I am a child of the 80's. Late 80's but 80's all the same. The one thing that I always looked forward to even more than Christmas was Halloween. Why Halloween? Well for one; you got candy, for two; you got to dress up ALL DAY, and three; Disney Channel played Frankenweenie.
The original Frankenweenie (1984) was only a half hour featurette done by the then not-so-illustrious Tim Burton (it ended up costing him his job at Disney Corp.). Basic story was a boy loses his pet (like we all do) and unable to cope with the loss he is inspired by science to bring him back to life akin to Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'.
Get the correlation? Frankenstein... Frankenweenie?
More often than not a childhood remake leaves you screaming at the sky for why they would make such STUPID casting/screen/editing/whatever choices, ultimately ruining your precious memory (I'm looking at you Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Indiana Jones and Spiderman). Thankfully with Frankenweenie (2012) this did not happen. It has been changed in a few respects but mostly lengthening the story from a half hour to almost an hour and a half, adding some more characters, and the most obvious, it's stop-action animation.
This review will be one without spoilers, so I won't go into HOW they lengthened the movie, what they added, etc. All I will say is that Frankenweenie was a beloved (at least to me) cult featurette and I'm ecstatic that today's generation will get to enjoy it as much as I did.
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