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

Chris Navarro

Peter Burgis

Simon Diggins

Mark DeSimone

Jason Swanscott

Glen Gathard

Andie Derrick

Danny Elfman

Peter Sorg

Ronna Kress

Chris Lebenzon

Mark Solomon

Allison Abbate

Daniel Alderson

Kristien Vanden Bussche

Christian De Vita

Cesar Diaz Melendez

Pete Dodd

Chuck Duke

Chris Gilligan

Jens Jonathan Gulliksen

Kim Keukeleire

Jorgen Klubien

Danail Kraev

Rachelle Lambden

Matias Liebrecht

Jody Meredith

Marjolaine Parot

Dean Roberts

Sharon Smith

Trey Thomas

Philip Vallentin

Mark Waring

Steve Warne

Boris Wolf

Gabriele Zucchelli

Padraig Collins

Tim Allen

Leonard Ripps

Derek Frey

Connie Nartonis Thompson

Simon Quinn

Joan Schneider

Kev Harwood

Tim Ledbury

Anthony Elworthy

Tobias Fouracre

Brian Leif Hansen

Dobrin Yanev

Tim Browning

Alexandra Walker

Toby Farrar

Andrew Bonner

Alice Lister

Faye Robinson

Richard Lake

Jen Rudin

Caitlin Well

Jeffrey Broom

Jonny Ffinch

Stephen Perkins

Tom Kemplen

Lucy Benson

Jessie Thiele

Oliver Tarney

Michael Semanick

Tom Johnson

Christopher Boyes

Bjørn Ole Schroeder

Michael Fentum

Dillon Bennett

Steve Browell

Rachael Tate

Richard Morrison

Dean Wares

Michael Higham

Edgardo Simone

David Slonaker

Julie Hickson

Barret Oliver

Shelley Duvall

Daniel Stern

Thomas L. Wilhite

Rick Heinrichs

Jack Stew

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Family

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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