The film is one of the few in his filmography that has a decidedly different tone and visual sense, and it might be part of the reason as to why it was so successful: for being so different from his usual thing. Big Fish might be the least Burton of the films on this list, even if it leans into his big of tricks in some moments. It's an ultimately heartwarming film that deals with accepting the shortcomings of your parents, while still being thankful for all the gifts they've given you. The movie follows a man as he attempts to decipher what from the life of his recently deceased father was fact and what was fiction. Big Fish is an incredibly personal work of Burton, as it was a book that he not only liked, but decided to adapt after the death of his own father (the death of a father is a main plot point of the novel). – Explore the Scientist’s lab at 9experiment.On the lower end of the Tomatometer is Burton's adaptation of the Daniel Wallace novel of the same name. To voice the lead role of the newly born - and aborning hero - 9, Acker couldn’t help but have in mind an actor who was so central to the film set he had worked on years earlier in New Zealand - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King star Elijah Wood. Armed with a giant kitchen cleaver and half a scissor blade, the none-too-bright muscle and enforcer of the group, 8, is created to help the others physically survive the dangerous post-apocalyptic world. To survive, she has adapted, finding the bones of a deceased bird and crafting her signature skull helmet. A fiercely independent adventuress she has been out patrolling the wasteland. As of 2021, this is the only adult animated film released by Universal Pictures Studios (Comcast proprietorship of Focus Features ) to date. A brave and self-sufficient warrior, 7, voiced by Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly, is the group’s sole female. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, and Christopher Plummer and it's based on Acker's Academy Award-nominated 2005 short film of the same name. Although reclusive and eccentric, his bursts of artistic inspiration through drawings made from his pen nib hands may be keys to help his fellow stitchpunk beings navigate their darkest hours. 6, the group’s visionary is voiced by Crispin Glover. He is also an apprentice of 2, with whom he shares a special bond. Reilly, 5 is a caring, nurturing engineer - the loyal, big-hearted ‘common man’ who always tries to play the peacemaker. Communicating visually, not verbally, 3 and 4 are the scholarly twins who voraciously catalogue everything they can see and find, recording and building a massive database for the group of the world that surrounds them and the history that led up to their creation. Director Shane Acker affectionately describes him as a ‘salty old dog’. An inquisitive personality, 2 is fearless. Voiced by Academy Award Winner Martin Landau, 2 is a kindly but now frail inventor and explorer who embodies the Scientist’s strong creative spirit. He is clever and sly, but also domineering, quick-tempered, and threatened by the new arrival of 9, whose higher intellect leads him to question authority. As the elder, he is the self-declared leader of the group. Voiced by one of the world’s most respected actors, Christopher Plummer, 1 is the Scientist’s first creation. As they’ll soon come to learn, the very future of civilization may depend on them. They must take the offensive if they are to survive, and they must discover why the machines want to destroy them in the first place. 'Corpse Bride' is just one of many of his productions set in that period. Tim Burton has a fondness for the Victorian age. Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good. Victor Von Dort from Corpse Bride Warner Bros. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. When 9 (The Lord of the Ring’s Elijah Wood) first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer and Crispin Glover and features the music of Danny Elfman. Visionary filmmakers Tim Burton (The Corpse Bride, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory) and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Nightwatch) join forces to produce wunderkind director Shane Acker’s distinctively original and thrilling tale. A new era in animated storytelling begins on 9.9.09. Seuss and Edgar Allen Poe, and a range of movies from B-horror films, German expressionist works and the films of Vincent Price.
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