Tim's Film Reviews

Frankenweenie is a fun and beautiful homage to classic monster movies like Frankenstein but more aimed for kids. This film proves that Tim Burton can still make great films like ‘A Nightmare Before Christmas’ and ‘Beetle Juice’.  The story is clever and unique but can easily connect to its audience with an understanding of dealing with loss. The characters where weird and crazy as with most Burton creations and he clearly had a lot of fun mixing in all of those stereotypical monster movie themes and he is probably the best person to do it, Dr Frankenstein and Igor being the most prominent . It takes some confidence to make a kids film in black and white and although it may have cost them some box office money I think it really works to honour the sources it’s based off.

Mr. Rzykruski: “They like what science gives them but not the questions no, not the questions the science asks.”

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