Catherine O'Hara

Martin Short

Martin Landau

Charlie Tahan

Atticus Shaffer

Winona Ryder

Robert Capron

James Hiroyuki Liao

Conchata Ferrell

Tom Kenny

Frank Welker

Dee Bradley Baker

Jeff Bennett

Tim Burton

Don Hahn

John August

Peter Burgis

Simon Diggins

Jason Swanscott

Andie Derrick

Glen Gathard

Mark DeSimone

Chris Navarro

Danny Elfman

Mark Solomon

Ronna Kress

Allison Abbate

Peter Sorg

Chris Lebenzon

Chris Gilligan

Rachelle Lambden

Daniel Alderson

Kim Keukeleire

Trey Thomas

Christian De Vita

Danail Kraev

Matias Liebrecht

Kristien Vanden Bussche

Boris Wolf

Jorgen Klubien

Cesar Diaz Melendez

Pete Dodd

Chuck Duke

Jens Jonathan Gulliksen

Sharon Smith

Philip Vallentin

Gabriele Zucchelli

Jody Meredith

Marjolaine Parot

Dean Roberts

Mark Waring

Steve Warne

Padraig Collins

Tim Allen

Derek Frey

Connie Nartonis Thompson

Joan Schneider

Andrew Bonner

Dillon Bennett

Rachael Tate

Leonard Ripps

Christopher Boyes

Bjørn Ole Schroeder

Alice Lister

Steve Browell

Richard Morrison

Tim Ledbury

Anthony Elworthy

Brian Leif Hansen

Barret Oliver

Kev Harwood

Simon Quinn

Alexandra Walker

Tobias Fouracre

Faye Robinson

Michael Semanick

David Slonaker

Julie Hickson

Oliver Tarney

Shelley Duvall

Tom Kemplen

Thomas L. Wilhite

Tim Browning

Jonny Ffinch

Tom Johnson

Jessie Thiele

Daniel Stern

Jeffrey Broom

Lucy Benson

Michael Higham

Toby Farrar

Richard Lake

Stephen Perkins

Dean Wares

Edgardo Simone

Caitlin Well

Dobrin Yanev

Jen Rudin

Michael Fentum

Rick Heinrichs

Jack Stew

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Frankenweenie

Tim Burton Productions

United States of America

English

shyness

stop motion

animal death

animal lover

Good stuff, unmistakably Tim Burton.

<em>Frankenweenie</em> is a solid stop-motion horror film from Disney. Interesting plot, coupled with a suitable cast and untypical animation. It's also in black-and-white, which doesn't hamper things at all - I, in a weird sort of way, kinda forgot it was b/w for vast portions.

Charlie Tahan voices the lead character, Victor Frankenstein. You also have well-known names in Winona Ryder (Elsa), Martin Short (Edward) and Catherine O'Hara (Susan). I also liked Martin Landau as Rzykruski. There's decent humour amongst those characters, too.

Worth a watch, for sure.

CinemaSerf

This time it's the Frankenstein story that gets the Tim Burton treatment delivering us an hybrid of "Edward Scissorhands" (1990) and Karloff's "Frankenstein" (1935) with a little pooch throw in for good measure. It's the eponymous mutt that gets hit by car whilst fetching a baseball hit, surprisingly, out of the park by his young master "Victor". Distraught, the scientifically minded youngster concocts a cunning plan to use the attic windows, some toy seahorses and loads and loads of lightning to bring "Sparky" back from the dead. What now ensues is quite a fun series of escapades as the young man resurrects his friend and tries to keep it a secret from his schoolmates ahead of a looming science fair that causes his friends to try to mimic his skills and create monstrous mayhem en route. The monochrome stop-motion animation (especially their eyes!) and typically fun Danny Elfman score make for an effective comedy-horror and it is hard not to engage with the reincarnated patchwork puppy. Their rather menacing science teacher "Rzykruski" reminded me of Christopher Lee, too. It's a quickly paced and engaging tale with a gentle morality to it - love, loyalty, friendship all feature strongly in a narrative that goes some way to illustrate how, illogically sometimes, people can become attached to their pets. Good fun, this film.

Frankenweenie( 2012)

The electrifying dog is back from beyond the grave

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A review by r96sk

Written by r96sk on Mon Aug 24 2020

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