DVD Review: The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Nightmare Before Christmas

(DVD j Nightmare)

 

Jack Skellington, a skeleton, is the Pumpkin King of Halloweentown, but this year Halloween just isn’t the same and he longs for something more. He stumbles upon a set of colorful doors and goes through one that leads him to Christmastown. Jack is overjoyed with the sights and colors there and rushes back to Halloweentown to share the news. He decides to take over Christmas and recruits townspeople from Halloweentown to help him with the reindeer, presents, and kidnapping Sandy Claws. He also asks Sally, an animated rag doll who is in love with Jack, to sew him a Santa suit. Sally tries to warn him this is a bad idea but he doesn’t listen. Jack tells the children who kidnapped Sandy Claws to keep him somewhere comfortable but they take him to Oogie Boogie, the infamous boogeyman, instead. Sally tries to rescue him but fails and is captured as well. Jack goes back to Christmastown with loads of presents for the girls and boys but his opinion of presents – shrunken heads or toys that attack – are not well-accepted by the residents of Christmastown and they shoot down his sleigh instead. Jack is distraught and returns to Halloweentown where he rescues Sandy Claws and Sally from Oogie Boogie. Sandy Claws returns and saves Christmas but leaves Jack and Halloweentown with a parting gift, snow. Jack and Sally then declare their love for one another.

 

(If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try The Corpse Bride, Coraline, Frankenweenie, Hocus Pocus, James and the Giant Peach or Paranorman)

 

 ( Internet Movie Database entry for this film )

 

Recommended by Carrie R.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service

 

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