Tim Burton's Frankenweenie: It's alive! Again!

Everyone loves the heartwarming story of a boy and his dog. But when that boy is Victor Frankenstein and the dog is a reanimated but still loyal (and cute!) corpse, you know Tim Burton is involved.

 

If the story sounds familiar, it's because Burton already made Frankenweenie-- and it got him fired from Disney back in 1984. I remember it lovingly, as well as the short movie The Family Dog, which had the same hilarious bull terrier. Thanks to Burton's recent success with turning cartoons and family movies a little darker (thank you, Alice! ) he's been given the green light to recreate his original masterpiece in black and white stop-motion animation featuring voice actors like Winona Ryder and Catherine O'Hara.Is it a little morbid for a kid movie? Yep. But I always admire how Burton can take the darkest subject and bring it home in a warm and meaningful way. On the outside, it's a gothy tale of a kid zapping a dead dog with lightning. But on the inside, it's about loyalty, never giving up on friends, and not judging a book by a cover. That's a Frankenpup I can get behind.~Delilah

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