Monday, January 14, 2013

Frankenstein for the kids













I really liked the short Frankenweenie (1984) so I was kind of looking forward to this feature length version of it. It's a story about a boy who brings his dead dog back to life in a true Frankenstein fashion. Well unfortunately I must say I wasn't really impressed with this movie. Most of the best jokes were already in the short version and to be honest there really isn't enough story to go for a feature length movie. Sure there's tons of references to old horror classics that kept me somewhat entertained, but really most of the new stuff is rather dull. I did like the stop-motion animation, it's always a nice touch in middle of all these computer animated movies also a huge plus for the black and white. Style wise there's nothing wrong in this movie, it looks great. The 3D however seemed rather useless here, even as the stupid gimmick it is, that's really saying something. Also I didn't like the voice acting, not a single character sounded real, not that they looked real either, but some personality would have been nice there. All in all this ends in the average department, with the style just barely pushing it above.
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