Captain Sparky Vs The Flying Saucers continues the adventures of Frankenweenie’s canine Sparky, and here’s how to watch the short film online. Bull terrier Sparky is the brainchild of filmmaker Tim Burton and made his debut in the director’s 1984 short film Frankenweenie. The black-and-white, Disney-produced live-action movie pays a parody-filled homage to James Whale’s classic 1931 sci-fi horror Frankenstein and tells the tale of a young boy named Victor Frankenstein, who is a budding filmmaker and scientist who brings his beloved pet dog back to life after he’s hit by a car and killed.
In 2012, Frankenweenie got the feature-length treatment with a black-and-white, stop-motion-animated movie again helmed by Burton and produced by Disney, which received largely positive reviews. The film expands on the storyline of the 1984 short and follows Victor Frankenstein - not the James McAvoy movie - as he’s blackmailed by his classmates into teaching them how to raise the dead after resurrecting Sparky. Unfortunately, Victor’s not-so scientifically inclined classmates mess up the process resulting in their hometown being overrun with mutant undead pets – including a cat-bat hybrid named Mr. Whiskers, a mummified hamster and a gang of giant Sea Monkeys.
When Frankenweenie was released on Blu-ray in 2013, it was accompanied by several bonus features – one of which was a short film titled Captain Sparky Vs The Flying Saucers. It’s directed by Frankenweenie animation supervisor Mark Waring (whose other credits include Corpse Bride and Isle Of Dogs) and is written by Frankenweenie co-producer Derek Frey. The latter also released the short via his Vimeo channel a couple of years ago. Watch Captain Sparky Vs The Flying Saucers below.
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Frankenweenie fans might remember that its protagonist Victor Frankenstein is an aspiring filmmaker as well as a science whiz and Captain Sparky Vs The Flying Saucers takes the form of a home movie Victor has made with Sparky. As its title suggests, the home movie is a sci-fi affair that follows Sparky as he tries to save the world from a hostile alien invasion. The short film also features the return of fellow Frankenweenie character Mr. Whiskers, although in his regular feline form rather than his cat-bat hybrid shape.
It’s actually a wonder the Tim Burton movie Frankenweenie and its mini-sequel Captain Sparky Vs The Flying Saucers were ever even made. After Burton made Frankenweenie in 1984, he was fired from Disney for wasting the studio’s money by making a film too scary for its young audiences. Thankfully, notions of what was once deemed too dark for impressionable young minds have since changed which led Disney to collaborate with the filmmaker on not just the feature-length Frankenweenie and Captain Sparky Vs The Flying Saucers but other Disney-Tim Burton movies like The Nightmare Before Christmas and James And The Giant Peach too.