THE ABSOLUTE BEST...

....animated film ever made (besides spirited away)Also its my favorite movie. A truely awsome tim burton film. The first time I Saw NBC was when I was 3 or 4 and I never got tired of it. I showed the movie to a kindergartner and she loved it, wasn't scared at all. The animation is beautiful and the music is memorable (go Danny Elfman) plus all the songs are great, will be stuck in your head for days. Seriously watch this movie (if you haven't) its a has remained a classic for 13 years.

Almost 5 stars except for...

A technical matter - this was filmed @ 1.66:1, meaning that when you play it back on your HD widescreen it is going to show as a box with black borders all around it. If it were properly handled, an anamorphic transfer would blow the image to fill most of the screen except for small black vertical bars along the sides of the screen. If you play this back on a standard 4:3 television it won't matter - it will look just fine. Aside from that, the dvd has an excellent collection of materials. Luckily, I own the HUGE deluxe CAV LaserDisc boxed special edition and it looks like they managed to port all of it to dvd (except for the companion book by Frank Thompson). You could spend weeks admiring this film, frame-by-frame, so meticulous in detail. Elfman's great songs match very well with the story and perfect animation.

The BEST!!!

I've watched this movie every year on Halloween and I've never gotten bored of it. I went through 100 reviews and only 4 or 5 people disliked the movie, so that should be a testiment to its quality. Granted, some people may think it too morbid for young children, but I have a 6 year-old brother who has wathed it with us for several years and he's never been frightened. Also, the myth about this being a "goth" movie it not quite true. I'm not goth, and I have a friend who is as far from goth as one can be and she LOVES this movie. The basic point of The Nightmare Before Christmas is the Pumpkin King, Jack Skellington who is a skeleton (duh) grows bored of is job as boss of Halloween and accidentily finds Christmas Town. When he returns from his adventure he tries to explain this holiday to the citizens of Halloween who don't really geat it. Jack decides to take over Christmas and disasterous results follow. This is a musical so there is obviously music and singing (which is exceptoinal). There is a little bit of romance, and a little bit of comedy, something about this that makes it a classic in my opinion. I reccomend it for anyone or Tim Burton fans especially.