Frankenweenie

Admittedly less eccentric and more classic in style than some of Burton's acclaimed earlier works, Frankenweenie is still chock-full of the filmmaker's old dark magic.

... Frankenweenie beautifully merges the old with the new as it also celebrates filmmaking both literally and fictionally with its relatable protagonist.

Tim Burton's most enjoyable movie in a long time.

It was wise to make the film in black and white, and 3D adds to the charm of this sweetly retro experience. Sparky is hereby added to my list of the cinema's most endearing woofers.

An entertainment that is at once old-fashioned and supremely modern, liable to satisfy nostagic parents as much as their children.

Clinching the film's spell is its implied exhortation to the kid in each of us.

The stop-motion animation looks especially crisp in the film’s black-and-white world.

[Tim] Burton mixes in a love of horror movies with an innocently ghoulish sense of humor and harmless gross-out gags, capturing that childhood fascination with monster movies and the macabre.

Burton has set aside his usual, increasingly cloying commercial drives to tell a story that means something to him.

At its core, this is the story of a boy and his dog dressed up as a classic horror movie homage.