The Nightmare Before Christmas: Critic Reviews

Flattened for years on cable and video, Nightmare has been resurrected in all its tactile glory.

The Nightmare Before Christmas is a major step forward for both stop-motion animation, which is stunningly well used, and for Mr. Burton himself. He now moves from the level of extremely talented eccentric to that of Disney-style household word.

(Producer Tim) Burton's skewed vision is seamlessly realized by director Henry Selick and cleverly enhanced by Danny Elfman's songs.

Thirteen years after its debut, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas has gone 3D, which makes a good thing even better.

The set designs are ingenious and the songs (music and lyrics by Danny Elfman) are fairly good.

The hippest of all holiday classics, the 1993 release rendered anew in 3-D format remains a postmodern three-ring circus of morbid humor, eye-popping puppet animation and show-stopping songs.

The director of the film, a veteran stop-action master named Henry Selick, is the person who has made it all work. And his achievement is enormous.

The dazzling techniques employed here create a strikinglook that's never been seen in such sustained form, making this a unique curio that will appeal to kids and film enthusiasts alike.

A fun house of funereal glamour.

Tim Burton magic with just a touch of scariness.

...endlessly delightful, even as it deals in icky bugs and severed limbs.

O tom divertidamente sombrio da narrative, associado a uma direcao de arte magnifica e a otima trilha de Elfman, acaba resultando num conto de fadas que deve tanto aos Grimm quanto ao Expressionismo Alemao.

inspiring, wacky, and infused with Burton's unique romanticism suffused with, but not subsumed by, a gothic sensibility

A twisted revamp of Rankin-Bass by way of Edward Gorey. [Blu-ray]

a brilliant feat of movie making

This hugely entertaining horror fable for all the family might suffer from pacing problems, but it's also a true original that still stands out from today's CGI-heavy crowd.

The result, though refreshingly different from mainstream animated fare, is ultimately more trick than treat.

Still as fresh as the day it was released in 1993 and now in dazzling 3D, Tim Burton's stop-motion animated Nightmare Before Christmas is a compelling feast of twisted characters and imagery

The characters are vivid and often hilariously revolting.... Visually, the film is absolutely gorgeous.

Is it cooler than ever in 3-D? Well, sure. But essentially, it's the same movie that drew Tim Burton fans into theaters in 1993.

The bizarre but beguiling characters in Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas truly do dwell in a world of their own.

The story of Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King,... is like Jack himself - spindly and thin, but with a resounding voice.

This is the movie puts the "oooh" back in "boo."

Re-imagining "The Nightmare Before Christmas" as a three dimensional film has taken Henry Selick's modern masterwork and turned it into a timeless classic.

Concise, elegant, a tad scary, this is a treat for Halloween.