But the movie actually did a pretty good job with the story, which is well paced and has moments of genuine - if mild - suspense. It's also - and this is to be expected from any Tim Burton movie - really good looking, with stylish black and white animation and a cast of creepy looking kids. As someone familiar with the original movies, I appreciate the way it pays tribute to its source material. It is also wonderfully imaginative, most notably in the first resuscitation scene.
One criticism; even by the standards of kids cartoons or old horror movies, this thing makes zero sense. The lack of any sort of logic is, however, so in-your-face that I accept it as purposeful and thus just accept that this is a movie that's not supposed to make any sense. FAQ 1. What about the live action shorter version also directed by Tim Burton?
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Epstein as Mrs. Paul Bartel Mr. Walsh as Mr. Paul C. Scott Mike Anderson as Mike Anderson. Helen Boll Mrs. Curtis as Mrs. The Weird Girl, with Whiskers, procures a dead bat. The children individually produce their own makeshift Jacob's Ladders and point them into the sky. Lightning strikes them all. Edgar's rat is seemingly pulverized, and Edgar flees the school when he hears the gym teacher walking through the hallway.
Toshiaki's turtle, Shelly, had been shocked along with a bottle of Miracle Grow and disappeared after the strike. Nassor waits at the entrance to the crypt, while a huge, hulking shadow makes its way up the stairs. Whiskers, halfway through the strike, started playing with the dead bat, and the pair were electrocuted together. The gym teacher, at the school, is suddenly attacked by a five-foot tall, bipedal, ferocious rat the result of Edgar's experiment.
It chases the gym teacher outside and runs away. Bob's swimming pool glows blue with electricity, and dozens of three-feet tall, Gremlin-like Sea Monkeys emerge from the water and terrorize the neighborhood. Nassor's "Colossus" is a tiny, slow-moving hamster. Whiskers has somehow fused with the bat—the cat's appendages grow long, and disgusting black wings unfurl from its back.
It takes off into the night, shrieking awfully. Victor arrives at the cemetery, where he finds Sparky nestling his grave. Victor carefully approaches him, and the pair make up. Victor sees recently dug-up graves for Shelly and Colossus and soon hears panicked screams from the town's Dutch Fair.
At the fair, Mayor Burgemeister is forcing Elsa Van Helsing to sing a drab song about Dutch Day while wearing a crown of burning candles on her head. The carnival's opening ceremony is upset by the appearance of Shelly, the Sea Monkeys, Edgar's Wererat, and to a lesser degree, Colossus. Victor and co. The Wererat tries attacking Sparky, bites down on his electric neck bolts, and electrocutes himself back to death. Toshiaki and Nassor, still bitter classroom competitors, pose their monsters against one another.
Colossus is easily squished by Shelly's massive foot. Toshiaki films the anticlimactic battle from the carnival's Ferris Wheel but is soon threatened by Shelly. Shelly stands in a puddle of spilled beer and is electrocuted by a nearby spark. She dies and returns to her original size. The townspeople, intent upon destroying all the monsters, see Sparky and chase him from the fairgrounds. Vampire Cat Whiskers arrives, grabs Persephone, Elsa chases after them, and escapes to the windmill at the center of town.
Victor chases after them. Vampire Cat Whiskers holds Elsa and Persephone hostage at the top of the windmill, and Victor arrives to save them. Outside, the townspeople have arrived after chasing Sparky and are waving flaming torches. Mayor Burgermeister threatens Sparky to give up Elsa before accidentally setting the windmill on fire.
All but Sparky and Vampire Cat Whiskers manage to escape to safety. Inside the burning building, Sparky defends himself from the vastly stronger Vampire Cat Whiskers.
A piece of flaming debris falls from high and manages to skewer Vampire Cat Whiskers down the middle, killing it. Sparky is buried by the collapsing windmill. Victor cries for Sparky. As the flames settle, Sparky's body is rescued from the debris and brought out to Victor. The townspeople collectively join jumper cables in the parking lot and hook them up to Sparky's body.
They rev their engines all at once and send fresh electricity into Sparky's body. He continues to lay there, motionless. Victor, willing to accept Sparky's fate, bids him farewell and returns to his parents. Sparky slowly comes to, alive, and barks excitedly. Victor is thrilled, and Persephone and Sparky share a brief romantic spark.
Although Tim Burton signed with Disney to direct two films in Disney Digital 3D, including Alice in Wonderland and his remake of Frankenweenie , development for its full-length stop motion version dates as far back as November , when scripts had been written by Josann McGibbon and Sara Parriott.
John August was approached for a rewrite in , but was not hired until January Like the original, the feature version is shot in black and white. Many of the animation artists and crew from Corpse Bride are involved.
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