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It really was an unusual film to begin with because of the extremely bizzare animation and also of the very creepy characters. Jack Skellington is a character that nobody has ever seen before. This film was really beautiful and was quite scary aswell because as I said it is very weird and unusual. When I first saw The Nightmare Before Christmas when I was a little kid, it scared me because is was a dark coloured film and also I had never seen any 3D animated film. This film was released before Toy Story so this film was the first ever 3D animated film. The character Oogie Boogie used to scare me a lot because he was like a ghost and was really evil. Also, I found a lot of the dead people quite creepy to start with because of the ugliness of the characters and also because of the way the characters body parts were missing and could see like Sallys arms and legs came apart, Jack could pull his own head off and Dr. Finkelstein could pick off bits of his own brain and can touch it too. After watching about 3 years after watching it first time, I absolutely loved it as I still do right now.
The voice acting was superb from Chris Sarandon because he made us all feel sorry for Jack and yet made us not feel sorry for Jack because he was wrecking a world tradition that everybody loves. Music composer Danny Elfmans singing voice for Jack was simply amazing. His voice is a really good talent for both music and for singing too. I liked Catherine O Hara in this film too because she made Sally in my opinion the most powerful character in the whole film. This film shows true colour of what is more important in this world: Halloween or Christmas.
This film was really well directed by Henry Selick but would have been even better if Tim Burton himself directed it. But Tim Burton did most of this film. He produced it, thought of the story and all the characters too but he didnt write this film. The screenplay was really good because there were a lot of lines that mixed between Halloween and Christmas which was really great and was the whole point of the story.
This film is my 4th favourite Tim Burton film after Edward Scissorhands, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street and Big Fish but I do still love this film a lot. This is just a delight to watch around Halloween and around Christmas. It is a very unusual family film but it has the moving abilities to have its rightful place as a beautiful family film for everyone to enjoy. Masterpiece!! Without a doubt one of most fun and eventful animated films of all time.
