I love this Tim Burton's animated movie. It was the first stop motion movie I've watched as a child and I love stop motion movies since then. It is a lot of hard work to make a stop motion movie, it took 3 years to complete "The Nightmare Before Christmas". As someone who has learn 3d animation in school, I can understand the triple effort required for a stop motion animation.

If you have not seen the movie, it is really more about Halloween than Christmas, still I love Jack and Zero and I just love watching it before Christmas.

Synopsis:
"The film follows the misadventures of Jack Skellington, Halloweentown's beloved pumpkin king, who has become bored with the same annual routine of frightening people in the "real world." When Jack accidentally stumbles on Christmastown, all bright colors and warm spirits, he gets a new lease on life -- he plots to bring Christmas under his control by kidnapping Santa Claus and taking over the role. But Jack soon discovers even the best-laid plans of mice and skeleton men can go seriously awry." - Wikipedia

I remember just recently when I was in a Paris Disney store and they started playing "What's this?" (my favourite song from the show) on the big screen and everyone, even the bored fathers, just stop what they are doing and stare at the screen to watch the video. It's really hilarious, as if time has stops and brought us to Christmastown. :)

Here's the song:


Our Playmobil kids hanging out with Jack in Christmastown.