Simply NOT a classic. Does not age well.

Rating: 1/10 (2 November 2016)

I am doing a 2016 review of this movie. I was a child when this movie came out and I personally loved it at that time. I am reviewing this movie now in 2016 for the young generation of today.
I have a young son and his two friends were over, we were looking through movies to watch and they all decided on this. We got maybe 20 minutes in and the CHILDREN...not me, decided to turn it off. This movie simply does not stand the test of time.
Some have said the animation is very good...well by the standard of today it is not, also gauging by the kids reactions the first comments were 'this looks old'. The camera is jerky and hard to watch, the scenes are all dark and bland,"halloween town" looks like a little cardboard set (not in a cool stop motion animation type of way). The animation department could never fit more than a few characters on the screen at the same time.
I do not really know how this movie became some cult phenomenon but watching it with children in 2016 it is flat and boring. The animation is underwhelming and stale. I like the songs but the kids did not.
I give it one out of ten because children will simple be bored with a movie like this now. We switched the choice to Power Rangers Christmas and they all liked that a lot more.