At Springfield General Hospital, Krusty tries to bond with his daughter but finds out that she is Christian and wants to celebrate Christmas. However, the Strandbeest goes wild due to the stronger winds and tramples Krusty that was skating with Sophie. Meanwhile, a pagan festival is held in town, with the Simpson family and the others attending, where Theo Jansen shows his feature attraction, the Strandbeest, wind-powered. Meanwhile, Reverend Lovejoy seeks converts after church attendance plummets, and Maggie is haunted by a spooky Christmas toy.Īt the First Church of Springfield, very few people are present at Reverend Lovejoy's service at the fourth Sunday of Advent, and Helen calls him afterwards to meet a "fanclub", comprised of Ned, Agnes, Sideshow Mel and The Parson, Lovejoy's boss, that introduces him to the Patriarch, and they tell Lovejoy of summoning more people to the church, the pastor assures them he is going to bring people since Springfieldians are a good Christian community.
NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS KUCKUCKSUHR MOVIE
Both groups will appreciate the dark fairytale, the clever songs, the darkly imaginative animation and the comic sense of humour, making this a family film that deserves to be remembered even as kids movie get smarter and fancier.Krusty tries to impress his daughter as they spend Christmas with The Simpsons. Overall this is a very short but very enjoyable film that will please both children and adults at the same time (with the same material) and never ignores or panders to one side of the audience over the other. Sarandon and Elfman combine to do a good job with Jack Page is fun as Oogie Boogie O'Hara is good as Sally despite not having as fun a character to work with but for my money it is Hickey (as Dr Finklestein) and Shadix (Mayor) that make the biggest impression, mainly due to having the most enjoyable characters. The voice cast may not feature a load of well-known voices in the same way as Pixar films generally do, but they still do a great job. All the characters have a great deal of effort put in and they add to the dark feel of the film. The same praise can be laid at the door of the stop-motion animation, which is inventive and fun to look at from start to finish. Some viewers may come to this with Pixar in their minds and bemoan it for not being hilariously funny from start to finish, but they are missing the point and The songs reflect this approach and are very clever throughout whether it is the sorrowful longing of Jack at the start or the Cab Calloway-inspired song from Oogie Boogie Man, generally they are inventive and fun. Regardless of the material, the film still manages to come off as charming and enjoyable thanks to a well-written script that never plays for the basic laugh or easy sentiment. Despite this the material will play equally well to adults and children because it neither panders to nor excludes one group over the other at any time. The only downside of this darkness is that younger children might not 'get it' and just end up being scared by the Halloween images and imaginative images. Too often kids films (especially at the time and animated) are soaked in a sweet sentiment that simply forgets that kids are not stupid and indeed often prefer a bit of darkness in the story. The basic plot is a great little fantasy fairytale with a very dark heart to it that make it much more enjoyable for having that edge. With Pixar currently dominating the world of 'animations that please both children and adults' it is easy to forget that over a decade ago Tim Burton delivered this delightful family film to the cinema using a much more traditional animation and a huge amount of imagination. But the others in the towns realize the significant consequences that this disruption of the norm will have as Jack's evil nature proves harder to overcome than he thought. Having finally worked out what Christmas is all about, Jack decides to kidnap Santa and make himself the new king of Christmas Town so that he can have the happiness of Christmas all the time. However deep inside he longs for more than the horror and scares of Halloween Town, a longing he cannot understand until he stumbles into Christmas Town and sees happiness and cheer the likes of which has evaded him all these years. Jack Skellington is the Pumpkin King the creative genius behind the holiday of Halloween, designing each year to be scarier and more horrible than the one before.
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