Captain Sparky vs. the Flying Saucers

2013

Action / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Sci-Fi

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 50%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 50%
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 938 938

short film

Plot summary

Victor and his beloved dog Sparky watch one of their favorite home movies.

Director

Mark Waring Photo
Mark Waring

Top cast

Charlie Tahan Photo
Charlie Tahan as Victor Frankenstein
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17.74 MB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
12 hr 3 min
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37.71 MB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
12 hr 3 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by southdavid 6 / 10

Cups and Saucers.

I've been running through the short films on Disney Plus in alphabetical order and I've made it to "C" and to this "Captain Sparky vs. The Flying Saucer", a short spinoff from Tim Burton's "Frankenweenie" movie. Unfortunately, I haven't seen that movie yet, nor the original version, so I'm watching this without context.Victor (Charlie Tahan) sits down to watch one of his home movies, he selects Sparky's favourite, in which the titular hero fights off an alien invasion.I should point out that Burton is not the director of this, it was Mark Waring, who has also worked on other stop motion films like "Isle of Dogs", "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and, perhaps most importantly for this production Burton's "Corpse Bride". It's a very short short, at just three minutes - my assumption, again based on a film that I haven't seen, is that the films production make up part of the storyline of "Frankenweenie" and maybe we saw some quick clips of this in that, but this is the whole film.It looks great and the amount of work that goes into any form of stop motion is admirable. Exceptionally good is the "stop motion within stop motion" elements, as Victor's film employs that methodology too.Admittedly, it doesn't add up to much. The film rather falls apart at the end, which doesn't particularly make sense, as you think Victor would reset and reshoot the ending, but it's beautiful took look at whilst it lasts.
Reviewed by deepak-33572 1 / 10

This was not needed

Why was this even made? I am not sure why I watched it. May be because it showed in Disney as a new release. Don't waste your 2 min precious time for this.
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