Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 183
Fresh: 153 | Rotten: 30
As can be expected from a Tim Burton movie, Corpse Bride is whimsically macabre, visually imaginative, and emotionally bittersweet.
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 3
As can be expected from a Tim Burton movie, Corpse Bride is whimsically macabre, visually imaginative, and emotionally bittersweet.
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Tim Burton returns to the dark but fanciful animated style of The Nightmare Before Christmas with this stop-motion black comedy. Victor (voice of Johnny Depp) lives in a small European village in the 19th century, where he is pledged to marry Victoria (voice of Emily Watson), a partnership arranged by their parents. The two only meet the day before their scheduled nuptials, and Victor performs disastrously in the wedding rehearsal. Later that evening, while he is walking through the woods and
PG, 1 hr. 16 min.
Action & Adventure, Animation, Kids & Family, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
Sep 16, 2005 Limited
Jan 31, 2006
$53.3M
Warner Bros. Pictures
All Critics (185) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (164) | Rotten (30) | DVD (37)
They just keep going through the same things over and over again. The songs are forgettable.
Based on a Russian folk tale, Corpse Bride makes for breathtaking viewing.
Corpse Bride has the look and feel of the best puppet show ever.
The sweetness, the visual flourishes and inspired pieces of casting carry the Corpse Bride, if not all the way down the primrose path, then at least across the threshold.
Amazingly fluid and drop-dead gorgeous, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride is the best-looking, stop-motion animation film ever.
There's a happy Halloween in store even for children who aren't allowed to trick or treat, and it's courtesy of Tim Burton's animated Corpse Bride.
The Corpse Bride may be a bit too melancholy to find a real family audience, but for an adult who hasn't quite given up on happily ever afters and strange goings on in the dark woods, it's just the ticket.
Another Burtonesque blur of wise-guy nudging and romantic exhilaration
"Better Off Dead" would have been a better title choice for Tim Burton's self-indulgently macabre attempt at creating an animated underworld of gleeful singing corpses.
There is a BEETLEJUICE-type of manic energy %u2014 a sense of imagination run riot that makes the film always worth watching, even when the story loses traction
A brilliantly animated, deliciously macabre and strangely touching triumph.
Magical, with scares most 10-year-olds can handle.
In his commentary, Tim Burton describes the filmmaking process as "no foreseeable in sight," due to the extraordinary patience called for by stop-motion: "It was like Frankenstein or Pinocchio, where you're breathing life into an inanimate object."
As fun as the film occasionally is, it just plays like a compilation of greatest hits.
Burton thinks in intuitive images, and there are sights here that I would love to have framed on my wall.
In the hands of another director, this material could have been dead on arrival, but for Mr. Burton it's dead on.
The rubbery, pallid digital figures with gigantic soulful eyes are appealing enough, whether dead or alive, even if the bride's voice of conscience is the worm-in-residence shouting out orders from her rotting ear.
Burton definitely follows his own deliriously surreal path that may be more decipherable to a shrink than a movie critic.
Burton has fashioned nothing particularly new, but he has managed to make a sweet little whimsical fairy tale, with a pretty nifty love story thrown in, too. (HD-DVD Edition)
Danny Elfman's catchy songs are all but overwhelmed by Burton and Johnson's visual embellishments.
If Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was Burton's big picture for 2005, this is his miniature.
Take an imaginitive idea and a famed director and you get... underwhelmed. I don't know why exactly, but the story seemed so dirivative (and how often can you say that about a guy marrying a corpse by accident) - it just seemed like this tred on such time proven ground - very Dickensian in a sense... and in spite of
December 2, 2011
Super Reviewer
Burton is a master when it comes to doing films that involve stop motion, such as his short story Vincent, which would've been on here except its just a short film but not a theatrical released film. Anyway, Corpse Bride has some spectacular visuals, characters, and songs, Danny Elfman does his usual great job as the
October 30, 2010Super Reviewer
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