I wonder how long Tim Burton has waited so that this movie could be released on yesterday’s date. I would guess that he has had the story in mind for a few years. On second thought, maybe he just decided a couple of years ago to save the number nine gunny sack character. I do not know what they are really called. One of my 5th graders saw it last night. He gave me a brief synopsis about the first part of the story–how some of the gunny sack characters (spoiler alert) died.
Originally, there are the gunny sack characters–one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. About 4 are destroyed early on, but I will not tell you who they are. (My 5th grader did. But I pleaded with him to not give away the ending. (more…)

