: Frankenweenie
I didn’t like this nearly as much as I expected I would. I’m a huge Tim Burton fan, and I like quirky animation and bizarre characters, but this felt too tame. It felt like it was trying to hard to be weird and yet it simultaneously worked hard to be normal (probably to avoid scaring off potential ticket-buyers).
It’s certainly not a bad movie in any way. It’s just not that entertaining or different. It’s about a boy whose beloved dog dies and he reanimates the dog with lightning. There was a hint of something different as the dog suffers from the prejudices of the town who don’t want to accept a reanimated dog, but the movie doesn’t go far enough with that theme.
Instead, the film switches over to action as the boy’s school friends learn his secret and reanimate their own dead pets with disastrous results as the pets become huge monsters. (The best is the turtle, Shelly, who becomes a Tyrannosaurus Rex.) The ending is pretty good as the boy and his dog are required to save the day (which endears the townspeople to the resurrected dog), but for the most part things are predictable.
Overall, it’s a good film; fun, quirky, and well-done. From a technical perspective, it’s flawless and quite wonderful. It’s just that the story isn’t very new or different. It feels like it doesn’t live up to its awesome potential. That’s probably just fine for kids, but adults will find it lightweight fare.
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