O Estranho Mundo de Jack
Jack Skellington é o Rei das Abóboras na cidade de Halloween mas está entediado após anos a repetir sempre as mesmas coisas na Noite das Bruxas. Certo dia, por acaso, descobre a cidade do Natal e fica tão impressionado que decide trazer o espírito natalício para as festas do Halloween.
Directed by
Henry Selick
Written by
Tim Burton, Caroline Thompson, Michael McDowell, Mike Cachuela
Studio
Tim Burton Productions
Genre
Fantasia, Animação, Família, Musical
Video
1080p
Audio
English (TRUEHD 7.1)
Subtitles
English
Cast
Danny Elfman
Jack Skellington (singing) / Barrel / Clown with the Tear away Face (voice)
Chris Sarandon
Jack Skellington (voice)
Catherine O'Hara
Sally / Shock (voice)
William Hickey
Dr. Finkelstein (voice)
Glenn Shadix
Mayor (voice)
Paul Reubens
Lock (voice)
Ken Page
Oogie Boogie (voice)
Edward Ivory
Santa Claus (voice)
Kerry Katz
Man Under Stairs / Vampire / Corpse Dad (voice)
Carmen Twillie
Undersea Gal / Man Under the Stairs (voice)
Randy Crenshaw
Mr. Hyde / Behemoth / Vampire Corpse Dad (voice)
Debi Durst
Corpse Kid / Corpse Mom / Small Witch (voice)
Glenn Walters
Wolfman (voice)
Sherwood Ball
Mummy / Vampire (voice)
Greg Proops
Harlequin Demon / Devil / Sax Player (voice)
Tim Burton
Zero (voice)
Susan McBride
Big Witch / WWD. (voice)
Mia Brown
Additional Voices (voice)
L. Peter Callender
Additional Voices (voice)
Ann Fraser
Additional Voices (voice)
Jennifer Levey
Additional Voices (voice)
Jesse McClurg
Additional Voices (voice)
John Morris
Santa Boy (voice)
Robert Olague
Additional Voices (voice)
Bobbi Page
Additional Voices (voice)
Elena Praskin
Additional Voices (voice)
Trampas Warman
Additional Voices (voice)
Judi M. Durand
Additional Voices (voice)
Doris Hess
Additional Voices (voice)
Daamen J. Krall
Additional Voices (voice)
Christina MacGregor
Additional Voices (voice)
David McCharen
Additional Voices (voice)
Gary Raff
Additional Voices (voice)
David J. Randolph
Additional Voices (voice)
Gary Schwartz
Additional Voices (voice)
Joe Ranft
Igor (voice) (uncredited)
Reviews
Owen Gleiberman
I'm not sure I've ever seen a fantasy film that's at once so visually amazing and so emotionally dead.
Roger Moore
A work of grand visual wit, clever songs, funny gags and genuine pathos, it is perhaps the greatest stop-motion animated film ever, a painstaking style of model animation that computers have all but completely done away with.
John Hartl
Visually a macabre knockout, this 75-minute fantasy boasts some of the wittiest, most vigorous stop-motion animation effects in the history of the process.
Michael Wilmington
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas has a grotesque charm, a pie-eyed magic.
Jay Boyar
Burton and his collaborators present a movie musical that's like nothing you've ever seen.
Daniel Gray Longino
If the 3-D fails to grab you as much as you might hope, it never takes you out of the movie, which is a remarkable feat.
Scott Brown
Flattened for years on cable and video, Nightmare has been resurrected in all its tactile glory.
Elizabeth Weitzman
Burton's skewed vision is seamlessly realized by director Henry Selick and cleverly enhanced by Danny Elfman's songs.
Nancy Churnin
Thirteen years after its debut, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas has gone 3D, which makes a good thing even better.
Chris Stuckmann
I'm blown away by just the construction of the scenes, and by all of the effects that have been incorporated to make everything move fluidly; and there's also this charming imperfection to the animation that just makes it so gorgeous.
Nick Schager
The Nightmare Before Christmas is a veritable bounty of visual delights.
Kenneth Turan
Part avant-garde art film, part amusing but morbid fairy tale, it is a delightfully ghoulish holiday musical that displays more inventiveness in its brief 75 minutes than some studios can manage in an entire year.
Anthony Lane
This full-length animated movie was shot in stop motion, with all the febrile, twittery fascination that the medium exerts; it has a magic-toy shop feeling, with unexpected objects stuttering into life.
Desmond Ryan
Burton, the man who gave us Batman, Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands, is incapable of a conventional idea. His take on the holiday fairy tale is delightfully off the wall.
David Ansen
This cautionary fable (Be True to Your Ghoulish Self) may be a little too twisted for little kids but anyone 8 or older will spot the friendly glint behind jack's empty eye sockets.
Richard Corliss
A fun house of funereal glamour.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The set designs are ingenious and the songs (music and lyrics by Danny Elfman) are fairly good.
Variety
Todd McCarthy
The dazzling techniques employed here create a strikinglook that's never been seen in such sustained form, making this a unique curio that will appeal to kids and film enthusiasts alike.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
This is the movie puts the "oooh" back in "boo."
Janet Maslin
The Nightmare Before Christmas is a major step forward for both stop-motion animation, which is stunningly well used, and for Mr. Burton himself. He now moves from the level of extremely talented eccentric to that of Disney-style household word.