The Nightmare Before Christmas (Three-Disc Combo: Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Copy) [3D Blu-ray]

It didn’t come with the slipcover in the picture and the insert holding the disc is broken.

I let a friend borrow my old copy and never got it back. Therefore, I purchased this version. Much nicer colours and contrast than the one I lost.

Arrived early and great gift for my girlfriend

This movie is a Tim Burton classic, nothing else needs to be said. Amazing movie!

The younger kids enjoyed this. I understand it’s a cult favorite. Parents had mixed feelings.

It's alright.

What a great film for Blu-Ray! Crammed with detail and composed like a series of paintings, it demands the high-definition treatment to fully appreciate. On one hand, the scenes are filled with little surprises like tarantula- and bat-shaped neckties and snakes, but on the other hand they are so artistic! Once you watch Jack Skellington's operatic posings against the moon at 1080p, or see the eerie gray backgrounds of Halloweentown or the vivid colors of Christmastown at that resolution, I can't imagine watching this movie any other way.But that's not all there is to it. In fact, "The Nightmare Before Christmas" is a feast for the eyes, ears and imagination; a delectable witches' brew of stop-motion animation, catchy show tunes and a seriously warped creative license.The story -- Halloweentown attempts to annex Christmastown -- comes from the macabre mind of producer Tim Burton, who wrote it in his spare time (as a poem!) while working as a Disney animator in the 1980s. The movie blends the tastiest bits of Burton's earlier  Beetlejuice  and  Edward Scissorhands  with a sprinkling of the stop-motion magic first found in Disney's 1961  Babes in Toyland. The imaginative cast of characters includes:* Jack Skellington (the Pumpkin King) (Chris Sarandon), a mischievous misfit who believes his purpose in life is to merge the holidays of Halloween and Christmas.* His faithful dog Zero, a ghost with a glowing, jack-o'-lantern nose who, like the hound in  How the Grinch Stole Christmas , eventually pulls the sleigh.* Rag-doll heroine Sally (voiced by Catherine O'Hara), Jack's love interest, who sews herself back together when she loses a body part.* Oogie Boogie (Broadway veteran Ken Page), a slimy, singing bag of bugs who channels the cartoon version of Cab Calloway in the old  Betty Boop  shorts.* Lock (Paul "Pee-Wee Herman" Reubens), Shock (O'Hara) and Barrel (Danny Elfman, the film's composer), a trio of evil trick-or-treaters who "kidnap the Sandy Claws"* Wheelchair-bound evil scientist Dr. Finklestein (William Hickey), a duckbilled quack whose flip-top head lets him scratch his brains for inspiration.* A mayor (Glenn Shadix, the interior director Otho in  Beetlejuice ) who is literally two-faced.Director Henry Selick painstakingly created the film over three years. Though he had a production crew of over 100, each minute of footage took a week, as each second required 24 ever-so-slightly different shots.Devilishly nonconformist, "The Nightmare Before Christmas" is an enduring holiday musical for the whole Addams family, or at least those older than, say, 6. Though all of its fright gags are played entirely for laughs, some of the imagery is downright creepy. Teenagers will love it.BONUS FEATURES* An audio commentary with Burton, Selick and Elfman.* A downloadable digital copy of the film, which you can transfer to an iPod or similar device.* Burton's first short, 1982's 6-minute "Vincent," a black-and-white stop-action film about a boy who dreams of being Vincent Price, who narrates.* Burton's 1994 Disney live-action short "Frankenweenie." In this 30-minute black-and-white film that re-imagines the Frankenstein story as the tale of a young boy and his car-struck pet dog in suburban America (introduced by Burton himself).* A reading of Burton's original "Nightmare Before Christmas" poem by actor Christopher Lee* A promotional film for the annual "Nightmare" makeover of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion.* Promotional and making-of featurettes, a storyboard to film comparison, deleted scenes and theatrical trailers and posters.OTHER VERSIONS AVAILABLEThere are two other new "Nightmare" DVDs available -- a two-disc  standard-resolution  set that includes a downloadable digital copy and a  collector's edition  that comes with a hand-painted bust of Jack Skellington.

The Nightmare Before Christmas is one hour and sixteen minutes and was released in theaters on October 15, 1993. The movie was initially to be released through Disney Studios, but the powers that be though that Nightmare was and I quote "too dark and scary for kids". Jack Skellington, The Pumpkin King, has just finished another Halloween and is depressed because it is the same old scare year after year; though the residents of Halloween Town enjoy it very much. Jack is looking for that something in his life and goes wondering off into the woods and find the holiday trees of Valentine Day, Easter, Saint Patrick Day, Thanksgiving, Halloween and Christmas. Each tree is a portal to that town and he accidently opens the Christmas Tree's portal door and gets sucked into Christmas Town. Jack is amazed at what he sees in Christmas Town; Christmas Town is the exact opposite of Halloween Town. In Christmas Town everybody is happy, building toys, and the smell of pie is everywhere. When Jack comes back to Halloween town and calls a town meeting, he tries to explain Christmas to the resident but the residents just cannot grasp it.Jack heads home and stays lock up in his lab trying to use a scientific approach to understand Christmas as well as performing experiments. Finally Jack is able to solve the problem about Christmas and announce to the residents of Halloween Town, who are witches, ghosts, vampires, zombies and bunch of other scary residents, that Christmas is ours this year. The only thing wrong with this picture is that the people who live in Halloween Town have live a life of scaring, doing creepy things, and being evil. They are unable to grasp the goodness of Christmas, but they do their best to try. The sleigh that Jack drives is coffin shaped and is pulled\flown by three skeleton reindeers; just to give you and example. Jack sends Lock, Shock and Barrel to snatch Santa Claus and bring him to Halloween Town. The three are able to find Santa Claus and hand him over to Oogie Boogie who begins to taunt him. Meanwhile Jack, along with his ghost dog Zero, flies off into the night sky with his bag of scary toys to hand out to the children of the world.Jack plans backfires when the parents inform the police of the phony Santa Clause and Jack's sleigh and reindeers are shot down from the sky. Jack realizes what he has done and head back to Halloween Town to rescue Santa Clause and set everything straight. Jack discovers that Santa Claus is held captive by Oogie Boogie and that Oogie Boogie is about to kill Santa Claus and Sally. Jack is able to rescue Santa Clause and Sally and defeats Oogie Boogie. In the end Santa Claus is able to restore Christmas and out the end of the movie it begins to snow and the residents begin to sing their version of What's This. Not since Mad Monster Party came out in 1967 has there been a stop motion picture been made; though I could be wrong. The Nightmare Before Christmas gets an AAAAA+++++.DVD EXTRASChapter SelectionsSet UpA. Spoken LanguagesB. Captions and SubtitlesC. Return To FilmBonus MaterialsA. Theatrical TrailerB. Additional TitlesPlayVHS EXTRASPreviews1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs2. D2 The Mighty Ducks3. Gargoyles

Jack Skellington, der große Zampano in der Welt von Halloweentown, hat die Nase langsam gestrichen voll. Jedes Jahr erwarten seine Mitbürger ein grandioses Fest, möglicht originell und wollen am Ende doch nur immer den gleichen Kram wie jedes Jahr. Während er nach einer weiteren "qualvollen" Halloween-Nacht so vor sich hin sinniert, stößt er im Wald auf eine Reihe Türen, die in verschiedene andere Feiertagswelten führen und betritt die ins Weihnachtsland. Dort ist alles so faszinierend anders, dass er beschließt, dieses Jahr selbst den Weihnachtsmann zu geben und dem Fest der Feste eine besonders schaurige Note zu verleihen. Dazu muss jedoch erst einmal der eigentliche Hauptdarsteller der Heiligen Nacht, der Weihnachtsmann, aus dem Weg geräumt werden, Geschenke müssen her und irgendeinen Schlitten braucht man ja auch noch. Aber noch wichtiger: Werden die Menschen diese Scharade mitmachen?Im Kern ist "Nightmare before Christmas" natürlich eine herrliche Analogie zum Theme "Stillstand und Dynamik", für die man aber durchaus ein gewisses Alter braucht, um sie wirklich erfassen zu können. Die Freigabe "ab 6" geht theoretisch in Ordnung, aber unter 12 Jahren braucht man für den eigentlichen Gehalt des Filmes gar nicht erst anzufangen. Ich würde sogar so weit gehen, zu behaupten, dass sich kleinere Kinder sogar akut langweilen (wahrscheinlich weniger gruseln) würden. Auch als Erwachsener hat man mit einigen Längen zu kämpfen, denn Disney-typisch wird eben viel gesungen und die Texte sind, zumindest in der deutschen Variante, nicht wirklich prall. Auch die Melodien der Songs empfinde ich nicht als die Elfman-typischen Ohrwürmer, aber über derartiges Empfinden kann man immer streiten. Dafür finde ich den eigentlichen Soundtrack abseits des Gesanges richtig gut.Der eigentliche Held des ganzen Streifens ist seine grandiose Technik und die liebevolle Inszenierung Halloweentowns. Beides strahlt eine immense Zeitlosigkeit aus und auch im Jahr 2022 wirken die Animationen frisch und sehr gut gealtert - nicht so, wie es bei den ersten computeranimierten Filmen waren, die heute wie Relikte wirken. Hier wird der eine oder andere sicher auch in 30 Jahren noch von einem technischen Meisterwerk sprechen.Zur Technik: Das Bild ist einwandfrei, der deutsche Ton in DTS 5.1 fällt nicht hochgradig voluminös aus und bietet auch nur recht wenige Raumeffekte. Das ist nicht schlimm, aber man darf mal wieder etwas neidisch auf die Dolby-TrueHD-7.1-Spur der OV lauschen. Überhaupt gilt: Wer der englischen Sprache mächtig ist (und nicht nur auf die manchmal grausam übersetzten Untertitel vertraut), schaut bitte die Originalfassung. Die Extras erfreuen die Fans, u.a. findet man einige Einblicke in die Entstehung des Filmes und die Macher ließen sich auch zu einigen Audiokommentaren herab.Gewöhnungsbedürftiger Gesang, aber die herrlichen Animationen und das sichtbare Herzblut der kreativen Köpfe dahinter reißen es wieder heraus.

I would have given it 5 stars but for the fact it's only 73 minutes long. I could really have done with a bit more of this fantastical unworldly content. I think the music and score, (singing also) done by Danny Elfman was secnd to none, his contribution was unmistakable. The storyline was clear cut and concise, easy to follow and well resolved, I think father Christmas could have had more footage at the end. The characters were so well defined, they really came to life, I liked the scientist, and I'm not sure why he was called evil, I saw no evil acts but he was darned ugly! The scenery was unlike anything I'd seen before, and the creative genius (I use that word carefully) involved in hoiday towns, amazing!Every aspect of the film was so good and enjoyable, the only fault is the length, which may be an unfair crisicism due to the extraordinary hard work that needed to go into its making. A ground breaker in every way.

A lovely story, showing its age a little, and enjoyable.Poor Jack just wants to do something nice and different. However, it turns bad but things are soon sorted.Lovely story for Halloween or Christmas.

My son loves jack so I bought it to go in his Xmas Eve box come quick can't wait to watch it Xmas Eve .

Superb. Excellent transfer to blu-ray, lovely little extras such as Vincent (later made into full length movie) and an all round joy. Disney were (no joke intended) too afraid at the time to release it under the Walt Disney Pictures banner, so passed it to Touchstone Pictures. A treat from Halloween to Christmas.