This video may provide some entertainment to a toddler aged child, but I am going to review this as an adult man who watched in at one o'clock in the morning.
The video has no plot or story line. It is a series of segments featuring cgi characters dancing to "spooky" music, which could be fine, even fun, if the execution wasn't so horrible, but the segments get increasingly lazy and repetitive after the halfway point, which coincided with my decreasing patience with the video.
There are only maybe 4 songs that are played on a loop, and only one has a singer. The rest are just instrumentals that were almost indistinguishable from one another. The first few segments showed promise with a realistic skeleton in a creepy graveyard, followed with a host segment featuring a brightly colored Dracula and Frankenstein sitting on a talking monster couch in a whimsical graveyard that looks like something from Coraline, cartoon zombies in a realistic haunted house, a mummy in ancient ruins, and the aforementioned hosts dancing in the graveyard.
These were pretty consistent, with cartoony characters dancing in more realistic 3-D environments. It was clear that the character and background assets had been taken from two different sources and had different styles, but they worked well enough and most of the backgrounds looked very good. However after the first few segments the environments look like 2-D desktop backgrounds and the characters are either much more poorly animated or are just repeats/recolors of ones we've already seen. There were several skeleton segments with skeletons animated in different styles. This really bothered me. If the movie isn't going to have a story it should at least have a consistent style to pull me into the world and ambiance of the video, but it doesn't.
For me this ruined the novelty of seeing cgi monster designs and 3-D environments, which was the only enjoyment I was actually getting out of this film. Many of the early backgrounds are truly beautiful, and I would love to see them utilized in something more ambitious.
This isn't a good video. You can watch The Nightmare Before Christmas or random Halloween song videos on Youtube instead, and I guarantee you'll find more enjoyment.
The video has no plot or story line. It is a series of segments featuring cgi characters dancing to "spooky" music, which could be fine, even fun, if the execution wasn't so horrible, but the segments get increasingly lazy and repetitive after the halfway point, which coincided with my decreasing patience with the video.
There are only maybe 4 songs that are played on a loop, and only one has a singer. The rest are just instrumentals that were almost indistinguishable from one another. The first few segments showed promise with a realistic skeleton in a creepy graveyard, followed with a host segment featuring a brightly colored Dracula and Frankenstein sitting on a talking monster couch in a whimsical graveyard that looks like something from Coraline, cartoon zombies in a realistic haunted house, a mummy in ancient ruins, and the aforementioned hosts dancing in the graveyard.
These were pretty consistent, with cartoony characters dancing in more realistic 3-D environments. It was clear that the character and background assets had been taken from two different sources and had different styles, but they worked well enough and most of the backgrounds looked very good. However after the first few segments the environments look like 2-D desktop backgrounds and the characters are either much more poorly animated or are just repeats/recolors of ones we've already seen. There were several skeleton segments with skeletons animated in different styles. This really bothered me. If the movie isn't going to have a story it should at least have a consistent style to pull me into the world and ambiance of the video, but it doesn't.
For me this ruined the novelty of seeing cgi monster designs and 3-D environments, which was the only enjoyment I was actually getting out of this film. Many of the early backgrounds are truly beautiful, and I would love to see them utilized in something more ambitious.
This isn't a good video. You can watch The Nightmare Before Christmas or random Halloween song videos on Youtube instead, and I guarantee you'll find more enjoyment.
