Yeah, what everyone else said. It's a great movie. AND(!) it serves as a dual purpose film too! It's great for Halloween; it's great for Christmas. Two in one!!! It's not too scary for the little kids and everyone can enjoy the songs.

Watch this one!

Of course, everything that is good about this movie has already been said in earlier reviews. And I honestly cannot find any flaws. Nothing that I didn't like. Everything in this movie pretty much range from me loving it or me REALLY loving it. The backrounds were cool and had creative style, the characters are well crafted, storyline is very entertaining, the music is catchy, well sung, and AWESOME! Just can't pick out anything that is at all not good.

I especially didn't expect this movie to be as endearing as it was. It is a must see! Please check this one out! 4 stars!

Hmm. Well I can think of many other movies that deserve a spot at number 1 better than this one, but anyway. Nightmare Before Christmas is one of the most imaginative and deliciously realized animated movies ever. It's stop motion, yet it's so fluid you could hardly guess that it was. Being masterminded by Tim Burton, it's not quite a Disney movie. It's innocent enough to be accessible to kids, but its bizarre artistic style make it look like Beetlejuice(it even comes with snakes that look like striped socks). The songs are well written, well sung, and quite catchy, and the fact that the main character is noble but not thoroughly so is another plus. It's hard to find fault with this movie for being so detailed. Except that it's kinda hard to become emotionally attached to any one character since all of them are so freakish. Oogie Boogie hardly ever comes across as being that menacing, and I don't see much of a need for him, since this movie is mostly about Jack trying to find the meaning of Christmas and then almost destroying it. But at any rate, narrative quibbles aside, this movie really is enjoyable, and more importantly, different.

I guess I should confess that to me, Tim Burton's films* have ranged from utterly sublime to rubbis, that Australia has no tradition of Halloween and I consequently don't understand it at all, that I don't like Christmas, that I watched the film with a toothache, and about five minutes later a friend just emailed me that he had as yet undisclosed awful news. So maybe 'Nightmare' was up against it.

Here is the problem for me. The film is technically awesome, well directed, the set designs are inventive and sometimes amazing, the whole LOOK of the film is quite breathtaking and unique. The almost operatic use of dialogue is terrific.

And on the other hand I thought it was boring. Quite honestly, I only sat through to the end because I wanted to finish it if I was going to review it. The story just did zero for me.

I can't even explain why it did nothing for me - why I admired it but just didn't like it. So the only sensible thing seemed to be to give it 4 stars for being amazing, and then take some off because I just didn't like it. But that made my dillemma deeper, because I did the sums, and if I gave it 2.5, it'd knock it off it's #1 perch right down to #4. And then a French film would be number one, and the CIA would start a file on me.

But hang it. That's how much I liked it. 2.5.

*though this is really a Tim Burton film in only limited sense anyway. It's based loosely on a poem he wrote, and he co-produced it, but didn't direct it.

I find this to be my favorite of Tim Burton's movies. It is original, and Danny Elfman did an perfect job on the songs. I watch it all the time.

This was probably one of the best movies ever created

It is very rare for me to watch a christmas film when it is not christmas. That is the beauty of this classic. I have alwayds been an avid Tim Burton fan. I study him when I make my own films...I want to make films like him one day. With NIghtmare before christmas, he spent years developing it. It has become not a childerns film. Not a chirstmas film. It has become a peice of entertainment...that can not be described. I am a high school student, a junior to be excat. The saddest thing is...more than half of my friends worship this film. Will be in the mild of April and start blasting out the lyrics to the songs. This is the one film I can watch all year around, with christmas themes. It deserves to be considered a Christmas classic, up in the ranks of The Grinch and Frosty. It's not your average christmas movie. It is dark, gothic..and almost the whole movie takes place in the Halloween setting. For parents, they might want to stress the themes of this film to their childern. How the main message is to not try to be some one your not. Also...this film does contain some scary images, as a warning.

My favorite animated film, and will probably stay that way forever. This movie is so disturbing, yet so wholesome, it's good. The music, the animation, the characters, settings. It's all just breathtaking to look at. The Halloween world is dark, twisted, with weird, twisted perspectives, making it look like it came out of the latest issue of JTHM. The real world looks normal, with some conformist houses, kids, etc. And Christmastown is bright, cheerful. It's great to watch when Jack goes into these different places, and how much he's in contrast with them. Anywho, it's good to watch all year long if you want. I know I do.

A brilliantly-filmed stop-motion movie with enough stunning character, lighting, and set design to be worth watching even if it were BAD.

And yet it ISN'T! This is a film most age groups will enjoy. Children will be fascinated by the mob of creepy and often bizarre animated monsters and the clever story, adults will enjoy the artwork, dark humor, quirky script, and sheer imagination. (Note: some scenes may be frightening or disturbing to small or sensitive children.)

The Nightmare Before Christmas takes you into the eerie workings of Tim Burton's brain, into a surreal setting where holidays are created by creatures from alternate worlds. Jack Skellington, feeling bored and restless after another successful Halloween, wanders accidentally into the world of Christmas, and soon he and his creepy cronies decide that it's their turn to inflict Christmas on the world.

Apart from the excellent visuals and scripting, the score is one of Danny Elfman's vintage works, with many rather twisted and highly enjoyable songs. An interesting note is that Elfman insisted on singing all of Jack's songs himself. (Jack's speaking voice was provided by Chris Sarandon.) Fans of the composer will enjoy hearing him sing, and the transition between the two voices is practically unnoticeable.

If the film has a weakness, it's only that the final confrontation between Jack and Oogie Boogie seems somewhat anticlimactic, after the myriad wonders and horrors which have preceded it. It's a very minor flaw, however.

And Nightmare is in the very unusual position of being a holiday film for two seperate holidays: the beginning may be pure Halloween, but the finale is pure Christmas.

The Nightmare Before Christmas is a film so stylistically unique that it defies imitation or description. Only seeing the film can give a true picture of it.

Stop-motion animation always amazes me. If you consider that for every frame, human hands had to change the puppets ever so slightly to create the illusion of movement, then even the "natural" bobbing of Jack's coat tails becomes a marvel in itself. You will want to watch the movie over and over again, just to catch a glimpse of all the strange occupants of Halloween town--each superbly designed and animated. Danny Elfman's music lives up to his reputation with such darkly humourous numbers as "Kidnap the Santa Claus" and "Oogie Boogie."