Just in time for Halloween, this past Friday marked the beginning of the 2007 3-week theater showing of The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D. Once more you can see Jack the Pumpkin King and the rest of the stop-motion animation crew singing on the big screen. But this time, with added 3D effects, you'll really feel like you're a part of the film when you are watching it.
For those of you who aren't familiar with The Nightmare Before Christmas, it all starts out in Halloween Town located next to the Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter towns. The town lives for Halloween, its only holiday, and creates the holiday for our world in the way that (as the fable goes) Santa does for Christmas. One day after stumbling into Christmas Town Jack decides that they should kidnap Santa and that Halloween Town should do Christmas on their own.
The plot perhaps doesn't sound that interesting on its own, but when you add in the singing (with Oingo Boingo's Danny Elfman as the voice of Jack), Jack's struggle to get the town to understand Christmas, and Sally, the ragdoll who is infatuated with Mr. Skellington, you have the scene set for a uniquely devious movie.
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really pop out or shoot out at you.