大好きな科学に夢中になるあまり、友達が一人もできない少年ヴィクター。そんな彼を両親は心配していたが、ヴィクターは愛犬スパーキーを相棒にして楽しい毎日を送っていた。しかし、思いも寄らぬ事故が起きて、スパーキーは天国へと旅立ってしまう。深い悲しみに沈んでいたヴィクターだったが、次第にスパーキーをよみがえらせたいという強い気持ちを抱くように。少しばかり危険な科学な知識を駆使してスパーキー蘇生に成功するが、その姿はつぎはぎだらけで、まるでフランケンシュタインのようだった。
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監督: ティム・バートン
脚本: John August / ティム・バートン / Christian De Vita
音楽: ダニー・エルフマン
制作: Don Hahn / ティム・バートン / Allison Abbate
撮影監督: Peter Sorg
制作会社: Tim Burton Productions
Good stuff, unmistakably Tim Burton. <em>Frankenweenie</em> is a solid stop-motion horror film from Disney. Interesting plot, coupled with a suitable cast and untypical animation. It's also in black-and-white, which doesn't hamper things at all - I, in a weird sort of way, kinda forgot it was b/w for vast portions. Charlie Tahan voices the lead character, Victor Frankenstein. You also have well-known names in Winona Ryder (Elsa), Martin Short (Edward) and Catherine O'Hara (Susan). I also liked Martin Landau as Rzykruski. There's decent humour amongst those characters, too. Worth a watch, for sure.
This time it's the Frankenstein story that gets the Tim Burton treatment delivering us an hybrid of "Edward Scissorhands" (1990) and Karloff's "Frankenstein" (1935) with a little pooch throw in for good measure. It's the eponymous mutt that gets hit by car whilst fetching a baseball hit, surprisingly, out of the park by his young master "Victor". Distraught, the scientifically minded youngster concocts a cunning plan to use the attic windows, some toy seahorses and loads and loads of lightning to bring "Sparky" back from the dead. What now ensues is quite a fun series of escapades as the young man resurrects his friend and tries to keep it a secret from his schoolmates ahead of a looming science fair that causes his friends to try to mimic his skills and create monstrous mayhem en route. The monochrome stop-motion animation (especially their eyes!) and typically fun Danny Elfman score make for an effective comedy-horror and it is hard not to engage with the reincarnated patchwork puppy. Their rather menacing science teacher "Rzykruski" reminded me of Christopher Lee, too. It's a quickly paced and engaging tale with a gentle morality to it - love, loyalty, friendship all feature strongly in a narrative that goes some way to illustrate how, illogically sometimes, people can become attached to their pets. Good fun, this film.
