Better Late Then Never

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Frankenweenie is a movie starring Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, and Martin Short. When a boy's beloved dog passes away suddenly, he attempts to bring the animal back to life through a powerful science experiment. I was very disappointed with 'Frankenweenie' especially after the very good short 80's short that Burton had made but unfortunately this film grows a bit way too much the storyline and even brings some giant lizard/turtle or whatever that wasn't even needed and then some stupid friend too and just makes the film confusing. (5/10)

Favourite movie-quote - "Arf! Arf! Arf!...." Frankenweenie is an "electrifying" tale of a boy and his dog. It tells the gruesome, little story of young Victor Frankenstein who conducts a daring and amazing scientific experiment in hopes of bringing his beloved dog, Sparky, back to life.With the successful re-animation of Sparky, Victor soon finds that he (as well as many others) must now face some unforeseen and monstrous consequences.All-in-all, Frankenweenie certainly had its fair share of flaws, but, just the same, I really hadn't expected to enjoy this film as much as I did.Appropriately filmed in b&w - Thank goodness that this picture didn't contain any musical numbers.

I saw this movie in the theater back in 2012 and I thought it was just AWFUL. I have never seen the original 80's film with Shelley Duvall, but whatever. This movie is still terrible. There are tons of problems with it; let's dive right into them, shall we? First of all, I think that black-and-white does fit for this kind of movie, which is obviously trying to look like Frankenstein (1931) or some other monster movie from around that time. But the problem with that (especially if you're watching on a big screen in the dark) is that the lights are occasionally too bright. There are some flashing lights in the film and I remember I thought I was gonna be blinded sitting in that theater.Second, the character design (and the characters themselves) are just plain bad. We have a hunchback kid who can't be not smiling even when he's not happy, two Asian people who show little feeling, a creepy girl with an old lady motif who carries her cat around all the time, and a goth chick. The facial expressions are never appropriate for how a character is meant to feel.It should also be said that I am an animal lover. I love cats and dogs alike (preferably cats). This movie, however, should not be seen by animal lovers. PETA would be displeased. I assumed the film would start with the dog already dead, but we have to actually build up to its death, which is just unbearable. Later, we see a cat transform (for no reason) into a bat creature, and it doesn't change back. That whole thing just makes me sad and angry. Not only is all of what I just mentioned too scary for little kids, but it's also emotionally scarring for animal lovers like I said!I remember seeing The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) prior to this movie and I didn't like it. This movie makes Nightmare look like a masterpiece. At least they didn't abuse animals in a way that thought it was being funny and wasn't, and that movie tried to be kid-friendly. Frankenweenie does not succeed in any of that. Please, for the love of all animals, stay away from this awful movie, and if your pets are alive and well, be thankful for that.

This is an absolute pastiche copied up from no matter how many films and books, you won't be able to trace them all from Stephen King to Mary Shelly, to you know whom better than I. But it is a festive big laughing competition against all basic beliefs of parents about the education of their darling children, especially when they, the parents, are at work and the children at home and the latter understood myriads of years ago how to by-pass the "security" on the TV and computer. They are able hours on top of hours to view all the nasty shows they can find and imagine.For them parents science like technology are dirty words and unbearable subjects that have to be kept away from the children's ears and from the dinner table, when there is a family dinner, once every blue moon. For them parents a science fair, festival, competition, fest or carnival only has one aim and goal: to learn how to be badder than bad and produce both Viagra and ecstasy. You children know the type of pills your parents or you parents are buying on the Internet. Is it from Amazon or from Alibaba? Maybe only from the corner store, well the chap that is standing ,in front of the corner store. How old is he by the way?This farce is absolutely successful and in black and white, or something close, which is better than you could have imagine. Don't you play with electricity, Benjamin Franklin would say. You may burn your fingers and roast your tonsils. When I say your tonsils you know what I mean. Of course the film has no depth whatsoever and does not pretend to have any. The only point is that it is funny ah ah and nothing else. Enjoy it and play with death as if it were your nightmare friend in the science class of your dear high school. And do not forget the science teacher is necessarily a bomb maker, a heroin refiner, a mental pervert, a serial killer and eventually a religious fundamentalist.Have a good day with Walt DisneyDr Jacques COULARDEAU