Nightmare before Christmas
By: Taylor Null
Henry Selick directed a dark animated and clay mated children’s comedy. The setting is Halloween town, Christmas town and a little bit of the real world. There are six main characters, Jack Skellington, Sally,The mayor, Evil doctor, Santa, and zero.
In this movie Jack is tired of the same old thing year after year. He wants a change. He finds some doors. On each door is a holiday symbol. He finds one with a tree, and goes in and discovers Christmas town. Once back to Halloween town, a town meeting is called and he announces that they are going to steal Christmas. Sally, who is a ragdoll that an evil doctor made, she’s made out of fabric, stuffing and stitching string, she thinks that stealing Christmas is a bad idea. When Jack is in Christmas town looking under the bed it’s almost as if he’s looking right at you. And lastly when he falls right under the Christmas town sign it feels like you are looking at it too. Some interesting uses of colors made is at Halloween town it’s dark, gloomy, and makes everything look kind of scary and Christmas town is bright, happy, and makes someone feel like they are welcome.Tim Burton producer of this film also did some early short films such as Vincent, and Frankenweenie. Vincent is Tim Burton’s directorial debut. Frankenweenie is the uncut version of Tim Burton’s live-action directorial debut. This movie is a good movie. I would recommend you watch it because it has a little romance, a little singing, and it’s a little scary. So if you like a little bit of all of that then this is the movie.
I like how you did a short filmography of Tim Burton. It gives your reader something else to see if they liked this movie. You could give a little more information about the characters and the setting, as well as some build up in the plot line. I also appreciate that you pointed out that this was a claymation movie. It lets readers know what they are in for.
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