A good movie

To be honest,  considering the recent dubious track-record of the once great Tim Burton,  I had my doubts before watching this flick. I mean,  the guy is apparently struggling so much to bring up something fresh and new that the only thing he can come up with is basically recycling his own work which is all rather sad in my opinion. Anyway,  after all, I have to admit that it was still a fairly enjoyable stop-motion feature but I can’t say that it really impressed me though. Indeed, I'll give you that, it was very well made and it was visually very neat, as expected from this director. However,  I really had a hard time to care about the story. Indeed, the original version which was made more than 30 years old was a cute little story but not much more than that and the short format was perfect for this material. For this new version, they had to expand it somehow so they came up with this science fair idea which was rather underwhelming. Eventually,  it all end up with a bunch of kids reproducing the experiment on their own creating some weird monsters resulting in a big climax which never grabbed me. To conclude, even though it was again another half-baked project for Burton, I still enjoyed most of it and I think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre. 

7/10