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The Nightmare Before Christmas..
Delicious tale scares & delights
By Jacqueline Ayotte
The Battalion
"The Nightmare Before Christmas"
Featuring voices of Catherine O'Hara,
Chris Sarandon and Glenn Shadix
Directed by Henry Selick
Rated PG
Playing at Schulman VI
I t's decrepitly delightful, mortify-
ingly majestic and splendidly strange
Tim Burton's new stop-motion
animated holiday film, "The
Nightmare Before Christ
mas," cannot be de
scribed in simple, un
adorned terms.
The film itself
couldn't be further
from plain, nor
could its meticu
lous production,
its wondrously
created characters
or its clever fairy
tale- nightmare sto
ry line.
With the surreal
feel of "Edward Scis-
sorhands" combined with
the ingeniously produced
live-action animation of "Who
Framed Roger Rabbit," "The Nightmare
Before Christmas" signifies the season's
most spectacular movie-going experience.
The film is set in the "holiday worlds
of old," where every holiday has its own
town and all its townspeople prepare
year-round for their one special holiday.
In the ghoulishly delightful Hal-
loweentown, the skinny, skeleton-headed
Jack Skellington is the leading "Pumpkin
King."
He's growing bored of the same hum
drum holiday, Halloween, when he acci
dentally discovers Christmastown, a very
bright, loving and joyful place. This fes
tive town impresses him so much, he de
cides to kidnap Santa Claus and is deter
mined to "make Christmas" this year,
rather than Halloween.
Only Sally, a thoughtful, rag doll
who loves Jack from afar, envisions that
this could be a big mistake.
Chris Sarandon is the soulful sound
behind Jack's speaking voice, while
Danny Elfman provides Jack with a per
fectly melancholy singing
voice.
Though Jack may
apear to be skinnier
than a pair of chop
sticks and scarier
than a weathered
skull, his elegant
walk and won
drous voice re
veal indeed a
very fragile,
vulnerable and
caring side.
In addition,
Catherine O'Hara
speaks and sings
the part of Sally, the
lonely rag doll.
Although Sally can un
stitch her arm and come apart
at the seams in an instant, the fact that
she cares so much brings the feeling of
Christmas to Halloweentown.
With the addition of many strange
looking yet lovable characters, the
scenes come alive with musical wonder.
With utterly fascinating production
quality, humorously surreal characters
and a story line that scares, touches and
delights, "The Nightmare Before Christ
mas^ is a wondrous invention just wait
ing to be watched by anyone who loves
a twisted Christmas tale.
By Jacqueline Ayotte
The Battalion
"The Nightmare Before Christmas"
Music by Danny Elfman
Walt Disney Records
There's even more mystery in
store with a ghoulishly delightful
soundtrack of Tim Burton's "The
Nightmare Before Christmas."
Coinciding with the release of the
stop-motion animated film, the al
bum features ten wonderfully myste
rious songs and a score by Danny Elf
man, a renowned composer/song
writer and lead singer of the rock
group Oingo Boingo.
The soundtrack is a bizarre inter
pretation of an off the wall adventure.
Elfman's musical interludes are simi
lar to a delicately amusing Pink Floyd
sound, combined with a festive feel
ing of Christmas. Sound strange? It
is, but in a delightful way.
Children's two favorite holidays,
Halloween and Christmas, are
brought together by the voices of
Catherine O'Hara, Glenn Shadix,
Ken Page, Paul Reubens, Ed Ivory
and Danny Elfman.
This is one festive soundtrack
that's perfectly appropriate from the
scary days of Halloween to the jolly
days of Christmas.
Fatal Instinct s’ spool attempt sputters
‘Too much time lor too many allusions’
By Joe Leih
Young
The Battalion
"Fatal Instinct"
Starring Armand Assante, Kate Nelligan, Sean
Young and Sherilyn Fenn
Directed by Carl Reiner
Rated PG-13
Playing at Post Oak III
Director Carl Reiner has truly ventured
into the cultish underworld of the spoof
with his new film "Fatal Instinct."
He packs in a walloping amount of satiri
cal film references and breathes new life into
the meaning of ridicule.
Still, there is one small problem — it ain't
very funny.
With help from screenwriter David
O'Malley, Reiner smothers the humor by al
lowing too much time for too many allu
sions. The sheer quantity kills the underde
veloped comic ideas and the film looks busy,
rough and spread far too thin.
The story revolves around Ned Ravine
(Armand Assante), a cop/defense attorney
who is heroic but surprisingly dumb. His
wife Lana (Kate Nelligan) mercilessly takes
advantage of his lacking intelligence and
sleeps around, plotting to kill him for a hefty
life insurance policy.
Meanwhile, the oblivious Ned resists his se
ductive client, Lola (Sean Young), and ignores
his. infatuated secretary, Laura (Sherilyn Fenn).
The actors do attempt to shine through
O'Malley's overzealous slapstick with exces
sive overacting, but it's not funny or even
slightly amusing. In fact, they just look stiff
and strained.
However, "Instinct" is not completely void
of comedy. Scenes where a zealous law clerk
dives out a window and a distracted Ned is
hit by a bus do warrant some chuckles.
But overall, the gags lack the simple so
phistication of such classics as "Airplane"
and "Naked Gun."
"Instinct" just misses its comedy mark
— the laughs are seldom and very few.
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