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Title:
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
Region:
One
Genre:
Stop Motion Animated Fantasy
Writer:
Caroline Thompson
Based
On A Story And Characters Created By: Tim Burton
Director:
Henry Selick
Feature
length: 76 minutes
Extras:
Behind-The-Scenes Featurette, Deleted Scenes And Animated Sequences, Tim
Burton’s Early Film: “Frankenweenie”
Languages:
English Stereo Sound
Subtitles:
English SDH and French and Spanish Language Subtitles
Packaging:
Keep Case
Chapter
Stops: 20
Sound:
Stereo Sound
Year
of UMD Release: 2005
Theatrical
Distributor: Touchstone Pictures
Home
Video Distributor: Touchstone Home Entertainment
MPAA
Rating: PG
Reviewer:
Mark A. Rivera
Based
on characters created by and a story by Tim Burton, “The Nightmare Before
Christmas” is the rare fantasy film that actually caters to two holidays at
once. You can watch it for Halloween or Christmas. Danny Elfman provides the
music and lyrics for the film that tells the fairy tale of Jack Skellington, the
Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, who discovers the winter cheer of Christmas
quite accidentally when he stumbles through a magical doorway into Christmas
Town. Despite their appearances, the citizens of Halloween Town are not evil. In
fact they are all excited about the possibilities celebrating Christmas might
bring, but they just don’t understand it. Much the way the Adams Family might
see macabre things as being beautiful and fun, Jack Skellington just wants to be
Santa Clause with his own spooky take on gift giving and unwittingly puts Santa
Claus and both magical worlds in danger at the hands of Oogie Boogie, the only
truly malevolent being in Halloween Town.
The
(1.66:1) aspect ratio presentation looks gorgeous on the widescreen LCD display
of Sony’s PSP. The colors just jump out at the viewer and film like this
absolutely benefits from having an external docking source or converter to bring
the clear Stereo Soundtrack and remix it into a remarkable Dolby Surround
Soundtrack. In absence of such a device, viewers should then use the ear buds
provided with their PSP since the tiny stereo speakers on the Sony PlayStation
Portable’s face are just too low to do a film like this any justice.
Personally any UMD I screen and review is always docked on Dreamgear’s “I’
Sound Pro” set to surround output and until I can test a product that beats
the functionality of it, I am sticking with my recommendation for this product
as a companion for UMD for PSP s. English
Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing as well as French and Spanish
Language Subtitles are encoded onto the UMD as options too.
The
interactive menus are fully animated with motion scene selections and are easy
to navigate. The bonus materials were originally a part of the deluxe laserdisc
release from the mid 1990s as well as the subsequent DVD release and these
materials include a behind-the-scenes making of documentary and deleted and
storyboarded sequences that were never animated featuring comments by Director
Henry Selick. In total there are four deleted scenes, including one where stop
motion vampires are playing hockey with Tim Burton’s animated head. The four
storyboarded sequences include an alternate reveal of who the identity of Oogie
Boogie could have been. These deleted and never animated scenes feature temp
music at times as well. The complete and uncut version of Tim Burton’s early
film “Frankenweenie” is presented in a gorgeous black and white (1.33:1)
aspect ratio. Trailers for “The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And
The Wardrobe”, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy”, and “Dark
Water” conclude the bonus materials included on this UMD for PSP.
Ring
in the holidays on your PSP with Touchstone Home Entertainment’s “Tim
Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas” UMD-Video, which is available now
at retailers on and offline.
©
Copyright 2005 By Mark A. Rivera
All Rights Reserved.
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