The Nightmare Before Christmas - Nostalgia Critic

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christmas merchandise sells like mad people love to dress up as the characters even the honda mansion is given a makeover in fall and winter to reflect the characters and story it also started one of my favorite fads of stop-motion kids movies that are wonderfully more dark and twisted than most kids movies are and they're given a free pass by parents because well they remember it being fun when the nightmare before christmas did it based on tim burton's short story of the same name it takes honestly a very complicated and abstract idea and makes it surprisingly simple to follow and enjoy so what is it about this holiday film that becomes more and more popular where other holiday films seem to fade into the crowd well we're finally gonna watch it from beginning to end to find out this is halloween or is it christmas it's clearly halloween this is tim burton's the nightmare before christmas first off let's address the biggest misconception this is not a tim burton directed movie henry selick who would direct another stop-motion masterpiece with coraline is the man who called the shots but the studio insisted tim burton's name had more of a draw and seeing how his spiraled fingerprints are all over it i think that's fair it should also be pointed out that the opening narration is by santa played by edward ivory but in the soundtrack it's patrick stewart it was a long time ago longer now than it seems was a long time ago longer now than it seems alex stewart's fine but it does go on a little too long including a closing narration about jack and sally having skeleton babies with four or five skeleton children at hand playing strange little tunes in their xylophone band i don't know the idea of them literally boning it is just not something i want to think of we opened in the land of halloweentown with i think we can all agree the most memorable song in the movie though i always saw it as a warped version of the home alone theme there's no denying both this song and intro are amazing when i saw this on the big screen it blew my mind the visuals were so creative and matched the music perfectly there's so many things to admire the creative camera angles which were rarely seen in stop motion then the fact that they didn't cut out the strings for the bats which makes you feel more authentic and i especially love how one of the random characters is just the devil he's not the ruler he's not even a major character he's just one of the residents this place is hardcore when the [ __ ] devil is just a dude walking around town we're introduced to the pumpkin king jack skellington played by chris man we'll get to the end of bed who just finished up scaring the real world for halloween but a rag doll named sally played by catherine o'hara is being called back by her inventor dr finkelstein played by william hickey come back here you fool me i didn't make you to beat my head i made you too wait can't help but feel tired doing the same thing every year and sings about his frustration [Music] so jack's singing voices composer and songwriter danny elfman but his speaking voice is chris sarandon and surprisingly there's several conflicting reasons as to why elfman was always going to be the singing voice as he did demos for all the songs and everyone agreed he just sounded great as jack some reports say elfman didn't want to act as he was too busy with everything else in fact he wrote so many songs writers kept adding characters and plot threads to work them in some even saying the film really should have been called danny elfman's the nightmare before christmas other reports say his singing was love but is acting not as much so they passed on him as an actor possibly resulting in a split burton and elfman had for a short period of time both reasons are odd as elfman does act as other characters in the movie whatever the reason both do a great job matching each other's energy and passion perfectly christmas time is buzzing in my skull call a town meeting and i'll tell everyone all about it after he sings his woes sally finds she'd give her right arm to get her right arm i made you with my own hands you can make other creations something a lot of people pick up is that the dialogue in this film is not quite like other disney movies keep in mind this is just around the time aladdin came out an animation in general was trying to hit both adults and children this dialogue is not really trying to do that it's trying to be simple in the hopes of being more timeless like the rankin bass specials and it works but it does throw a lot of people off there's no pop cultural references in jokes or hidden adult humor it's a very basic what you hear is what you get which sometimes results in lines that don't always sound the most natural curiosity killed the cat you know i know that was a normal thing we just said but that's also part of the charm for such a strange idea with strange looking characters it's easily digestible like this concept of trees holding different holidays sounds feasible after watching this but imagine explaining it in a way that both adults and kids could follow easily it's probably trickier than you think some of these concepts and ideas are so imaginative a simpler way of telling them makes the most sense speaking of which jack is sucked into christmas town and is blown away by what he sees what's this in here they've got a little tree how queer well we found the line every kid's gonna snicker out whenever they sing it secure inside their dream land and we found the out of context picture that'll get me snickering whenever i see it after seeing the creepiest santa shadow sally poisons her inventor again by sneaking harry potter classes into his soup frog's breath overpower any odor after she tricks him into drinking it and giving him just assuming a popular gift if not get on that internet jack returns home and calls a town meeting to explain the strange land he discovered even death is invited between him and the devil christ i expect to see christ in the background next this is a thing called a present the whole thing starts with a box no that gift is from 2006 it's a dick in a box joke but a splendid idea this christmas sounds fun though they all seem excited they don't seem to get what makes christmas so special and neither does jack for that matter who obsesses over what it's all about there's got to be a logical way to explain this christmas thing doesn't he know if you turn on even one netflix christmas rom-com you'll be even more confused interesting reaction but what does it mean what does any of this have to do with jesus sally goes to visit jack but first has to figure out how to get down from her tower i give five more years until people call that problematic she sends jack a gift basket of sorts and has a vision that christmas is going to be a disaster yeah she's psychic now on the one hand i like that she isn't just a sourpuss like something has to convince her that christmas is gonna go wrong but it comes right out of nowhere it's vague exactly what it is whether it's the universe giving her a sign or if she always had the power to predict the future as it never happened before and doesn't happen later i always thought it'd be cool if they gave a hint this was a thing like maybe she used the ability to find the deadly nightshade or later she looks at the flower and a heart appears foreshadowing that jack was about to approach her but nope this is it she's just walt from lost psychic when you need it because you need it of course i bend it close to see the answer is right in front of me jack finally figures christmas out sorta when he discovers he can bring his own unique spin to it and that's exactly what i'll do i'll start it in november no october hell september's not doing anything for lazy ass actually with combining holidays this film really was ahead of its time [Applause] [Music] hmm what could i do for this week's 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been worn to kirk cameron his vision of christmas is going to be a disaster it was about your christmas there was smoke and fire that's not my christmas mine's more plagie he doesn't listen to her and everybody sings about how amazing their christmas is going to be these warped gifts still crack me up i especially love how i think one of them is the max shrek logo from batman returns yeah did this burton property sell enough toys for you won't they be impressed i am a genius that's literally how great proops talks before every taping of who's lying just as jack gets christmas ready santa is abducted and brought to him after he's taken away sally sees the scientist has literally made a new lady friend for himself we have conversations worth having that part of my brain stopped me from peeing and caring the kids give santa to oogie boogie played by kem page who fun fact is the big lipped alligator from all dogs go to heaven how does this guy get tie cast as musical green monsters who sing before they eat people because i'm a gambling boogie man although i don't play fan the boogie song is a good change of pace as most of the color in the movie is in christmas town so it's pretty nice to get a scene that's still dark but has bright vibrant colors as well i'm going to do my stuff what are you going to do i'm going to do the best i can okay that's a different christmas movie right there jack gets ready to head out as the literal two-faced mare played by glenn shattucks oversees the flight sally causes fog to block everyone's view but as we saw before zero's nose can light up and leave the way see out of nowhere sally psychic subplot the dog figured it out sense there's something in the wind that's not making things better i feel like most people agree that sally's song is the weakest of the musical numbers which is a shame because it's not really a bad song it's just slow sung a little awkward and grinds the film to a halt all the momentum of a few seconds ago is put on hold for sally singing how we already know she feels on the other hand though this is the closest we have to a love song and again there is something cool that's about how the person she loves will seemingly never love her back [Music] if there's an opportunity to creatively depress children i'm kind of all for it the song doesn't last long though and we're given some of the most entertaining stuff in the movie jack's terrifying christmas presents the only thing funnier than the gifts is jack's blind optimism that everyone is loving them you're welcome one and all if you survive give me five stars on yelp desperate to fix things sally tries to break in and free santa unexplained leg is the best kind of leg what you trying to make a dupe out of me don't you know the foot is all i require oogie captures them both meanwhile the army locates jack and shoots him down like a true politician the mayor says he knew the bad idea he said was a good idea was a bad idea i knew this christmas thing was a bad idea i'm gonna go check out kwanzaa land jack survives though and sings all about the misery he caused why does nothing ever turn out like it should like wreck it ralph i have to admire a movie where the message doesn't follow your dreams but rather cope bored with your life well you could be dead little blessings you piece of [ __ ] i am the pumpkin king he announces he's back as the pumpkin king but realizes he has to save santa in order to put things right [Music] hello oogie how the hell did you do that i mean the doll maybe but the red guy's like raiders of the lost ark ball this leads to in all honesty a pretty pointless climax well come on man again if oogie was built up as the villain earlier maybe this could work and even then that's a big maybe i feel like this is a movie that doesn't really need a villain but he's a guy introduced in the third act there's not much of a rivalry between him and jack and like sally's song everything kind of comes to a halt for it this just doesn't feel like a story where the lead dodge is a villain's death traps that's more of a comic book feel where this had more of a fairy tale vibe but again it is creative and leads to a pretty fun death [Music] you've scene don't look at my dung beetles i'll admit santa stomping out the last bug is pretty funny but he has work to do as he restores christmas back to normal and jack returns home santa even brings a little bit of christmas to halloween again as if that isn't being done careful my precious jewel well somebody got an idea watching season one of loki jack and sally finally confess their love for each other and thank god they kiss far away because i don't want to think of the mechanics of doll lips kissing skeleton teeth and that was the nightmare before christmas i can't pretend it's absolutely flawless but it's pretty close [Music] it does take a certain mindset to enjoy it certainly embracing simplicity more than complexity but that doesn't mean it isn't astoundingly imaginative i think it's particularly the visuals and concept that really makes it timeless as anyone can watch this and follow what's going on even if there was no dialogue and be blown away by what they're looking at the songs are also very refreshing not just for how many there are eleven in case you're wondering at a time when most disney films had half that but they also moved the story forward and helped the characters express what they're feeling it never feels like something that was written to also have a hit on the radio or anything even though you don't hear it on the radio though people still hum these songs all the time and remember these characters the main reason being they're very simple but likable though i can't say it's for everyone it's proven over the years that it is for a lot of people and i can happily say i am definitely one of those in that twisted mix i'm the nostalgia critic in this darjeeling has just begun [Music] how queer hey doug walker 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Length: 23min 4sec (1384 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 06 2021