Is it a Christmas movie or is it a Halloween movie? These were the questions I asked people when I asked them to categorize The Nightmare Before Christmas. This movie was released in 1993 and was a full-length stop motion film.

This movie begins in my most favorite possible way. It doesn't start with some boring character development backstory or scene from the main character's past, which gives them some emotional connection to another main character. Instead, it starts with a short, two-sentence explanation of where holidays come from... and then we get our first song.

Even though “This Is Halloween” is the first thing most people think about when I mention this movie, I can agree that it makes a great opening scene. However, it isn’t the best song. That award would have to go to “Kidnap The Sandy Claws.” This song appears in the middle of the movie and it has a sick beat and instrumentals.

Other than my meaningless opinions about what song is the best, there is still my meaningless praise about which scene is the best. In my own personal opinion, the best scene would have to be when Jack gets shot out of the air and the mayor goes around the town of Halloween announcing his death. In reality, though, he wasn’t dead.

For being a stop motion movie, The Nightmare Before Christmas was a lot better than some of the others I have seen. Overall, it has good pacing, character development, and fan theories to go along with it. My personal favorite fan theory is that Zero is actually the dead dog from Frankenweenie.