Movie review: ‘Frankenweenie’
‘Frankenweenie’ is frankly fantastic
For too long, Tim Burton has been caught up in retreads and remakes, and his stop-motion horror parody “Frankenweenie” is not an exception.
Yet this time Burton is remaking one of his own works, and so he remains true to his own vision for one of the few times in the last decade.
“Frankenweenie” is an expanded version of a 30-minute, live-action short Burton made for Disney in 1984. Disney honchos at the time said Burton had “wasted company resources” on a film too dark and scary for kids and fired him.
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