One of Burton's very best films

Rating: 9/10 (17 October 2014)

The Nightmare Before Christmas from my perspective is supposed to be a parody of the classic and poetic Christmas story Twas the night before Christmas. The movie is an animated character study about Jack Skellington (voiced by Danny Elfman) who is the king of Halloweentown who tries to visit another town by the name of Christmastown but does not understand what the idea of Christmas is. Burton is funny with the way he describes his characters with his first clay-mation movie and how he makes them come to life, but it was a huge surprise to me that even though Tim Burton wrote the screenplay to this film the big shame is that he didn't direct it as well but don't get me wrong Henry Selick still did a good job with directing this movie. The acting in this film reminds me of the acting in the clay-mation film Mad Monster Party (1967). But in the end it is one of the best movies of 1993 as well as being one of Disney's great animated triumphs along with the Toy Story trilogy, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles and much much more.