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Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005)

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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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Movie Info

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

Directed By: Mike Johnson , Tim Burton

Written By: Michael Cohn, Caroline Thompson, Pamela Pettler

In Theaters: Sep 16, 2005 Limited

On DVD: Jan 31, 2006

Box Office:$53.3M

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Cast

Johnny Depp
Victor Van Dort
Helena Bonham Carter
Corpse Bride
Emily Watson
Victoria Everglot
Tracey Ullman
Nell Van Dort/Hildegard...
Albert Finney
Finis Everglot
Richard E. Grant
Barkis Bittern
Jane Horrocks
Black Widow Spider, Mrs...
Christopher Lee
Pastor Galswells
Joanna Lumley
Maudeline Everglot
Deep Roy
General Bonesapart
Danny Elfman
Bonejangles
Enn Reitel
Maggot, Town Crier
Lisa Kay
Solemn Village Boy
Paul Whitehouse
Mayhew, Paul The Head W...
Stephen Ballantyne
Emil
Michael Gough
Elder Gutknecht
Richard Grant
Paul Watson

Critic Reviews for Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

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They just keep going through the same things over and over again. The songs are forgettable.

September 26, 2005 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper

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Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

Based on a Russian folk tale, Corpse Bride makes for breathtaking viewing.

September 23, 2005 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Teresa Wiltz

Washington Post

Top Critic

Corpse Bride has the look and feel of the best puppet show ever.

September 23, 2005 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Ruthe Stein

San Francisco Chronicle

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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.

September 23, 2005 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel

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Roger Moore

Orlando Sentinel

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Amazingly fluid and drop-dead gorgeous, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride is the best-looking, stop-motion animation film ever.

September 23, 2005 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle

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Bruce Westbrook

Houston Chronicle

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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.

September 23, 2005 Comment

Terry Lawson

Detroit Free Press

Top Critic

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.

March 21, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net

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Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

Another Burtonesque blur of wise-guy nudging and romantic exhilaration

September 1, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

"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.

April 15, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

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

October 21, 2008 Full Review Source: ESplatter

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Steve Biodrowski

ESplatter

A brilliantly animated, deliciously macabre and strangely touching triumph.

September 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4

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Jon Fortgang

Film4

Magical, with scares most 10-year-olds can handle.

July 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Cynthia Fuchs

Common Sense Media

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."

December 21, 2007 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

As fun as the film occasionally is, it just plays like a compilation of greatest hits.

August 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out New York

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Dave Calhoun

Time Out New York

Burton thinks in intuitive images, and there are sights here that I would love to have framed on my wall.

July 30, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

In the hands of another director, this material could have been dead on arrival, but for Mr. Burton it's dead on.

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound

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Joe Lozito

Big Picture Big Sound

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.

May 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Long Island Press

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Prairie Miller

Long Island Press

Burton definitely follows his own deliriously surreal path that may be more decipherable to a shrink than a movie critic.

March 31, 2007 Full Review | Comment

Prairie Miller

WBAI Web Radio

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)

October 12, 2006 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Danny Elfman's catchy songs are all but overwhelmed by Burton and Johnson's visual embellishments.

May 12, 2006 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review

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Jim Lane

Sacramento News & Review

If Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was Burton's big picture for 2005, this is his miniature.

April 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine

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Kim Newman

Empire Magazine

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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

paul sandberg

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, 2010

Michael Edwards

Super Reviewer

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1. Mrs. Plum: New arrival!
– Submitted by Victor H (30 days ago)
1. Nell Van Dort/Hildegarde: It's a beautiful day!
2. William Van Dort: It's a rather nice day.
3. Nell Van Dort/Hildegarde: A day for a glorious wedding!
4. William Van Dort: A rehearsal, my dear, to be perfectly clear.
5. Nell Van Dort/Hildegarde: A rehearsal for a glorious wedding!
– Submitted by Victor H (30 days ago)
1. Victor Van Dort: I've got a... I've got a dwarf, and I'm not afraid to use him!
– Submitted by Victor H (30 days ago)
1. Victor Van Dort: Don't you understand? You're the other woman.
2. Corpse Bride: No! You're married to me! She's the other woman! *cries*
– Submitted by Ceara R (3 months ago)
1. Barkis Bittern: But first! A toast, to Emily. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride! Tell me my dear, can a heart still break once it's stopped beating?
– Submitted by Richard L (7 months ago)

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