Directed By: Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands)
Starring: Charlie Tahan, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short
Rating: PG for thematic elements, scary images and action
Run Time: 1 hour, 27 minutes
Synopsis: Victor Frankenstein (Tahan) is a smart but solitary kid who's best friend is his dog, Sparky. When Sparky dies in an accident, Victor is heart-broken until a demonstration by his science teacher inspires him to bring his dog back to life using electricity. What Victor didn't expect was for his classmates to copy him and bring their dead pets to life, too, with disastrous results.
REVIEW
Sarah:
Last night, Andrew went and saw Tim Burton's latest
stop-action animated movie Frankenweenie. I was out on a girl's
night, so I didn't go to this one with him. GASP! But it's okay, he went with a
friend who got to experience going to the movies with a Keck for the first
time! Always a fun experience!
So, Andrew, I know you are a fan of Tim Burton. How did
his latest animated movie stack up to his other movies?
Andrew: Frankenweenie is actually
a great representation of Tim Burton's filmography. It has his fingerprints
everywhere, from the use of black and white to Danny Elfman's score that was
reminiscent of his Batman, Sleepy Hollow and Edward
Scissorhands scores.
In fact, a movie I kept thinking about during this was Edward
Scissorhands because of the neighborhood that Victor and his family
lived in. It's a little suburban town called New Holland and it looked exactly
like the neighborhood in the movie that shot Johnny Depp to stardom.
S: Now, this is the second stop-action monster
movie of the late summer/fall and we both really like the last one! How
did it measure up to ParaNorman?
