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Note: This is a review of the 2008 DVD release
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What’s this? A unique “Nightmare Before Christmas” DVD package? Actually there are three versions: this two-disc residence 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 region, it actually has three discs. The third one contains the digital copy. An instruction sheet spells out in positive steps how to download the file to an iPod or similar design.
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The movie itself is a feast for the eyes, ears and imagination. A toothsome witches’ brew of stop-motion animation, catchy present tunes and a seriously warped creative license, it always stays lawful to its timeless message: to be satisfied, be yourself. Devilishly nonconformist, it’s an enduring holiday musical for the whole Addams family.
Well, almost. Though all of its fear gags are played entirely for laughs, some of the imagery is downright creepy, especially for tiny children. Anyone older than say, 6, however, should devour every microscopic. Teenagers will like it.
The myth — 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 treasure interest, who sews herself help together when she loses a body part
* Oogie Boogie (Broadway traditional Ken Page), a slimy, singing bag of bugs who channels the cartoon version of Cab Calloway in the faded Betty Boop cartoons
* Lock (Paul “Pee-Wee Herman” Reubens), Shock (O’Hara) and Barrel (Danny Elfman, the film’s composer), a trio of corrupt trick-or-treaters who “kidnap the Sandy Claws”
* Wheelchair-bound scandalous 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 wait on to child’s level, Burton dwells in dusky 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 contrivance.
* Burton’s first short, 1982’s 6-minute “Vincent,” a black-and-white stop-action film about a boy who dreams of being Vincent Ticket, who narrates.
* Burton’s 1994 Disney live-action short “Frankenweenie.” This 30-minute black-and-white film re-imagines the Frankenstein anecdote as the memoir of a young boy and his car-struck pet dog in suburban America. A recently taped introduction by Burton shows some working sketches being passe for his full-length version now in development.
* A reading of Burton’s novel “Nightmare Before Christmas” poem by actor Christopher Lee
* A promotional film for the annual “Nightmare” makeover of Disneyland’s Shrinking Mansion.
* Promotional and making-of featurettes, a storyboard to film comparison, deleted scenes and theatrical trailers and posters
If you reflect the best movies are the ones that prove 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 gain ONE SECONDS’s worth of action) is a masterpiece of art direction, spot invent, and genuine aged storytelling. The dwelling revolves around Jack, the Pumpkin King of Halloween, and his attempt to race Christmas in dwelling of Santa Claus. “Sleigh” becomes confused with “destroy”; “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 sizable 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 itsy-bitsy 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 laughable, but not especially appropriate for the very young.
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The special edition DVD is unquestionably the version of this classic to seize. 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 resplendent 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 use HOURS exploring happily! Highly recommended as both a Halloween and Christmas treat.
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