All flash, no smash

Rating: 2/10 (8 December 2008)

The story? Terrible. The duologue? Terrible. The songs? Good, but were restricted due to a weak plot. The animation? Absolutely fantastic! A wonderful looking film, and has some really interesting characters. It's really too bad that they are subjected to such a weak plot--Sad pumkin king wants to kidnap santa and accidentally ruins Christmas. Would have been fantastic if there were some bumps along the way, but that's really just about it- kidnap santa, ruin Christmas, and look good doing it. I do like Burton's work, and really appreciate the painstaking effort that must have gone into producing such mindblowing visuals, but a movie with a weak plot is nothing more than... a weak movie. Oh well. As a movie, this is terrible... as a visual treat this is really hard to top.... I give it a 2 simply because I am rating the movie itself....