The Nightmare Before Christmas

(The Disneycember logo is shown, before showing clips from The Nightmare Before Christmas)

Doug (vo): It's the holiday classic, The Nightmare Before Christmas. Boy, talk about a film that only did okay at the box office but just exploded in cult merchandise. Every year around Halloween, you see this stuff advertised and, hell, every year around Christmas, you see it advertised as well. Somewhere, the appreciation of this film just went through the roof, and now, everybody loves to draw the characters, they love to sing the songs, it's so iconic. But, once again, I almost feel like that can backfire and build it up too much for audiences that might be expecting something else. In a sense, that's kind of what I went through when I first saw it, and I saw it when it first came out. It was advertised on TV, Tim Burton's name was plastered all over it, and it came out around the same time that movies like Aladdin, Lion King, and so many other animated groundbreakers came out. So, with that said, I thought there would probably be a few more adult jokes thrown in there. You know, like what they did with Robin Williams improvising and so on. But that's not the kind of movie it is. It's more a warped version of those stop-motion Christmas specials that you see every year, except dragged out to an hour-and-a-half.