TIM BURTON CHARACTERS FRANKENWEENIE MOVIE
(Which reminds me: This is really not a movie for little kids. Victor keeps trying to hide Sparky in various ways once the neighborhood kids discover him, they're daring and/or stupid enough to try and pull off the same experiment on their own, with disastrous results. It's loud and thrilling and frightening all at once, but as is the case in the best of Burton's work, the outcome has a fundamental sweetness.īut once the premise is established in the script from frequent Burton collaborator John August ("Corpse Bride," ''Big Fish"), the story doesn't really go anywhere. In Victor's version, he harnesses lightning with the help of every appliance he could grab out of his mom's kitchen, as well as some Christmas lawn decorations, a bicycle and various umbrellas. The big, explosive lab scene takes place in the attic and is straight out of "Frankenstein" - which also happens to be his family's last name in one of countless nods to classics of the genre.
Rzykruski, a fearsome figure with a comically heavy Eastern European accent who is, in actuality, an inspiring, forward-thinking force in his students' lives. Martin Landau, who was so great as Bela Lugosi in Burton's "Ed Wood," plays the teacher, Mr. But then he gets an idea while studying the effects of electricity in science class: He could bring Sparky back to life. Then one day, Sparky runs into the street to chase a ball and gets hit by a car. His next-door neighbor, Elsa Van Helsing (Winona Ryder), the niece of the town's persnickety mayor (also Short), is his somber, kindred spirit. His mom and dad (voiced by Catherine O'Hara and Martin Short, two of the many Burton alumni at work here) encourage him to take part in sports and school activities. Cloud" co-star Charlie Tahan) is a loner: a smart, quiet kid whose only real friend is his bubbly bull terrier, Sparky. Both films are about the powerful bond between a boy and his dog, one that goes on even after death - a heartrending subject, to be sure, but one that Burton infuses with his trademark mix of lively energy and macabre laughs.Įven then, you could see Burton's sympathetic, protective portrayal of an outsider, an affectionate skewering of the sanctity of suburbia and a deep love of monster movies.Īlong those lines, this animated version begins the exact same way as the original: with a 10-year-old boy projecting his latest makeshift horror flick for his parents in the living room. Tim Burton reminds us of why we love Tim Burton with "Frankenweenie," a feature-length version of the 1984 short that revealed early glimmers of the veteran director's darkly humorous style.īeautifully detailed and painstakingly rendered in 3-D, black-and-white, stop-motion animation, "Frankenweenie" is a visual and thematic return to the best Burton has offered in his earliest films, such as "Edward Scissorhands" and "Beetlejuice." And it is a welcome return, given the reheated, unfocused nature of some of his more recent films like "Dark Shadows."īurton has said he'd always intended for "Frankenweenie" to be a full-length, stop-motion-animation feature, but he didn't have the means instead, he made a 30-minute, live-action short featuring Shelley Duvall, Daniel Stern and a young Sofia Coppola (credited as "Domino").
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