Originally Posted By Dabob2 Quite enjoyed it. Not earth-shattering, but very enjoyable, particularly if you know the classic monster movies being spoofed.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros That's good to hear. I watched the original featurette a couple years ago and just rembmember being overwhelmingly apathetic about it. I'm just kind of over Tim Burton's work, so I won't go out of my way to see Frankenweenie, but it's nice to hear that it's fun
Originally Posted By DyGDisney I thought it was okay, the rest of my family liked it though. I do have to say it's scary for little kids. The little girl behind us starting crying and her dad had to take her out.
Originally Posted By mawnck Very nicely done, visually speaking, but the story was meh. It was too Disney-fied to get seriously creepy, and the supporting cast was overly one-note. And like Monsters Vs. Aliens before it, it was a guaranteed pleaser for the horror movie buffs, but a bit of a letdown for the rest of us who weren't in on the jokes. It also showed the effects of too much focus-grouping, in the form of some flagrant foreshadowing that they completely forgot to include the payoff for.
Originally Posted By brotherdave I guess Frankenweenie opened to rather disappointing business with just over $11 million dollars last weekend. Too bad. It looked very well done. Perhaps kids aren't into black and white animation?
Originally Posted By Manfried I saw the original short years ago. Quite funny. Unfortunately the new version is the short expanded with nothing really new. I kind of thought he would have used the short as a springboard for something better. But no, it is just an expanded telling of a story that deserved to be a short.
Originally Posted By Bellella I just saw it a couple of days ago. The total number of people in the theater was three, so my mom, sister and I had a private showing. Of course, this was on a weekday afternoon. I found the movie kind of disappointing. It wasn't very funny, and quite gruesome. Exploding animals? Zombie sea-monkeys? Mutant bat/cats? Not working. I prefer the live-action short made back in the day. Still, it is quite amazing that people still make stop-motion animated films nowadays.
Originally Posted By EighthDwarf Anyone else think about "Pet Sematary" while watching this?? Needless to say I found the story unoriginal. But my son wanted me to go with him to see it so I didn't totally hate it.
