Nightmare Before Christmas Review
10/27/21
By: Penny Guest-Scott
We are all getting in the Halloween spirit this time of year. So why not rate a classic Halloween movie? Introducing the Nightmare Before Christmas Movie Review! The main concept of this movie is of the Pumpkin King, Jack Skellington, discovering Christmas. And with discovering Christmas, he decides to take over and give Santa Clause a “break”. In the beginning of the movie we are first introduced to Jack Skellington with a ceremony and a song called “This is Halloween”.
Of course everyone adores Jack but he is thinking about how every year is the same and there is something missing. A bit before that we are introduced to Sally, the girl made by a mad scientist who just wants to see the world. And Sally runs off to a graveyard to hide from her creator after detaching her own arm to get away! Jack was also taking a stroll in the graveyard and started to sing yet another song called, “Jack's Lament”. Sally actually understands how Jack feels, but she had to go back to her creator to get her arm back. As for Jack, he keeps walking all night and somehow finds the doors to the holidays and the Christmas tree door attracts his attention. He falls down to see many bright colors and snow decorating the land! And he bursts into a song called, “What's this?” But then Jack sees the Jolly old Santa. Then we are visited with the Mayor looking for Jack very worried. Surprisingly… Jack comes back! With many tales of Christmas Town and how he wants to create his own Christmas. He calls a town meeting, so Sally poisons her creator to go to this meeting.
Then Jack assigns everyone jobs to make his Christmas come true! Jack tries to figure out his Christmas with experiments, ALL night! And Sally sneaks out to bring him a gift basket! But Sally has a terrible vision of Jack’s Christmas going up in flames and destruction. She tries to tell Jack the next day but he won’t listen. Jack assigns three children who are VERY loyal to the Boogie Man to bring Santa to Jack. But instead they kidnap Santa and bring him to the Boogie Man. As preparations begin to make Jack’s dream come true he has no idea what the Boogie Man is doing to poor Santa! The night finally arrives and everyone is excited and ready! Jack has his outfit, his “reindeer," and the sleigh, now all he has to do is deliver the presents! Jack begins delivering presents to the children, but to our surprise (not really though) the children's presents are attacking them! Jack of course doesn’t know about this but the military sure does.
So they start shooting at Jack and he realized that his Christmas wasn’t giving anyone joy. He got shot down from the sky into a graveyard and he began to realize that he didn’t need to change he was the Pumpkin King! And Jack knew how to make things right again by saving Santa from the Boogie man. So he goes to the Town of Halloween and tries to find the boogie man. Soon he found Santa, and Sally was there too! Apparently she got captured as well trying to save Santa. The boogie man tried to kill Jack! But he failed and Jack freed Santa and Sally. Santa soon started to fix Christmas! Also Jack came back! When Santa comes by it starts to snow! Everyone bursts into joy and plays in the snow! Sally walks off into the same graveyard where Jack had the idea to take over Christmas, Jack joins Sally on the curvy hill and they fall in love! What a happy ending, I must see! You can watch this movie on Disney if you were wondering.
About the Contributor
Penny is an 11 year old girl, who enjoys Genshin Impact, videos games, anime, drawing, and music. Penny wants to have a job involved in the arts someday.