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Dee Bradley Baker

Jeff Bennett

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Don Hahn

Mark DeSimone

Jason Swanscott

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Peter Burgis

Simon Diggins

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Peter Sorg

Ronna Kress

Chris Lebenzon

Allison Abbate

Mark Solomon

Cesar Diaz Melendez

Chris Gilligan

Chuck Duke

Kristien Vanden Bussche

Jody Meredith

Christian De Vita

Danail Kraev

Matias Liebrecht

Daniel Alderson

Jorgen Klubien

Marjolaine Parot

Kim Keukeleire

Rachelle Lambden

Jens Jonathan Gulliksen

Pete Dodd

Dean Roberts

Boris Wolf

Steve Warne

Mark Waring

Philip Vallentin

Sharon Smith

Gabriele Zucchelli

Trey Thomas

Padraig Collins

Tim Allen

Simon Quinn

Leonard Ripps

Derek Frey

Anthony Elworthy

Julie Hickson

Barret Oliver

Jonny Ffinch

Stephen Perkins

Tim Browning

Alexandra Walker

Tom Johnson

Tim Ledbury

Andrew Bonner

Rachael Tate

David Slonaker

Kev Harwood

Tobias Fouracre

Toby Farrar

Richard Lake

Lucy Benson

Jessie Thiele

Dean Wares

Alice Lister

Faye Robinson

Steve Browell

Michael Higham

Bjørn Ole Schroeder

Edgardo Simone

Daniel Stern

Thomas L. Wilhite

Tom Kemplen

Oliver Tarney

Michael Semanick

Brian Leif Hansen

Michael Fentum

Shelley Duvall

Caitlin Well

Dillon Bennett

Richard Morrison

Joan Schneider

Jeffrey Broom

Christopher Boyes

Connie Nartonis Thompson

Dobrin Yanev

Jen Rudin

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.

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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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