The finest animated feature I have ever seen

Rating: 10/10 (31 October 2004)

Greetings;
On the big screen this was the finest animated feature I have ever seen, however, when it was released to video, it was presented in pan and zoom, and thus I have not watched it since. I sold my video taped version and hope to see it on DVD.
Most impressive were the Burton's archetypal images joined with Danny Elfman's musical composition and the ultimate opera they achieved. A Jungian representation of "Gone With the Wind" and "Bach's Mass in B-Minor".
In many ways we are sew to gether and patched up, in one way shape or form, and each of us in our own way hope to discover the land of Christmas and its true meaning.
Each of us participates in our own way to proceed from the mundane thru the arcane.
Mr. Burton and Mr. Elfman have in their own unigue way created a
method to proceed from the ordinary to the extraordinary. They took a simple theme and gender, and there their individual and combined insight transformed it to reflect each persons dream to become something, or someone greater then they're parts, then they're past, then they're whole.
The tension points in the film are exquisitely brought forth by Elfman's voice and composition. The entire is carried by the visual images of Burton and audio expressions of Elfman.
The entire deserved an Oscar, for each. And I look forward to perhaps a return of both of them to again to an animated opera.
Just in the future, please release it in full-screen DVD.
David