel (Danny Elfman, the film’s composer), a trio of nefarious trick-or-treaters who “kidnap the Sandy Claws”
* Wheelchair-bound inferior scientist Dr. Finklestein (William Hickey), a duckbilled quack whose flip-top head lets him scratch his brains for inspiration
* A mayor (Glenn Shadix, the interior director Otho in Beetlejuice) who is literally two-faced.
Blessed with the ability to bring adult minds benefit to child’s level, Burton dwells in unlit mischief. In fact, some of Nightmare’s best scenes include the kidnapping of Santa Claus and Jack’s hilarious attempt to replace him on Christmas Eve, when the skeleton gleefully delivers presents such as tree-devouring snakes and severed, shrunken heads.
Director Henry Selick painstakingly created the film over three years. Though he had a production crew of over 100, each dinky of footage took a week, as each second required 24 ever-so-slightly different shots.
BONUS FEATURES
This 2-disc DVD package has a nice collection of extras:
* An audio commentary with Burton, Selick and Elfman.
* A downloadable digital copy of the film, which you can transfer to an iPod or similar way.
* Burton’s first short, 1982’s 6-minute “Vincent,” a black-and-white stop-action film about a boy who dreams of being Vincent Sign, who narrates.
* Burton’s 1994 Disney live-action short “Frankenweenie.” This 30-minute black-and-white film re-imagines the Frankenstein fable as the epic of a young boy and his car-struck pet dog in suburban America. A recently taped introduction by Burton shows some working sketches being feeble for his full-length version now in development.
* A reading of Burton’s unusual “Nightmare Before Christmas” poem by actor Christopher Lee
* A promotional film for the annual “Nightmare” makeover of Disneyland’s Stunned Mansion.
* Promotional and making-of featurettes, a storyboard to film comparison, deleted scenes and theatrical trailers and posters
If you assume the best movies are the ones that note you a world you’ve never envisioned before, then you will Fancy Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas”. A benchmark in stop-motion animation, this incredibly difficult-to-make film (24 individually posed frames were needed to accomplish ONE SECONDS’s worth of action) is a masterpiece of art direction, plot develop, and genuine feeble storytelling. The station revolves around Jack, the Pumpkin King of Halloween, and his attempt to urge Christmas in state of Santa Claus. “Sleigh” becomes confused with “raze”; “stockings” become “stalkings”; and spirits go from joyous to ghostly as the two holidays clash together like oil and water, or fire and ice. One of the mountainous surprises of the movie is that although it dances around material that could easily careen into cynicism, it remains refreshingly sweet and light throughout. Which is not to say that some of the comedy isn’t a limited murky and perhaps geared more towards older children and adults; for example, the brief scene in which a python puppet is shown swallowing a Christmas tree whole is hysterically amusing, but not especially appropriate for the very young.
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The special edition DVD is unquestionably the version of this classic to choose. Included are a wealth of extras: the teaser and theatrical trailers; a documentary on “The Making of …”; deleted scenes and storyboards, etc, etc. The best bonuses are two short films by Burton: “Vincent”, a poetic tribute to the exquisite Vincent Mark, narrated by the subject himself; and “Frankenweenie”, a canine send-up of “Frankenstein”, starring Shelley Duvall, Daniel Stern, and a cast of talented character actors. This DVD is one that you can exercise HOURS exploring happily! Highly recommended as both a Halloween and Christmas treat.
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