Showing all 34 items. Jump to: Director Trademark 1 Spoilers 2. The turtle "Shelley" is named for Mary Shelley , who wrote "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus," the novel on which this film is loosely based. The mayor of the town is Mr. Burgermeister, which means "mayor" in German.
Although Christopher Lee had appeared in two previous films by Tim Burton. He does appear in archive footage of him in Horror of Dracula is watched by Victor's parents on television. The hair on the head of Elsa Van Helsing's dog Persephone is copied from the hair of Elsa Lanchester 's character in The Bride of Frankenstein right down to the white streaks.
The film's release spawned a fan theory that this film, and Burton's other two stop motion animated films, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride , all are taking place in a shared continuity, and tell one big story spanning several centuries, and the possibility that Victor Frankenstein and Sparky are descendants of Victor Van Dort and Scraps from Corpse Bride Winona Ryder and Tim Burton 's third collaboration, with gap of 22 years since their second one, Edward Scissorhands Rzykruski is directly modeled on Martin Landau , whose character is voiced by Landau.
Not only was Martin right for the part, but he has appeared in a number of previous Burton films, including Ed Wood , for which he won an Oscar for best supporting actor. The demonstration that Mr.
Rzykruski shows in class of the frog's legs twitching when given electricity is based on actual experiments in by Italian physicist Luigi Galvani, who was the first to discover that the legs of dead frogs and other dead creatures twitched and moved when sparked by electricity. This led to the study of bio-electricity and further study of the nervous system and its functions. The study of "galvanic" effects in biology is named after Galvani, who is seen as the discoverer of bio-electricity.
Several of Tim Burton 's movies have played with this theme, most notably Frankenweenie and Edward Scissorhands Nassor is strongly similar in appearance and speech to the original monster from Frankenstein while his hamster is a Mummy.
Winona Ryder did her own singing. Tahan does a great job of portraying Victor's affection for the very charming dog, who remains charming after his resurrection. Do you like Tim Burton movies? Frankenweenie is the distilled essence of a Tim Burton movie; it has all his interests and obsessions - monsters, kids, weird kids, movies, suburbia, cute animals, scary old guys, and as many references to classic horror pictures as it's possible to pack into one movie.
Given that this is a remake of one of Burton's earliest films which got him fired from Disney for being too bizarre , and given the subject matter, it's fair to say that in many ways, Frankenweenie is the film he's been working toward for the last 25 years. Well, the central theme is death, so that's probably a pretty good indicator; if your kids don't understand the concept of death, they are probably too young for the movie; if you take them anyway, there's probably an awkward conversation in your immediate future.
But for kids old enough to get it I'd say 8 or 9 and up, depending on the particular kid , it's a very funny movie. The last third of the movie finds the town of New Holland under full attack by an assortment of monsters, with lots of property damage and physical harm; even though the action involves cartoonish sculpted figures rather than actual people, it's still a little intense.
Frankenweenie is the natural successor to Nightmare Before Christmas and the Corpse Bride, so if your kids could handle those, they should be okay with this. Uniformly great. He sneaks home, past his parents, and up to his room. He collects various bits of electrical equipment from around the house and assembles a crude laboratory in the attic.
He places Sparky on a platter and raises him up through the attic skylight. Next door, Mr. Burgemeister watches in disgusted curiosity as Victor lets fly a trio of kites into the storm.
Victor returns to the attic and watches as lightning strikes near Sparky's body. A bolt strikes Sparky, and bright electrical sparks flow through the attic.
As the effects of the strike dissipate, Victor reels in Sparky's body and checks for signs of life. He finds none. Saddened, Victor hugs Sparky's remains and feels his tail move. Sparky, though scarred from the accident, and stapled all over, is alive. He wags his tail with glee until it falls off.
Over the next few days, Victor keeps Sparky's reanimation a secret from his family and classmates. He pleads with Sparky to stay in the attic while he's at school. The Weird Girl's cat, Whiskers, appears in the attic skylight and calls to Sparky. Sparky chases Whiskers out through the skylight, and into the neighbor's yard where Bob's mother Conchata Ferrell is hanging bed sheets.
She catches sight of the decomposing Sparky and retreats into her house. Sparky spends the rest of the day outside. He flirts with Elsa's poodle Persephone , and by touching noses, gives it a shocking Bride of Frankenstein-like white streak in her hair. He manages to go mostly unnoticed, with the exception of Edgar, who spots him on the way home from school.
Victor returns home, charged up Sparky and finds Edgar waiting for him. Edgar blackmails Victor, and threatens to tell the whole town about Sparky, unless Victor gives him what he wants—a science fair project. Edgar visits the local pet shop, and buys the only dead goldfish in the store. He makes Victor reproduce the experiment which reanimated Sparky. A storm gathers, the kites are sent up into the sky, and a single lightning bolt electrifies the fishbowl with the floating, dead fish.
They lower the bowl into the attic, but it's empty. Edgar runs his fingers through the water and infers that the fish has to be in there, because he can feel it. The two shine a light into the bowl, and barely see a nearly invisible living skeleton swimming in the water. Their experiment somehow turned the fish invisible. Victor is confused by the results, but Edgar is pleased.
An invisible fish will surely win him first place at the science fair. Edgar returns home with the fish, only after promising Victor that he won't tell the class how the fish turned invisible. Victor notices that Sparky is less animated than before, and his eyes are no longer glowing with electricity, as he is run down.
He clamps Sparky's bolts to a pair of jumper cables, and plugs him into a wall socket. This immediately returns life to Sparky. Despite his secret, Victor is about to change Sparky from a once lifeless canine corpse to a cultured sophisticated dog. At school, Edgar has broken his promise and tells everybody about his reanimated, invisible fish.
Bob and Toshiaki are most annoyed by this news because their own science fair project an off-the-shelf experiment can't compete with an invisible fish. They vow to come up with something mind-blowing. Later that day, Nassor Martin Short asks Edgar to show him the fish. He runs his fingers through the water, and feeling nothing, infers that Edgar's invisible fish is fake and teases him for wasting his time. Bob and Toshiaki, intent upon winning first prize at the science fair, have begun a new experiment involving a carbonated water jet pack worn by Bob.
The pair stand on Bob's roof, and Toshiaki pulls the ripcord. The jet pack sends Bob slowly rolling across the roof, briefly gives him the power of flight, and then drops him like a sack of potatoes. With his arm broken, Bob's mother phones the hospital and the school. Rzykruski is in trouble for encouraging children to engage in dangerous science experiments. Nearly all of the kid's parents support Mr.
Rzykruski's firing, except for the Frankensteins, and Mayor Burgemeister fires Mr. Rzykruski in an instant. Victor watches as Mr. Rzykruski takes a cardboard box full of his possessions out to his car, and stops him before he leaves. Victor apologizes for his firing and asks if an identical experiment can produce two different results. Rzykruski implies that Victor's experiments had different intents and different variables, which affected the outcome.
He tells him that science doesn't just take place in one's head, but in one's heart, too. Rzykruski drives off. By now, Victor is having a hard time keeping Sparky's reanimation a secret from anyone. Edward and Susan find out and are immediately upset with Victor.
During the fight, Sparky escapes the attic and flees the house. The family sets out after him. They observe the details and head their separate ways. Edgar breaks into the school's science room, and reproduces Victor's lab with makeshift equipment.
He seeks to reanimate a dead rat he found in the school. Nassor and Toshiaki head to the pet cemetery.
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