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I had not watched this before.
It has kind of an ugly ending.
I didn't like the songs or the music and didn't see the point of Oogie Boogie or why he was supposed to be bad compared to a whole town dedicated to scaring people. I thought it was a bit boring really. But mostly it was okay.
Halloweentown guy sees Christmas and decides it is more shiny, Halloween people join in to make their best Christmas, he goes out with the glowy nose dog in front to make a Halloween Christmas. Happy story.
And Sandy Claws is a fun idea. But all he does once he gets kidnapped is be kidnapped, which for a guy with that many superpowers is kind of weird.
But then everyone hates and fears the Halloween Christmas and Santa is just scared the whole time he's in Halloweentown and by then end everyone is back in their box. So people born in Halloweentown who look like Halloween people are in fact stuck with doing Halloween. Only. Every year. Forever.
It's a 'know your place and stay there' story.
That's ugly.

If I was writing it Santa would discover his inner Sandy Claws and the Halloween Christmas would please goth children and freak out their parents everywhere. People would be sad when the skeleton santa got blown up, because how uncool is it to blow up someone for giving presents? By the end when they swapped back Santa would have new ideas for jack in a box toys and Halloweentown would know about snow and the longest night. There's be an actual point where people could go be Christmas people if they felt like it. Or Halloween people if they felt like it. Or whatever.

Why write stories that are all about how freaky people get shot at and aren't allowed out except for Halloween?
Yuck.