Court*** pN*o Sally and Jack Skalllngton from "Nightmare Before Christmas" proclaim their love Tim Burton’s Nightmare has incredible animation real story telling it ami, but Tim Bur Ion's The Nightmare Before Christ ias is nonetheless one ot the more entertaining movies ol the season. The movie tells the tale o( Jack Sketling ton, the Pumpkin King, who is responsible tor creating Halloween But after yet anoth er frighteningly successful round of creep ing and crawling. Jack decides doing the spooky doesn't cut it anymore In his search for something new, Jack stumbles upon Christmastown and is immediately taken in by the holiday's cheerfulness Jack returns to Halloween town and tells the assembled ghastly ghouls of his dis covery of Christmas and its leader, "Sandy Claws " In his quest to bring Christmas to Halloweentown, Jack decides to comman deer the holiday lor his own. Ultimately. Jack's plan is shot down in flames, literally, by a surface-to-air missile. He returns to Halloweentown in time to rescue Santa and Sally, who has a thing for the bony pumpkin head, from Oogie Boogie, the only truly evil resident of Hal loweentown For any other movie, a plot this thin would sound its death knell But Nightmare isn't any other movie Rather, it is quite simply the best stop-motion animation movie ever Nightmare takes the technique that allowed King Kong to climb the Empire State Building and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer to lead a fat man out the fog, and creates a flowing, realistic three dimensional world that simple animation could never hope to bring to life ux*otsi io Barrel, Shock, and Lock arc three charac ters from the delightful movie. I( ever a movie screamed lor a special ellects Oscar, (his is the one Nightmare is one o( those rare movies where the absence ol a plot may actually benefit the lilm, because it allows the viewer to enjoy the stellar animation unimpeded by having to follow a story line. Great as the animation is, however, it is not the movie's strongest aspect That honor goes to the movie's soundtrack. Scored by Danny Elfman, formerly of Omgo Bomgo fame (limited as it was), the 1 urn !» MOV IK. \'^c I4H Happy Holidays. Now'you can take home some of our most popular Macintosh* and POwertiook* models with no money down and no payments for 90 days. (You could qualify with a phone call, but must apply by January 28, 1994.) It's all part of the new Apple Computer Loan And, for a limited time, seven incredibly useful software programs will be included all for one low price. So, celebrate this season with a brand-new Macintosh or PowerBook computer. It does more. It costs less. Itfc that simple. 4 Ininxluann The Vv> \|>|>le Computer Uian Visit your Apple Campus Reseller for more information. Microcomputer Support Center 202 Computing Center • 346-4402 Monday-Friday, 9am • 5pm Cn~J UJll liliyi • - nr lenllmW Vt“ *r *!***■■ dmlP&rrfa*mrntMrn1lnhirm*Th.1 1/plrlimfutrT I*