The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Nightmare Before Christmas (also known as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas) is a 1993 American stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy film directed by Henry Selick and produced and conceived by Tim Burton. The film premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 9, 1993, and was given a limited release on October 13, 1993, before its wide theatrical release on October 29, 1993.

Plot
The film follows the misadventures of Jack Skellington, Halloween Town's beloved pumpkin king, who has become bored with the same annual routine of frightening people in the "real world." When Jack accidentally stumbles on Christmas Town, all bright colors and warm spirits, he gets a new lease on life -- he plots to bring Christmas under his control by kidnapping Santa Claus and taking over the role. But Jack soon discovers even the best-laid plans of mice and skeleton men can go seriously awry.

Why It's Spook-tacular!

 * 1) It was the very first full-length theatrically released Disney movie to be entirely stop-motion animated, which is the purest form of the stop-motion Disney animation as well as stop-motion film. This would started the most important trend of stop-motion animation that were also released in theaters.
 * 2) Perfect musical score by Danny Elfman, who composed music for The Simpsons and season 11 of My Life.
 * 3) The idea of a story about a group of horror stuff stealing Christmas is a very interesting idea.
 * 4) Catchy and memorable songs, such as This is Halloween, What's This? and I'm the Oogie Boogie Man!.
 * 5) *"Making Christmas" was the film's very silly song.
 * 6) Brilliant stop-motion animation.
 * 7) *The hand-drawn animation for the ghosts are very smooth.
 * 8) Very funny-looking character designs.
 * 9) Despite being originally released under Disney's Touchstone Pictures (as its only fully-animated film) banner in 1993, it was one of Disney's darker-toned family films, due to the PG rating, the other is Who Framed Roger Rabbit?.
 * 10) Great humor, such as when Lock, Shock and Barrel mistaken the Easter Bunny for Santa Claus and Jack scares them away.
 * 11) *Also, the black comedy humor is terrifyingly funny.
 * 12) Great, hilarious, magical mix between Halloween horror and Christmas jolliness, which is a creative idea for a movie, thanks the magic of both of the Walt Disney studios and Tim Burton.
 * 13) The 2006 3D re-release is very good.
 * 14) Most of their dubs are extremely far superior and decent such as, Latin Spanish (Jack, Sally, Mayor, Oogie Boogie, etc...) European Spanish (Jack, Sally, Dr. Finkelstein, Oogie Boogie, Santa Claus) Brazilian Portuguese [2003 version] (Jack, Sally, Mayor, Santa Claus, etc.) German (Jack, Sally, Mayor, Dr. Finkelstein etc.) French, Russian, Italian and Polish (Jack, Sally, Oogie Boogie, The Citizens of Halloween Town)
 * 15) Excellent directing of Henry Selick.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Lock, Shock, and Barrel can be a bit annoying at times.
 * 2) While Oogie Boogie is an awesome twist-villain, we never understand or even know his motives unlike all of the other Disney villains.
 * 3) The film is a bit too short when compared to later stop motion films, only clocking at a run time of 76 minutes which isn't a lot and is more acceptable for a Direct to DVD film. However, since this doesn't affect the film's quality overall, it can be understood if you look at the film's origins for productions.

Reception
The Nightmare Before Christmas has since gone on to receive widespread critical acclaim, with critics and audiences praising the originality and creativity on the visual and storytelling elements, soundtrack, characters and innovating use of stop-motion animation (particularly most of the effects). On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 95%, based on 95 reviews, with an average rating of 8.27/10. The site's consensus reads, "The Nightmare Before Christmas is a stunningly original and visually delightful work of stop-motion animation.". On Metacritic the film has a score of 82 out of 100, based on 30 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade B+ on scale of A+ to F.

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Trivia

 * The film was originally going to be released by Walt Disney Pictures and be part of the Walt Disney Feature Animation lineup, but Disney decided to release the film under its adult film label Touchstone Pictures because the studio thought the film would be "too dark and scary for kids," Selick remembered. "Their biggest fear, and why it was kind of a stepchild project, [was] they were afraid of their core audience hating the film and not coming." To convey Burton's involvement and attract a wider audience, Disney marketed the film as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. Burton explained that,"…it turned more into more of a brand-name thing, it turned into something else, which I'm not quite sure about."
 * It was later reissued under the Walt Disney Pictures label and re-released on October 20, 2006, with conversion to Disney Digital 3-D.
 * The Nightmare Before Christmas is also a prominent Disney film in Japan instead of the cult-classic, Touchstone production in its home country, where it is usually presented as a Tim Burton film instead. Because of the movie's massive fanbase in Japan, Halloween Town is a recurring world in the Kingdom Hearts series. Its presence in Kingdom Hearts has actually made this come full circle with western fans of KH knowing about TNBC through the game.
 * The Japanese are well-aware of the movie's status in the United States, and the Japanese arm of Square (this was pre-merger) was rather surprised that the American arm wanted to promote the Halloween Town levels here, not realizing it would go over well in part because the American fandom for the movie overlaps well with video gaming fandom. Also, American Kirby Is Hardcore came into effect.
 * The Nightmare Before Christmas merchandise seem to be huge hits in many South East Asian countries such as Malaysia, where everything from handbags to cell phone cases feature Jack Skellington.