Genre:
Comedy/Horror/Animation
Directed by:
Tim Burton
Starring:
Release date:
Fri 05, Oct 2012
Frankenweenie is a 2012 3D stop motion comedy-horror family
film directed by Tim Burton. It is a remake of Burton's 1984 short film of the
same name and is a parody of and an homage to the 1931 film Frankenstein based
on Mary Shelley's book of the same name. Like both those films, Frankenweenie
is in black and white. In the film, a boy named Victor loses his dog, named
Sparky and uses the power of science to resurrect him. The film was released by
Walt Disney Pictures on October 5, 2012 and met with positive reviews and
moderate box office sales. It was the first black-and-white feature film and
the first stop-motion film to be released in IMAX 3D.
Plot
Young filmmaker and scientist Victor Frankenstein lives with
his parents and dog Sparky in the quiet town of New Holland. Concerned with his
son's isolation, Victor's father encourages him to take up baseball and make
achievements outside of science. Victor hits a home run at his first game, but
Sparky, pursuing the ball, is killed by a car. Inspired by his science teacher
Mr. Rzykruski's demonstration of the effect of electricity on dead frogs, a
depressed Victor digs up Sparky's corpse, brings him to his makeshift
laboratory in the attic, and successfully reanimates him with lightning. Seeing
a cat, the undead Sparky escapes from the attic and explores the neighborhood.
He is recognized by Victor's hunchbacked classmate Edgar Gore, who blackmails
Victor into teaching him how to raise the dead. The two reanimate a dead
goldfish, which turns invisible due to an error with the experiment. Edgar
brags about the undead fish to their other classmates—Nassor, Toshiaki, Bob,
and a girl nicknamed "Weird Girl"—sparking their own interest in
reanimation so they can show off their resurrected pets at the town science
fair.
Victor's parents discover Sparky in the attic and are
frightened, causing the dog to flee. Victor and his parents search for Sparky
while the classmates invade the lab, discovering Victor's reanimation formula.
The classmates separately perform their experiments, which go awry and turn the
dead animals into monsters—Weird Girl's living cat Mr. Whiskers holds a dead
bat while it is electrocuted, turning him into a vampire cat; Edgar turns a
dead rat he found in the garbage into a wererat; Nassor revives his mummified
hamster Colossus; Toshiaki's turtle Shelley is covered in a growth formula and
turns into a giant Gamera-like monster; and Bob's Sea-Monkeys grow into
amphibious humanoid monsters. The monsters break lose into the town fair where
they wreak havoc.
After finding Sparky at the town cemetery, Victor sees the
monsters attacking the fair and goes to help his classmates deal with them—the
Sea-Monkeys explode after eating salt-covered popcorn, and Colossus is stepped
on by Shelley, while the rat and Shelley are returned to their original,
deceased forms after being electrocuted. During the chaos, the town mayor's
niece Elsa van Helsing is grabbed by Mr. Whiskers and carried to the town
windmill. The townsfolk blame Sparky for her disappearance and chase him to the
windmill, which the mayor accidentally ignites with his torch. Victor and
Sparky enter the burning windmill and rescue Elsa, but Victor is trapped
inside. Sparky rescues Victor, only to be dragged back inside by Mr. Whiskers. Both pets are killed when the windmill collapses. To reward Sparky for his
bravery, the townsfolk gather to revive Sparky with their car batteries,
reanimating him once more.
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References.
External links:
"Main Page." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 25 Oct. 2012. Web. 25 Oct 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>.
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