Disney meets Tim Burton.

Rating: 8/10 (11 April 2014)

This is an animated musical produced by Tim Burton and Walt Disney Pictures, with direction by Henry Selick, where Pumpkin King Jack Skellington of Halloween Town is bored with repeating the same routine celebration every year for Halloween, and decides to try something different. He stumbles into Christmas Town, and, delighted with the cheerful and spirit of the joyous holiday he sees, he decides to share in some ideas back home in Halloween Town. However, things don't go accordingly to plan and he indirectly gets Santa Claus kidnapped.
Filmed in brilliant stop-motion animation, this is a clever story that clashes Halloween with Christmas. At 76 minutes long, this movie is fast-paced with an exciting plot of Jack Skellington trying to fix his stumbles of trying to mix in Christmas themes with Halloween, to a race against time to rescue Santa Clause from the Oogie Boogie so that gifts can be delivered to the children in time for Christmas. All the voice-acting were brilliantly done and a few of the songs were haunting and catchy, especially "Jack's Lament" and "The Oogie Boogie Song."
There are some scary ghostly-themed images, and some childish moments, but overall, it is a film for all ages.
Grade B