Frankenweenie (1984)

Please don't spend money on this.

Lack of good storyline.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

A young boy sets out to revive his dead pet using the monstrous power of science. Frankenweenie is definitely a short that is quite interesting and pretty good for such an old film that was released in 1984, the acting was fine and pretty solid and i was suprised when i saw Shelley Duvall (The Shining) and Daniel Stern (Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York) as the little kid's parents it was definitely unexpected. Burton also works quite well with black and white and this film definitely needed something like that. The storyline was pretty sweet and interesting plus the music was very dark something out of Beetlejuice or Batman and fits well with the tone of the movie. (7.5/10)

Sad, I watched it after watching the remade version. I cannot believe Tim Burton was fired for making this. Yeah, I agree it is too dark for the 80s theme, but it's got matter. A simple, odd story about how far a kid can go to bring back his lovable dog Sparky!The concept is inventive and Burton has done a stupendous job with both the versions. Music is spooky, screenplay is good and everything gels in this 30 minutes of classic thriller! Watch it before you watch the critically acclaimed 2012 remake!WATCH OUT FOR: the serious slapstick!Language: No | Sex: No | Violence: No

After 'Vincent' Tim Burton made the short 'Frankenweenie', a spoof of, as well as a homage to the movie Frankenstein. The short is about a boy and his pet dog, who's run over by a car. The boy then tries to bring his dog back to life.After this movie, Tim Burton was fired from Disney, for 'wasting studio efforts on a mg-6 movie'. Was it a waste? No. Was it good they fired him? Yes. Otherwise we'd be watching 'The Fox and the Hound' drawn by him, instead of the masterpieces like Sweeney Todd and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory he makes today.This short is not as good as 'Vincent', but is still very much fun to watch, the story lines and environment incline towards Edward Scissorhands, and Shelley DuVall is very good as mother Frankenstein.8/10

What a film! I use it as a teaching tool for parody with 7th and 8th graders. It seems obvious why Disney didn't release this little gem, too macabre for young ones! I enjoyed the sparse black and white filming and the mob scene! I think Burton strayed from the original film in all the right places, specifically, the scene in which Sparky is revived and we DON'T here "It's alive!" The attic scene in which Burton re-creates the lab is eye-catching with its swing set, Christmas decorations and kitchen appliances becoming fertile ground for Sparky's new life. FYI, Barrett Oliver plays the neighbor and Joseph Maher plays Victor.