Frankenweenie 2: Bride of Frankenweenie

Frankenweenie 2: Bride of Frankenweenie is an American 3D stop motion dark fantasy film produced by Tim Burton, the producer of The Nightmare Before Christmas and directed by Walt Becker and Duke Johnson and was released on October 13, 2017. It was written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, and executive producer by Derek Frey, Rick Heinrichs and John G. Scotti with original music provided by Danny Elfman. The film, like its predecessors, received generally positive reviews from critics and the public.

Plot
The film begins one year after the events of the previous film, in New Holland park after which Victor, Sparky having fun while including the new girl in school, Cynthia, who had moved to new Holland. However one Day while Sparky, Victor, Elsa and Persephone are playing fetch in the park, Persephone is struck by a car and killed while pursuing the ball, much like how Sparky was one year previously. Depressed and broken-hearted, Elsa spends the next few days locked in her room crying her eyes out over Persephone’s death. Eventually Elsa goes to Victor’s house to speak to him, after interrupting a card game between him and Edgar, Elsa asks for their help by resurrecting Persephone the same way he did to Sparky. Needless to say Victor is taken aback by this request, not only because there might be a risk of something going wrong, but mainly due to the fact that he promised his parents that he wouldn’t do anything like that ever again. However, after seeing the look of desperation in Elsa’s eyes, Victor eventually concedes to Elsa’s request and agrees to bring back Persephone. That night, Victor once again assembles his makeshift laboratory in the attic while Edgar and Elsa break into the Pet Cemetery and dig up Persephone's corpse, unaware that they were being watched by the new Cryptkeeper named Mr. Karloff, who then follows them to Victor’s house. After fixing Persephone’s body, a storm begins to rage as the final preparations are made to bring her life. Lightning then strikes the kite sent up by Victor, sending electricity through her body. Edgar and Elsa then lower her onto the table and realize their success, with Elsa happily saying "She's alive! Alive!" However, little do they know, Mr. Karloff had actually witnessed the whole experiment from outside. At first Victor and Elsa agree to keep Persephone a secret and keep her in Victor’s attic, however, Edgar once again lets slip out what they done and tells Cynthia, Weird Girl, Bob and Toshiaki about the experiment. However, learning from their mistakes from the first time, they agree to keep Persephone a secret. Meanwhile Mr. Karloff is secretly performing his own experiments with some of the animals he dug up from the Cemetery, during the next thunder storm he resurrects Nibbles the Demonic Rabbit and Bubbles the Alien Glowfish and keeps him in a cage inside the tomb of Colossus. Elsa’s father sneaks into Victor’s house and discovers Persephone in the attic and is startled, causing Persephone to flee with Sparky close behind her. While Victor, Elsa and their parents search for the two dogs while he makes a phone call to someone in New York to try and sell his creation and Victor’s secret to a mysterious buyer who demands that he create more creatures and send him footage on the experiment first. Suspecting that there is something going on, completely unaware that everything has been witnessed by Cynthia who was walking by the Pet Cemetery at the time. Mr Karloff is filming the last few touches of his newest experiments and brings back a Hedgehog named Prickly who mutates into a hulking Hyde-Hedgehog, a cat becomes deformed on one side and becomes a “Phantom Cat”, a frog becomes gigantic claws and becomes a "Zombie-like Demon Frog" and a Python who splices with a fly and becomes a gigantic “Snakefly”. Karloff makes another phone call to his mysterious buyer, unaware that Nassor shoots all the bars of his cage and begins setting the other creations free. The monsters then break loose into the town and they start causing havoc in order to escape, After finding Sparky and Persephone in the park, Victor and Elsa hear screaming from the Town Hall and go to investigate. Lead by Nibbles, Karloff’s creations are attacking the citizens of New Holland, Cynthia manages to find Victor and Elsa and tell them what she saw Karloff do. Karloff waits for the sees Persephone so that he could sell her to his mysterious client. As expected Persephone arrives and Karloff kidnaps her, during Nassor scepter's chaos and takes her back to the Pet Cemetery. Holding Persephone hostage in his laboratory, After everyone fights back the creatures, Toshiaki and Edgar shoots fireworks at Shelley and the Were-Rat, Bob shoots salt water hose at Sea Monkeys and Weird Girl grabs a wooden stake from the windmill and throws it at Mr. Whiskers. The other creations then flee. however, unbeknownst to anyone Victor and Elsa had followed Persephone to the Cemetery and are aware of what is going on. Suddenly witnessing the Snakefly, Alien-like Glow Fish, Zombie-like Demon Frog, Hyde Hedgehog and Nibbles entering the Cemetery, Sparky suddenly draws its attention and leads the creature into the tomb, after which that the Snakefly notices his creator before Nibbles fights in a fit of rage, thus allowing Victor and Elsa to run in after and free Persephone. Karloff’s pet Raven witnesses his master’s struggle with the Snakefly, saying, "Nevermore!!!", Victor struggles Nassor for final confrontation and then he sets off some explosives Nassor and Colossus of death set earlier in order to get rid of any evidence and dies along with Karloff, Hyde-Hedgehog, Nibbles, Zombie-like Frog Demon, Alien Glowfish and the Snakefly in the explosion and escape the tomb. However, Victor's parents, some friends witnesses to run to Victor, Elsa, Sparky and Persephone but they alright but then they are reunited. The film then ends in the town of New Holland which Sparky has become somewhat of a town celebrity due to his heroic actions and his condition of a being re-animated creature. Despite the constant flocking of tourists and pursuit of autographs, Sparky and Victor always try to get away from the hassle and spend some time with their friends, Cynthia, Toshiaki, Weird Girl, Phantom Cat, Edgar "E" Gore, Bob, Victor's parents, Susan and Edward Frankenstein, Mr. Burgemeister ,and the teacher, Mr. Rzykruski, and the Gym Teacher at last but least Sparky and Persephone riding through town in a wagon with a banner that reads "Just Married"   and surrounded by confetti tossed by Victor, Elsa and the other kids, however little do they know that the Invisible Fish are come back from the dead along with Phantom Cat is hiding in the shadows after surviving the chaos giving the audience a wink. After which some lightning forms the words "The End."

Rating
The movie is rated PG in both U.S and U.K by MPAA and BBFC, respectively. The movie was rated PG for brief scary images and thematic material, sequences of peril and creature action/violence.

Trivia

 * It is the first Disney's Walt Disney film since 2016's Alice Through the Looking Glass to be James Bobin also development was The sequel to The Nightmare Before Christmas and The remake of Dumbo.
 * The characters from the movie will have the same design by Tim Burton, company of Walt Disney
 * The movie shares the same original and remake, which the movie is based on.
 * A new girl in school in New Holland was Cynthia he likes Victor but she understand Victor he loves Elsa, I think Cynthia is be Victor's friend.
 * Sparky will die as well by sacrificing his life to kill the main antagonist name Karloff the Cryptkeeper, but he, however, is brought back to life.

Cast:

 * '''Charlie Tahan as Victor Frankenstein, a main protagonist a boy in New Holland, next sequel he be married turn Elsa's husband.
 * Frank Welker voice effects of Sparky, Zombie-like Demon Frog, Raven
 * '''Winona Ryder as Elsa van Helsing, to next sequel she be married , be Victor's wife.
 * '''John Kassir as Mr. Karloff the Cryptkeeper, the main antagonist, Elsa's father, he tell about what happened Elsa's mother.
 * Atticus Shaffer as Edgar "E" Gore be a good side and friend he promised Victor, never tell anybody.
 * Martin Short as Edward Frankenstein, Victor's father /  Mr. Burgermeister / Nassor, the secondary antagonist
 * '''Chloë Grace Moretz as Cynthia a new girl of school, meet Sparky and Victor Frankenstein, is friend of Elsa Van Helsing.
 * Martin Landauas Mr. Rzykruski'''
 * '''James Hiroyuki Liao as Toshiaki is to be good side join Victor Frankenstein like friend or frenemie.
 * '''Robert Capron as Bob is a classmate of Victor he join with him for defeated all monsters.
 * '''Catherine O'Hara as Susan Frankenstein, Victor's mother / Gym Teacher/ Weird Girl classmate but turn good she sad about Mr Whiskers death.
 * Jemaine Clement as New York Business Man
 * Conchata Ferrell as Bob's mother
 * Tom Kenny as Fire Chief / Soldier / Townsfolk
 * '''Dee Bradley Baker voice effects of Persephone, Snakefly, Phantom Cat, Hyde-Hedgehog, Alien-like Glow Fish, Were-Rat, Shelly, Vampire Insects.
 * '''Jeff Bennett as Sea Monkeys.

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Critical Response
The movie was received generally positive reviews, with critics praising its stop-motion animation, voice acting, and character development. It was also a commercial success surpassing the remake film and, like the remake film, was the highest grossing animated feature film of the year.

The film received 81% positive reviews on the film-critics aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on reviews from 167 critics and a rating average of 6.9 out of 10, with the consensus being that "The storyline arc may seem a tad familiar to fans of the Disney and producer Tim Burton type of sequels, but Frankenweenie 2 offers romantic, comedy, horror, dark fantasy and visual sparkle to compensate." It also received a weighted average score of 67 out of 100 at Metacritic, based on 31 reviews from mainstream critics.

Box Office
The movie was also a commercial success.