Review of Frankenweenie (2012) by Abefiletti — 26 Oct 2020

Frankenweenie is solid. Until the last minute it was really good. I love all the references to the classic monsters. The characters are overall great as well. It also has it's tear jerking moments as well.

Any kid who has lost their dog would understand. You want to bring it back but you can't. I love the concept too. I mean who wouldn't want to bring their pet back to life. But that last minute made me mad.

I haven't talked spoilers so far but now I will. You have been warned. At the end of the movie Sparky saves Victor from the burning windmill, but then Sparky gets dragged back in to the crumbling building by the vampire cat.

The cat gets stabbed by a wood stack falling from the building and the building crumbles on Sparky. Sparky dies for the second time. Victor is sad a gives the corpse of a the dog a big hug saying that he'll always be in my heart, which was the lesson he didn't learn the first time his dog died.

He learned that even though his dog isn't next to him, he'll always be there. That is when the movie should have ended. But they had to bring him back anyways! It makes me so mad this scene. What a great movie brought down by this ending.

I give it a 7/10 and that's me being generous.