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I love this movie and was shocked to learn that Tim Burton had almost no role in its creation because he thought stop-motion animation was too tedious. Henry Selick was the director and, while it was meant to look like Burton’s style, the genius behind this movie is Selick.

There's some interesting backstory that kind explains what Oogie's whole deal is (they made a video game about it). He used to have his own bug themed holiday no one cared about compared to Halloween and he was jealous of Jack's status as the Pumpkin King, so he sent his 3 lil idiot goons to kidnap Jack, but they kidnapped Sally instead. Jack went to save Sally and stop Oogie's plan, which is how Sally fell in love with him and why Oogie is scared of Jack but always looking to undermine him.

I think the main message of this movie is, you don’t have to abandon who you are in order to embrace something new. Jack wanted to stop being the Pumpkin King, just for a while, just to try something new, and completely be the Santa Claus role. And the people of Halloween Town had no ill-intent: they weren’t trying to ruin people’s Christmas because they’re mean. They genuinely meant well and thought people would love their gifts, because that’s the mindset that they are always in. Jack didn’t have to abandon Halloween in order to embrace Christmas; he could have just asked Santa to fly by Halloween Town and involve them in the holiday when the time came. Jack thought he had to be someone different to experience something different, and the movie seems to be saying he could still have embraced his identity of the Pumpkin King without having to take Santa’s title from him, they could have enjoyed it together, in their own ways. The same could be said in reverse; if the people of Christmas Town had tried to take over Halloween, it would be the most boring and cheerful Halloween ever, with people just giving away the candy and bringing joy and love instead of scares. They’d have been equally unsuccessful and co-opting another holiday. So the message seems to be to not stop being who you are, but it’s ok to be more too.

Tim Burton created the story and produced the film, but the magic was truly made with Henry Selick's direction and vision, complemented by Danny Elfman's extraordinary music, not to mention the StopMotion animators. It is one of my favorite movies of all time.

There's also a great message of accountability here! Jack could've used his good intentions as an excuse to justify the harm he caused (as so many of us do when we unintentionally hurt others), but instead the second he realizes what he's done he immediately sets out to begin trying to put things to right. That's character growth and it's a great lesson.

I love this movie. Danny Elfman singing as Jack is a life win. What a legend. Oogie boogie song is my favourite. I don't wait for Christmas or Halloween to watch this. I would watch it a few times throughout the year

Sally shows him what Christmas means in the beginning with her butterfly gift, but he doesn't notice.

This came out October 13th, so that makes it a Halloween movie and I refuse to believe otherwise 😂

Dont forget, it's not Tim Burton who directed this but Henry Selick

This movie was completely done in the stop motion / claymation style which for its time, is incredible. I highly commend people who work in the stop motion & claymation industries for the patience, work, and creativity that go into these movies!!

Something I think is really cool and interesting is that when you think about Jack and Sally, is that she is a rag doll which is typically made out of material/sponge type stuff while Jack is a skeleton so together they make a whole 'person' lets say. She doesnt have a skeleton and he doesnt have any material so its kind of like they are perfect and meant for each other..... Hopefully that makes sense!

damn, seeing the animation style for a 1993 film is still gold as ever... i was 6 yrs old when i saw this...

Me and my friends have seen this in concert twice. The Orchestra played the music to the film with Danny Elfman himself and including all of the original singers. It was such an incredible experience

This is my go to November movie, where you're not over Halloween just yet, but also ready to get into the Christmas vibe.

I love how this went from reluctance to having a ton of fun. I remember having a watch party of this in college with friends and roommates and it was great except for one chick who complained the entire time

I'm always in complete awe of this animation and how textured the clay is - it's like a moving painting and very Starry Night 🌃.

I watched it for the first time when I was 6, and I was terrified of Jack when he came out of the fountain. I had to pause it for hours until I had the courage to play it, and then became obsessed with it. I even bought clay to make my own jack puppet with interchangeable faces.

I just wanted to make a note of appreciating the effort that went into editing the songs in such a way that YT can still hear quite a bit of them in such a music-heavy film. I’m sure it was a lot of work and it’s absolutely appreciated. Bravo, guys!

This was my favorite childhood movie. It's so funny watching it as an adult because I now pick up a lot of things I missed when I was little, including how scary many of the monsters were! I hope you guys watch Coraline at some point; it's probably one of Henry Selick's best works!

one of the coolest things about this movie is that it's both a Halloween and a Christmas movie, so you get two holiday viewings in one! or at least I do haha ❤

The perfect Christmas movie as well as the perfect Halloween movie. It's also the last movie I watched with my little brother before he passed, so it's very special to me.

These guys are the best reactors. Period. I Watch damn near anybody I can to react to what I like, and you guys are always on it and have the best reactions each time

>goth girls have entered the chat

Im absolutely with the 4.5 ❤️‍🔥 ratings. Guys more than Jack wanting to make him happy the thing Jack thought was missing is Making others Happy. So he found this sandy claws is been doing that for kids and ppl and he thought let’s give him a vacation from it and give him a happy holiday and do his job for him and make sandy and rest of the world happy. That was Jack’s intention. Jack is just a Naive personality apart from what holiday he been assigned to him. So he wanted to do something nice the way he knew. According to him he did everything right he made tree, made sleigh, put on outfits, prepared gifts, … so u see he was being naive about the whole thing and when he realized it, he immediately made it right ❤ I absolutely love Jack Skellington he is just sooo Adorable with his intentions ❤ adore him completely. Just the way he fell down onto the angels hands is like, angels know he didn’t intent to harm or hurt anyone … he wanted to do smthn nice the way he knew and thought was the right way.. he’s limited like that. If Santa been assigned to do Halloween it would be disaster with jolly things .. bc Santa is limited like that. This just shows Jack ain’t a Bad Evil as a person u know… it is just what the kinda job he assigned that’s all. May be don’t judge anyone just by what they do may be there’s more to them. Tim burton have this absolutely incredible way of showing Beauty and Love and Innocence in What ppl stereotype as Ulgy, bad , and Evil. I love that about Tim burton movies ❤️❤️ such a genius ❤

Me: "I love watching movies with these old guys! " Me five minutes in..... "I'm 3 years older than them."

Fun fact: the actual story ends with an epilogue of sorts that says the narrator is a friend of Jack and Sally's and upon the narrators last visit, Jack and Sally had "six or seven skeleton children". It's audio'd by Sir Patrick Stewart! My sister and I used to listen to it while going to bed.

Jack's lament is my favourite song in the whole wide world! It has absolutely awesome lyrics, very poetic and the pronounciation of every single word from the wonderful singer is as clear as glass. Not to mention how much feeling and emotion he puts into his song. Stunning! ❤

It’s been a tradition for me to watch it around Halloween every year. This year I introduced it to ly daughter (10) and she loved it! Watch the making of somewhere on youtube. The amount of work and dolls are impressive!

[paraphrase] “I learned the next time I’m looking for happiness, I don’t have to look any farther than my own back yard!” Dorothy Gail - The Wizard of Oz

There's a video on here that was filmed at the Hollywood Bowl. They play the movie on a big screen but the real people who sang the songs do it live along with the movie. Danny Elfman, Peewee Herman, Catherine O'Hara, etc... Really fun to watch.

In terms of lessons, I always felt, especially as an adult, it was about discovering new joys, breaking away from the mundane repetitive life and trying something new. It might not always work, but you have to try.

I took my daughter to see this at the theater when it first came out. Now my granddaughter adores this film. We all watch it at Halloween and at Christmas. Enjoyed y’alls reactions as always.

Also! When you do Corpse Bride ☠️👰‍♀ (one of my absolute favourites and definitely my fave of Burtons), make sure to watch some behind the scenes/making of! It was one of the first of its kind and is really amazing to see 😊

Definitely brought me back to my childhood. When Oak said the movie was 30 years old, I felt so old. 😂

The voice for Dr. Finklestein was a grandpa in a previous movie, but it wasn't One Crazy Summer, it was Christmas Vacation.

The Oak, I cherish your theme analysis each time I watch you all reacting to films. I have seen this film many times, and you saying the theme made me have such a lightbulb moment, and I really needed to hear that. To summarize my scenario, I have always had turbulent Christmas holidays, but I always loved it regardless. Christmas and Halloween were my favorite holidays. Lately, within the past few years and as I grow older, I have been falling out of love with Christmas and dreading it more than liking it. My mindset has shifted to be more pessimistic because of how others around me respond to the holidays. Essentially my family broke apart and a new one formed in its place. But the newer ones are too serious about certain aspects of the holiday season regarding gifts. I know too many people who value gift-giving over everything else. They believe that if I don't get a lot of gifts for them, then I must not love them enough. If I don't get them expensive gifts, I don't love them enough, etc. And it has just drained the holidays for me and made me despise them so much. People go into literal debt over gifts that people don't appreciate and don't use in my current circle of people. As a disclaimer they are family members, so I can't just distance myself from them, I physically live with and care for them. I know it's not like this for everyone, but this has become my reality, and I can't stand it. For instance, one of them begged for a camera, and they wanted the latest expensive model. Because older models to this person would mean that you don't care enough. And it hasn't been used once...This item was at least taken out of the box to be looked at, which is more than most of the items purchased. I rewatched people reacting to How The Grinch Stole Christmas, and my mindset literally matched the Grinch's. I hate how people trample over others and fight one another to buy gifts (I've worked the nightmare: retail for the holidays). It's so disgusting to see "grown adults" acting in such a manner over material items. And I hate how far we strayed from the holidays being about family bonding and creating traditions instead of buying items, cards, having the best decorations on the block, etc. I didn't even want anything for Christmas this year, and I was forced to come up with items I wanted...I was treated like a horrible person because I said I didn't want anything. I'm a minimalist, so I value experiences over gifts. I would rather get food instead, go to a concert or the movies, than get an actual item. I would rather the money be spent on other things like vacations or important things like groceries. My mind just goes toward the negative with all holidays, and I feel like Jack Skellington toward the beginning of the film. Tired of the same old thing and wanting to be introduced to a new way of thinking. "Finding happiness in the same thing other people find happiness in." Has been a growing struggle for me. "You can't create your own happiness by stealing someone else's." Hit me in a way I wasn't expecting! In my scenario, I took it as I can't look outwardly at how others have warped my view of the holiday. I need to celebrate and reinvent it for myself and not allow other people's unhappiness to affect my mood toward the holidays.

Nice little fun fact. Jack Skellington is voiced by 2 people. One for the regular lines and another for the singing. Cathrine O'hara voices Sally and had to learn to sing for the roll, tim burton wouldnt hire a voice double.

So stoked for the holiday movie reactions!!! Here we gooooo!🎄☃️

I was 15 when this came out. The Gothic theme caught the hearts of many a teen girl while scary and funny parts appealed to the guys.

Was anyone else pissed that they did not give any credit to Henry Selick, the director of this film? They kept going on and on about Tim Burton when he wasn’t directly involved with this film! Henry Selick deserves the credit!

Heya, guys! A pleasure to watch you reacting this amazing film. One fun fact: Danny Elfman is the singing voice of Jack Skellington, Barrel (one of the trick-or-treaters) and The Clown with the Tear-Away Face. Because of this, they recorded Jack's singing parts first and then they cast a voice actor who could match Elfman's voice style. ¡Un abrazo desde Lima!

Take a shot for every time The Oak says that he never had any interest in something they react to, lol. I mean, I get that we've all got different interests, I'm just glad that he's broadening his taste now.

Another change is Terry Pratchett's Hogfathers. It has become one of my regulars.

Oh my gosh! I just realize that it been 30 years since The Nightmare before Christmas came out! Thats amazing! It's still THE movie to watch for BOTH Halloween and Christmas time. I LOVE this movie so much!

Loved this movie got to see it as a kid in the theater it was amazing

This isn't actually animation it's claymation. The same style all those Christmas specials like Rudolf The Red Nosed Reindeer and Frosty The Snowman was done in. This entire film was shot using stop motion with some animated things like Zero Jack's dog being animated in the traditional sense.

Since you guys love the doctor's voice so much... He played Uncle Lou in Christmas Vacation. He was also the dad in Mousehunt. The 'little red haired kid" was voiced by Paul Reubens, aka Peewee Herman. Maybe that's who you were thinking?

You ABSOLUTELY NEED to watch Klaus!! It’s an animated christmas movie on netflix. I JUST KNOW you’ll love it. Especially oak and answer

27:20 that did not just happen. They literally laughed at Wolfman crying. Bro. 🙀😱. I have no words. 😅

"Hes like a giant scary bag" took me out lol

I loved Nightmare Before Christmas when I first watched it. It wasn't scary at all despite how young I was at the time. In fact, Oogie Boogie was my favorite. I mean, he's terrifying.

Blink 182 - I Miss You Everyone knows it for the famous lyric and meme. “Where are you? And I’m so sorry?” But I remember this song differently. “We can live like Jack and Sally if we want to. Where you can always find me, and we’ll have Halloween on Christmas”

Oak made a great observation. Sally having visions is no coincidence: she can have prophetic dreams, as she is a ragdoll that is originally from the Sleep Realm. Recently was released a new official book about Sally, her origins and what happens right after Nightmare Before Christmas. It’s awesome! Totally recommend (Long Live the Pumpkin Queen).

Oh I absolutely love this movie. Way to make my morning, guys 😊 Going to get some tea and curl up in a blanket for this. I normally watch this movie every Halloween, but tons of people watch it around Christmas instead. Can’t go wrong!

Been looking forward to this one. I still remember watching it for the first time when I was about 5 and immediately loving it because Halloween is my favorite holiday but I also love Christmas. I watch it every year for either one and sometimes both lol. The stop motion animation is so cool. Tim Burton's art style is one of the best in my opinion. 💀🎄🎅

One of my favorite holiday movies of all time!

The mom from home alone voiced sally. I didn’t know that until very recently lol.

one thing i think is important to know; Jack is voiced by two different people! everyone talks about Danny Elfman's singing, they kinda forget his other voice: Chris Sarandon. that's right, Jack Skellington's spoken voice is Prince Humperdink!

Oh man, great one to start off with. Never been so early :D

Stop motion films like these have always amazed me. It takes so much time and patience to do the littlest movements. Hope you react to more of these stop motion films like Coraline, Corpse Bride, ParaNorman, and the very underrated FrankenWeenie.

The Oak looked a bit bored at the beginning but it's great to see how he fell into it.

This movie has alot of emotional value to me because when I was little, me and my brother would watch this movie every time we went up, and on our drive back home my grandpa had a CD of the soundtrack, and me and my brother would sing along to Jack, and Oogie, man those were fun times.

This movie is a masterpiece, I’m so happy you all have gotten to see it as adults! Henry Sellick and Danny Elfman really brought their magic to this. There are some making-of-the-movie specials on Disney+ you guys have Got to see! Thank you all for another entertaining and insightful reaction! 🎄

It's definitely a nostalgic film for a lot of people, I think when it released it hit a lot harder because it was the first of its kind and really went against the conventional Christmas "kids" story. It was child appropriate but dark, and is a great movie to watch both at Halloween and nearer Christmas! Watching it for the first time now probably doesn't carry the same weight it did back in the day, which I think is fair. It's certainly a staple in my house, alongside Home Alone, Lampoon Christmas and other little treasures 👍🏼

Definitely a Halloween-themed Christmas! 😁 So happy you guys are branching out to different genres, and you always have the best choices. I saw this with my sister when I was about 5 or 6 yrs old, and still remember my sister and I being traumatized by Oogie Boogie while our dad cackled in the background 🤣 Can sing all the songs by heart to this day. ❤ Extremely excited for your Twilight reactions by the way, I can't wait for you guys' discomfort bahahahah. Also, your thumbnail game is godly! Always makes me laugh 🤣

some say (a theory of sorts) that Frankenweenie, Corpse Bride and this movie (i think these are the 3 movies) are all linked (tell a story)

Aww guys I loved this reaction! I loved all the giggles and I was right there giggling with you hahaha 🤭😁 I never know whether to watch this at Halloween or Christmas so I tend to alternate, Tim Burton movies are just unique and make an impression that lasts a lifetime 😊

The Muppets Christmas Carol is still my favorite Christmas animation, but this definitely makes my top 3.

I like the Nightmare Before Christmas too because there is some meaning to the movie and it’s actually good. Which to be honest, like you guys I was a kid when this movie came out but never saw it because it seemed scary. I didn’t see the movie until I was a lot older, but it really shocked me that it was actually very nice, funny, and strangely charming and cute in a way. I’m a woman so not gonna lie but loved Sally and their love story too. It’s surprisingly wholesome and sweet.

Fun fact: the Oogie Boogie song was actually shortened slightly. After he said "I'm going to do the best I can" there was originally supposed to be a scene of Oogie Boogie dancing with the music backing, before it goes to the "Wooooah" part. Also, Tim Burton had no part in this movie, if I recall. They called it "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas" because Tim Burton wrote the original poem the movie was based on.

My fam and I always loved this movie, and I’m not into scary movies or gothic stuff. It comes off super creepy but it’s very charming and innocent ❤

Oh my goodness.... I am not sure why I didn't realize this was so old - 30 YEARS this year! It absolutely has stood the test of time. This is one of my son's all-time favorite movies - he has tons of memorabilia, sweatshirts, etc. Austin turns 26 this year - crazy to think this movie is older than my own son. I am not sure where the time went....

Hey guys. They used to do a reunion concert every year. (Bring back as many cast members as possible and do all the songs live.) You can find videos on KZfaq. I highly recommend checking those out.

The reason the story is so tight and condensed so well is because they made the movie based off of a poem. Solo the movie you seem short, it's actually adding and building more to the context of the poem

The mind of Tim burton came up with this movie as in the shops in September they start putting out Christmas decorations ect and then Halloween decorations so he thought it would be fun to combine the two. I thought that was pretty cool. It’s one of my favourite movies.

Stop-motion is made frame by frame. Henry Selick took over 100,000 photos of the models positioned fraction of an inch by a fraction of an inch to form every slide of this film. The dedication alone is astounding, let alone how smooth it is for the style and how visually impressive it is.

I think there’s also a good message about finding happiness in what you have instead of chasing what someone else has.

Sooo many things I want to add about this movie, especially dealing with casting choices to Disney's treatment of it. Two things i will say: 1. Tim Burton came up with the idea when he considered Rankin Bass Christmas specials from the perspective of the villain. 2. While Burton thought stop-motion was a tedious artform at the time, he grew to love it (see Vincent). Disney has wanted to make a sequel to NBC for years, but will only allow it in CGI. Apparently Burton had sway, because he refuses to agree to a sequel unless it is stop-motion.

This movie was so captivating as a child that my scaredy-cat butt wasn't even afraid of it. Jack's Lament is my favorite song, but This is Halloween and Kidnap the Sandy Claws come in at a close second

There was a deleted scene where when he’s running to save Santa, he trips over his own grave and realizes everyone thinks he’s dead…well, perma-dead

Now I have to look for my VHS tape of this movie. My aunt bought this for me when I was 8 or 9 and has been my favorite stop motion movie ever since

One of my favorite fan theories of this movie is that Jack is the Headless Horseman from the Legend of Sleepy Hallows

There’s a lot of messages, but I take it as appreciate what you have, he didn’t realize sally was there the whole time for him. Also, even though he failed with his plans, trying something new reinvigorated him and in the end still gave his people a new perspective

I am the same age as Answer and I can confirm all Disney VHS came in big plastic cases like that. Most of them were white so this one is special with black plastic. I had most of mine until a few years ago so this isn't a childhood memory.

i had a collection of 135 VHS tapes plus a VCR... but it was at a friends place and he passed away while i was nowhere near and so that whole collection is probably now in a dump somewhere... I am very sad about that😭😭 But great reaction as usual guys keep it up

I saw this in theaters as a kid and it blew my mind!

I watch this in Halloween and Christmas. Love the reaction guys! Keep crushing it!!

You guys should watch Corpse Bride!! It’s another Tim Burton movie and it’s so good!

Ah such a classic. I’ve got my own Jack Skellington hoodie!

This was my first movie that had Tim Burton attached and fell in love with Burton's movies since then. I was 100% the emo kid in middle and high school who was obsessed with Nightmare lol as far as whether it's a Halloween or Christmas movie: I have a Jack and Zero themed stocking and some various Halloween decorations so...both for me.

I love Danny Elfman's music, and him as Jack's singing is just perfection 🥰 🎃

Bro... at 14:35, I definitely die laughing everytime at how he sounds at this scene too lmao!! 🤣

I actually started a neat little tradition for myself in recent years. I start the movie at EXACTLY 11:47:10PM on halloween night, so that the moment Jack's hand touches the doorknob to Christmastown it turns to 12AM on november 1st! I think it's a nice little transition from halloween to christmas! A transition tradition :3

Just re-watched this movie yesterday with my Mom. One of my all time favorite movies...maybe because i was a 93 baby? I dont know how many times i rewatched this classic lol.

My favorite thing about this movie is at the Disneyland parks. Every year between Halloween and Christmas, they completely gut the Haunted Mansion ride and redecorate *everything* to be this movie. It's a brilliant and amazing ride and it boggles the mind how they manage to change every aspect of the ride!

So i caught the tail end of your HP journey…but I guess I have to join Patreon now because this is legit one of my all time favorite movies. If its NBC related i either own it or have it. We (my sister in law) and I go to see it every year in theaters. Such an amazing movie/theme

Henry Selick cried himself to sleep after watching this video

There's an episode of The Movies That Made Us about this one that is fascinating! Tim Burton actually didn't have a great deal to do with this, though the folks that made it certainly went deep into his ideas and style.

This is one of my favorite movies since childhood and the message that always stuck with me is to learn to be happy with who u are