Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005)
Runtime: 87 mins
Theatrical Release: Sep 23, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $53,337,608
Synopsis: In the same vein as EDWARD SCISSORHANDS and NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, Tim Burton continues to combine wholesome comedy and creepy horror with this tale of a mild-mannered Victorian gentleman, Victor (Johnny Depp), who accidentally marries a mysterious corpse bride (Helena... In the same vein as EDWARD SCISSORHANDS and NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, Tim Burton continues to combine wholesome comedy and creepy horror with this tale of a mild-mannered Victorian gentleman, Victor (Johnny Depp), who accidentally marries a mysterious corpse bride (Helena Bonham-Carter) instead of his intended, Victoria (Emily Watson). Victor soon discovers that the Land of the Dead holds more fun than frights and begins to fall in love with his innocent bride. Meanwhile, Victoria has been drawn into a scam of a marriage and may not escape with her life. As time runs out for everyone, can there be a resolution in which everyone gets what he or she deserves? Building on their past productive relationship (EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, ED WOOD), Tim Burton and Johnny Depp create a colorful riot of a film that revives the increasingly rare method of stop-motion animation. Over the period of 10 years that Burton worked to complete the film, new techniques were created to speed the process, including a new way to change the character models' facial expressions by using gears in their heads. Of particular note is the lilting score by Danny Elfman, another longtime Burton collaborator. Fun for adults and children, CORPSE BRIDE is another welcome walk through Tim Burton's twisted mind. [More]
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Emily Watson, Albert Finney, Richard E. Grant
Producer: Laurie Parker, Tim Burton, Allison Abbate
Screenwriter: John August
Director: Caroline Thompson
Screenwriter: Pamela Pettler
Composer: Danny Elfman
DVD Info
Release:
Oct 10, 2006
HD-DVD Features:
- Elite Red HD Case
- Widescreen - 1.78
Audio:
- Dolby Digital Surround Sound EX 5.1 - English, French (Quebec), Latin Spanish
- Subtitles - English, French, Latin Spanish, Spanish - Optional
- Closed Captioned - English - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Trailers - 1. Theatrical Trailer
- Featurettes - 1. "Inside the Two Worlds"
- 2. "Danny Elfman Interprets the Two Worlds"
- 3. "The Animators: The Breath of Life"
- 4. "Tim Burton: Dark vs. Light"
- 5. "Voices from the Underworld"
- 6. "Making Puppets Tick"
- 7. "The Voices Behind the Voice"
- 8. Music-Only Track
Text and Photo Galleries:
- "THE CORPSE BRIDE Pre-Production Galleries"
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Reviews
Burton thinks in intuitive images, and there are sights here that I would love to have framed on my wall.
Burton definitely follows his own deliriously surreal path that may be more decipherable to a shrink than a movie critic.
Gloomy, but in a beautiful, compelling way. In fact, the visuals sell the film because the story is entertaining but extremely lightweight.
...the visuals are so good and the voices so colorful, you probably won't mind the film's minor shortcomings.
There are wonderful voice performances all around...and the animation, particularly of facial expressions, sets a new level of technical accomplishment...but the humor in Corpse Bride feels underpowered...
Divertida, romántica y con mucho más corazón que el resto de los filmes en cartelera, es simple y sencillamente un deleite que no puedes dejar pasar por alto.
After the bloated hit-and-miss feel of many of Burton's recent live-action work it is a joy to experience this throwback to the glory days.
Nothing more than an 81-minute in-joke only two people in the world %u2014 Tim Burton and Danny Elfman %u2014 think is funny. But sometimes self-indulgence is the very thing that makes a filmmaker worth watching.
While not as groundbreaking or thematically complex as "The Nightmare Before Christmas," Burton's latest stop-motion animated film has moments of brilliance and a wonderfully sweet tone
This is another joyously morbid fairy tale from Tim Burton. The mock morbidity is a lot of fun, and it all comes to a heartwarming ending.
Fabulously innovative, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride is a complex combo of fantasy and whimsy.
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