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Subscribe to weekly newsletter » times & tickets in theaters Fandango Search movie The American Scream showtimes and buy Chasing Mavericks tickets. Cloud Atlas Keep the Lights On Frankenweenie The Other Son about us Pusher BY ROGER EBERT / October 3, 2012 The Sessions About the site » more current releases » In 1984, Tim Burton Site FAQs » launched his career with a one-minute movie reviews live-action short named cast & credits Contact us » "Frankenweenie," and now still playing he returns to that material With the voices of: Email the Movie for the new Victor Charlie Tahan Answer Man » "Frankenweenie," a stop- Dad Martin Short About Cherry Alex Cross motion, black-and-white Mom Catherine O’Hara animated comedy inspired Alps Mr. Rzykruski Martin Landau The Ambassador by "The Bride of on sale now Elsa Winona Ryder The American Scream " and Arbitrage countless other classic Walt Disney Pictures presents a Argo horror in which directed by Tim Burton. Written by The Awakening science runs amok. John August, based on a script by The Babymakers Beloved Lenny Ripps and an original idea by The story takes place in a Bill W. familiar Burtonesque world Burton. Running time: 87 minutes. The Bourne Legacy of characters with balloon Rated PG (for thematic elements, The Campaign heads, saucer eyes and scary images and action). Celeste and Jesse Forever pretzel limbs. Seeing them Chasing Mavericks Buy now » in b&w only underlines their Chicken with Plums grotesquerie, and indeed Cloud Atlas the whole story benefits Compliance from the absence of color, Cosmopolis The Curators of Dixon School because this is a stark Printer-friendly » Detropia world without many E-mail this to a friend » Easy Money soothing tones. Burton uses End of Watch a stop-motion animation Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare method employing puppets, For a Good Time Call... Buy now » and I learn from Variety that For Ellen he employed "about 33 animators working to produce five seconds of Frankenweenie film per week apiece." Amazing that such a lively film took such Fred Won't Move Out laborious piecework. Head Games Hello I Must Be Going The story involves young (voice of Charlie Hit and Run Tahan) and his dog Sparky, who is not nearly as smart as Uggie the Hope Springs dog in "The Artist." Sparky is one of those dogs who is way too The House I Live In How to Survive a Plague affectionate and eager to please, but Victor loves him and is Keep the Lights On heartbroken when Sparky runs into the street and is blindsided by a Buy now » Killer Joe car. Victor buries his poor dead mutt under a grim tombstone in one Kumare of those horror movie cemeteries where you imagine the flowers Lawless would be in b&w even if the movie wasn't. would be in b&w even if the movie wasn't. Liberal Arts Victor's science teacher is Mr. Rzykruski (Martin Landau) who looks Little White Lies and sounds like an elongated Vincent Price. If you wonder how his Looper voice can sound elongated, apply here. The next day at school he The Master puts his students to work applying electrical charges to the nerves of Middle of Nowhere Nobody Else But You dead frogs, which makes their legs twitch. This brought back strong Now, Forager: A Film About Love and Fungi memories of my own frog dissections. When you make a list of things The Odd Life of Timothy Green you learned in school and have never needed to use since, don't Buy now » Oslo, August 31 forget the dead frogs. The Other Son The Paperboy Victor is a science-crazy kid with a weird laboratory up in the attic, The Perks of Being a Wallflower which seems two times larger than the suburban house he shares Pitch Perfect with his parents (Catherine O'Hara and Martin Short). The frogs The Possession inspire him to return to the cemetery and smuggle poor Sparky into Premium Rush the attic — where, yes, after a few stitches and patches, Victor is able Pusher to reanimate him with a timely lightning bolt. It must be said that the The Queen of Versailles newly energized Sparky has much the same manic personality as the Red Hook Summer Robot and Frank Buy now » dog in the original version, although like your cellphone, he Samsara sometimes needs to be recharged. His tail or an ear flies off when he Searching for Sugar Man gets too eager, but otherwise he holds up pretty well. The Sessions Seven Psychopaths Victor becomes obsessed with hiding the resurrected dog from his Simon and the Oaks parents. When you wonder why some kids are bored in the suburbs, A Simple Life it may be because of the suffocating effect of parents like Mr. and Sinister Mrs. Frankenstein. Given that they've had to live with that name, no Sleepwalk with Me doubt they're not eager to have it known that Victor has animated his Smashed dog — especially not since he used lightning bolts just as in the Snowman's Land Buy now » creation of the Bride of Frankenstein. It's the sort of thing your Sparkle neighbors get weird about. Taken 2 Total Recall Word gets out, however, and soon all the little brats in Victor's class Trouble with the Curve 2 Days in New York are applying high-voltage juice to their own dead animals, and even a Unforgiveable seahorse. This leads to events at a town parade equal to anything V/H/S you've seen in a Japanese monster movie. The Well-Digger's Daughter Why Stop Now This isn't one of Burton's best, but it has zealous energy. It might Won't Back Down Buy now» have been too macabre for kids in past, but kids these days, they've The Words seen it all, and the charm of a boy and his dog retains its appeal. I You've Been Trumped only hope that young Victor doesn't let Sparky lie out in the sun for more current releases » too long. on

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