April 4, 2012
Frankenweenie.
If you saw The Hunger Games recently (in Canada, anyway), there’s probably a pretty good chance you saw the trailer for Tim Burton’s upcoming Frankenweenie: a computer stop motion animated film about a boy who brings his dog back from the grave.
The movie is actually an extended animated version of an 1984 Burton short film of the same name. He made the film for Disney before he’d done a feature, but you can tell from very early on that this is a Tim Burton movie. If you have 30 minutes to spare, it’s definitely worth checking out. It even features a young(er) Daniel Stern, known to most of us as Marv from the Home Alone movies.
[here sat a video, before it was removed by Disney]
Marv’s ALSO the voice of Kevin from the Wonder Years!
Frankenweenie 2012, is a stop motion feature animation, its not a computer animation.
So it is. For some reason, when I saw the trailer first, I was sure it was merely computer animated in the Corpse Bride style. Thanks for setting me straight.