Frankenweenie is undoubtedly a beautifully-crafted stop-motion animation, enhanced by gloriously crisp black-and-white, based around the simple emotional premise of a boy and his pet dog who meets a tragic accident. There are some pitch-black comedy moments which provide some real laughs - although these are all too few, and the dramatic pathos of the central relationship comes across well, and yet...maybe it is over-familiarity with the original short from which the movie is expanded, Tim Burton's regular tropes and the none-too-subtle filmic references which perhaps make Frankenweenie a little less sparkling than expected, and this may be a case where the shorter original version works better than the expanded form.
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