A Family Feast

Rating: 10/10 (27 May 2005)

In my review of Halloween, I said that October 31st is my favorite day of the year because of the excitement and the joy, but as a little boy, Christmas was my favorite day of the year where I would see people gathering and talking about things they did that year, not to mention the gifts I would receive. In Tim Burton's latest production, the film is about two worlds joining together in a wrecking mayhem.
Jack the Pumpkin King is the leader of "Halloween Town" where every Halloween, his band of misfit monsters would go and scare all the children in the world; as much as he's fed up of scaring people, Jack wants to find out about the other traditions that people celebrate and finds out the Christmas is the one he likes as he sees the snow dropping from the sky, to a decorate Christmas tree with children playing inside houses, he wants to adopt the tradition into the Halloween world where everything is chaos as the little monsters kidnap Santa Claus and take him hostage where Jack takes the place of Santa putting monsters in stockings. What a hoot to watch.
After watching so many of Burton movies, this is the one where I can watch with my nieces next to the first Batman and Pee Wee's Big Adventure as family films where these films are not as nightmarish as other films I have watched.