Movie Review: The Nightmare Before Christmas As the director, Tim Burton, takes us into a world of unrecognizable and scary landscapes in the Nightmare Before Christmas. Everything the audience takes comfort in knowing, as far as realism goes, Burton has morphed into something haunting and a little scary. A true musical fairy tale. Even Santa Claus himself is bit haunting and unrecognizable. If it was not for his red and white suit, it would be difficult to spot the jolly old man himself. What sets Nightmare Before Christmas apart, is that they are puppet like figurines, filmed in stop- motion, instead of your classical drawn motion picture. Burton are able to make the figures come alive on the screen and his landscape is vibrant and three dimensional, which gives it more dimension than …show more content…
The tunes are endearing and captivating. The storyline of Nightmare before Christmas is based upon a Poem Tim Burton wrote, and is straightforward, having more of the classic old school horror moving feeling to it, rather than the fairy tale theme. Tim Burton is able to create Jack, a character, a true misfit that is trying his hardest to do well in this world, but it is difficult for others to understand his intentions. Jack has all the emotions of a real human being, but he has a hard time understanding them himself. The emotions become riddle like to himself and the audience. The Nightmare Before Christmas might not speak to us the way the traditional Disney fairytale do, but it surely hits the nail on the head as it deals with the emotions of being misjudged as person. The audience is captivated by Mr. Burton’s one of a kind daunting figurines, the dull landscapes of Halloweentown and the contrasts of the other holiday towns, each and every of them serving its purpose of having its own “king” whether it be The Pumpkin King, The Easter Bunny or Santa Clause