Frankenweenie (2012 film)

Frankenweenie is a 2012 American 3D stopmotionanimated neonoir horror film directed by Tim Burton. It is a remake of Burtons 1984 short film of the same name and is a parody of and a homage to the 1931 film Frankenstein based on Mary Shelleys book of the same name. The voice cast includes four actors who worked with Burton on previous films Winona Ryder Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands Catherine OHara Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas Martin Short Mars Attacks and Martin Landau Ed Wood and Sleepy Hollow.

Young filmmaker and scientist Victor Frankenstein Charlie Tahan lives with his parents, Edward Martin Short and Susan Frankenstein Catherine OHara, and his beloved dog, Sparky, in the quiet town of New Holland. Victors intelligence is recognized by his classmates at school, his somber nextdoor neighbor, Elsa Van Helsing Winona Ryder, mischievous, Igorlike Edgar E Gore Atticus Shaffer, obese and gullible Bob Robert Capron, overconfident Toshiaki James Hiroyuki Liao, creepy Nassor, and an eccentric girl nicknamed Weird Girl, but communicates little with them due to his relationship with his dog. Concerned with his sons isolation, Victors father encourages him to take up baseball and make achievements outside of science. Victor hits a home run at his first game, but Sparky, pursuing the ball, is struck by a car and killed.Inspired by his science teacher Mr. Rzykruskis Martin Landau demonstration of the effect of electricity on dead frogs, a depressed Victor digs up Sparkys corpse, brings him to his makeshift laboratory in the attic and successfully reanimates him with lightning. Seeing Weird Girls living cat, Mr. Whiskers, the undead Sparky escapes from the attic and explores the neighborhood. He is recognized by Edgar, who blackmails Victor into teaching him how to raise the dead. The two reanimate a dead goldfish, which turns invisible due to an error with the experiment. Edgar brags about the undead fish to Toshiaki and Bob, which, in panic of losing the upcoming science fair, inspires them to make a rocket out of soda bottles, which causes Bob to break his arm and Mr. Rzykruski to be blamed and fired due to his accused influencing and reviling the townsfolk for questioning his methods when he steps up for selfdefense. So, the gym teacher replaces Mr. Rzykruski. ........

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