"Burton and his collaborators present a movie musical that's like nothing you've ever seen." - Orlando Sentinel
"Burton, the man who gave us Batman, Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands, is incapable of a conventional idea. His take on the holiday fairy tale is delightfully off the wall." - Philadelphia Inquirer
"Visually a macabre knockout, this 75-minute fantasy boasts some of the wittiest, most vigorous stop-motion animation effects in the history of the process."
"Originally conceived in the early 1980s as a 30-minute TV special, it's been expanded by screenwriter Caroline Thompson ("Edward Scissorhands," "The Secret Garden") into a mock epic in which the year-end holiday universe, balanced so carefully between the darkness of Halloween and the radiance of Christmas, comes unglued." - Seattle Times
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