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Tim burton characters pumpkin2/28/2024 I think this movie is more appropriate for kids over 10. That being said, I would never, ever recommend it for children who are only 7 years old. Its spooky-but-humanized ghouls made the film. Unlike most Disney features of the era, Nightmare was darker, more stylized, and complex. As an adult, I think that the idea is very original, and there is some art to the movie and it's very unique. Tim Burton and Henry Selick’s enduring Disney masterpiece, The Nightmare Before Christmas, has enjoyed a loyal, ever-growing audience for more than 25 years. This movie uses very dark humor and has pretty dark, disturbing characters in it. The first 5 minutes of the movie are pretty disturbing, and my daughter covered her eyes (without me prompting) when she was watching it. Particularly, the scene where Boogie Man turns into a sack full of disgusting warms crawling everywhere was very disturbing to her (and to me). Even my daughter said after watching it that it was scary and some scenes she really didn't like. ![]() But this time the reviewers weren't exaggerating. I read some of the reviews saying that it was scary and had some questionable scenes, but I honestly thought they were exaggerating since I found few other movies that weren't rated so highly on this site quite pleasant to watch with my child. I told her she can watch it when she is 8, and when she turned 8 she reminded me about this, so I let her watch it. ![]() My daughter insisted on watching this movie for months. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails. But stereotypes and creepiness aside, the film has positive messages about gratitude and valuing what you already have - as well as catchy songs and extremely memorable visuals. Selick and head storyboard artist Joseph Ranft primarily worked from a combination of Tim Burton’s expressive ink, watercolour, and graphite character sketches, and the surreal illustrations of Dr Seuss’ children’s picturebooks (Bendazzi) to develop Nightmare’s on-screen look. The film also uses the "disabled villain" clich é, and the voice cast is almost entirely White. She's kind and helpful but falls into gender stereotypes, sacrificing herself to support the male lead and becoming a damsel in distress. ![]() Characters kiss, and a main character, Sally ( Catherine O'Hara), pines after the charming Jack ( Chris Sarandon). Younger kids who aren't old enough to distinguish fantasy from real life (or those prone to nightmares) might steer clear. ![]() That said, it does have scares: Characters take off their own heads and limbs, and there are skeletons, demons, zombies, worms, etc., as well as a very creepy villain named Oogie Boogie (voiced by Ken Page). This Jack Skellington resembled more a voodoo doll than a skeleton, with his head having stitches on the side, arrows going through it from top to bottom, and his eyes hanging from the sockets.Parents need to know that The Nightmare Before Christmas is an offbeat stop-motion-animated movie that's one of the greatest family films for all ages. This version can also be seen in the first two minutes of Vincent, but it’s seen more clearly during the aforementioned scene. Some of these appear briefly to better give the idea of Vincent being haunted, and among them is an early design of Jack Skellington. In the final minutes of Vincent, the boy is tormented in his make-believe world by ghosts and other creatures. Vincent is also obsessed with the works of Edgar Allan Poe, which inspire delusions that he’s a tortured artist and mad scientist. Narrated by Vincent Price, Vincent tells the story of seven-year-old Vincent Malloy, who idolizes Price and experiments on his dog, Abercrombie, to create a ravenous zombie dog. Even as the focal character, aside from knowing hes the Pumpkin King and the visible fact that he feels unfulfilled by the role, Jack isnt someone the audience gets to know incredibly well. In 1982, while working at Walt Disney Productions, Tim Burton made a black-and-white stop-motion short film titled Vincent. Jack Skellington’s first appearance has been widely believed to have been in Beetlejuice, and while he does make a quick cameo appearance next to the famous bio-exorcist, his debut was actually in the short film Vincent.
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