This comprehensive 434 page book is grouped into thirteen chapters that examine common themes in Burton's work, from his fascination with clowns to his passion for misunderstood monsters, to his delight in the oddities of people. The Art of Tim Burton is the definitive compilation of forty years of Tim Burton's artistry, including film concepts and hundreds of illustrations from his personal archives, edited under the creative guidance of Burton himself. They are always a lot of fun.Over 1000 illustrations and 430 pages plus foldouts. If for nothing else, go see it for the visual effects. But how is this kid going to learn anything about the mortality of mankind? That we will all return to dust? Yeah, this story isn't very good. ![]() What the heck? If there is anything Tim Burton is good at, it's making us accept death's inevitability in a creative fashion as we saw with something like Corpse Bride. And on top of that, the dog actually does live in the end. The white cat looks like a flying monkey mixed with a bat along with a Godzilla turtle and for lack of a better term "Gremlins". ![]() Not only do we have new resurrected animals, they are these weird mutations that dont make sense. Then you have the climax, which is the real downer. It's your pre-Oz black and white world with a lot of realistic looking gimmicks. Though I will say the animation here is pretty good. The side characters are animated more like Burton fan-fiction than anything for a movie and just have nothing going for them. However, I never quite got the resurrection of the dead factor in it and when this story wasn't predictable, it was flat out offbeat and just boring. It's your typical pet-gets-killed-kid-misses-it-and-then -pet-returns movie with a pretty cool scientific experimentation to it. I expected this to be so much better, instead what I got was really underwhelming. And then the movie changes the rules relatively late in the game only to reference classic horror movies, but sadly without paying homage to Boris Karloff. For example, we are told that Victor is a weird kid but compared to the grotesques inhabiting his neighborhood, he is remarkably well-adjusted. ![]() But as you could tell from some of his other films, Burton has not matured as a filmmaker over the years, and it definitely shows here, especially in his reliance on gross out humor. ![]() I'm not saying that Tim Burton should not have extended his animated short "Frankenweenie" to feature length, as the bond between boy and dog is eternal. And then Victor shows that he was actually paying attention in science class by putting some of that knowledge to practical use. All goes well at first as Victor gets a hit in his first at bat, until tragedy strikes. Concerned, his father aims to change that by having Victor playing baseball. But as it turns out, Sparky is about his only friend. "Frankenweenie" starts with Victor showing his parents his latest epic film starring his dog Sparky.
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