Frankenweenie

 “Frankenweenie” is a stop-motion animated horror comedy film in black and white scene which produced by Disney and directed by Tim Burton in 2012. This movie is a remake from Tim Burton’s short film in 1984 which also named “Frankenweenie”.

     In this movie, the little boy Victor lost his dog Sparky in a car accident. He was very sad and decided to use the method of electric shock which he learned from the biology class to make Sparky resurging. In a violent thunderstorm night, Victor made his dream come true, Sparky was hit by lightning and than revived. However, Victor’s classmate Edgar found Sparky’s resurgence and threatened Victor to show him the experiment. After that other classmates known the Victor’s secret and they also discovered Victor's reanimation formula. By using the formula, these classmates all made some dead animals revived, but some of these animals turn into horrible monsters. These monsters are out of control and attack the residents in the town. The Mayor's niece Elsa’s poodle Persephone was took by Mr. Whiskers a vampire cat monster and carried to the town windmill. Victor and Elsa follow them to the windmill, other people in the town also holding the torch and ran to the windmill. The angry Mayor burnt the windmill by accident, while Victor and Sparky run into the burning windmill to rescue Elsa and Persephone. Finally, Elsa and Persephone were saved, and Spark dragged unconscious Victor out do the windmill, but it was dead in the fire by fighting with Mr. Whiskers. People were all moved by Spark and contributed their auto battery to revive it. In the end of the story, Spark revived again and gave audiences a happy ending.

     In Tim Burton’s movies, they always include the gothic gloomy tone which makes his stories displayed the feelings of sad and weird, but after you watched them and think about them, you will find that Tim Burton has actually fabricated some innocent and warm dream to us. I myself very enjoy to this movie, because this story is touched me and the vintage image make me back to my childhood. Also the music in this movie is awesome. They are composed by Danny Elfman who has been collaborating with Tim Burton for more than 10 years. Danny’s music always gave me the feelings as odd and gloomy, but also fantastic and beautiful.  I would like to give this movie it 5 stars!