A good movie

Since I’m a huge fan of ‘The Nightmare before Christmas’, I was quite eager to check this flick and I had some rather huge expectations before watching it. Eventually, even though I did like it, I was still a little bit disappointed by the whole thing. Of course, the stop motion animation really looked gorgeous once again (it didn’t see it in 3D though) but, even though the story was decent, it was never as fascinating as ‘The Nightmare before Christmas’ was. Seriously, at the end of the day, even thought it was fairly entertaining, I can’t say I really cared about the main character or what she was going through. In my opinion, it was like with ‘ParaNorman’, another supposedly dark animated feature, the makers really want us to believe that the whole thing is really edgy but I wasn’t really convinced, I’m afraid. I mean, with ‘The Nightmare before Christmas’, I was just mesmerized by this demented world and I loved every single one of those weird characters but I never had such a connection with this story. Still, to conclude, even though I think it is slightly overrated, it remains still a very well made animated feature and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10