You have to be logged in to comment! If you don't have an account register now for free! Your account allows you to post comments and reviews, upload videos and images, access or our forums, write personal blogs, and maintain your profile.
Very good movie. I love the stop motion animation its so unique and you dont see it all the time. Not nearly as good as Nightmare Before Christmas but still very good.
I love this one it sweet and spooky !!! The whole thing works ,colors and music make The mood and the voices bring it all together!!!!!!
Posted By: horrorfan25 at 9:28am, November 6, 2008
Corpse bride may not be better than "Nightmare before Christmas" and might not be a masterpiece, but I still liked Corpse Bride. The CGI is great, the acting is okay, and the story is wonderful. I just love the claymation in Corpse Bride because it looks dark and scary. A nice feel to it. Overall I give Corpse Bride a 7 out of 10 or 3 1/2 skulls out of 5.
I’m not a huge Tim Burton fan—Sweeny Todd was decent, but that’s all I can really give him—and I’ve never seen The Nightmare Before Christmas, so I can’t compare this to it. If you’re looking for an unbiased review, this is one of the few you’ll get.
First of all, for an animated movie, this is one of the better ones I’ve seen. The themes running though are not overdone clichés—unlike, say, Wall-E—and it was very nice to see women in an animated film fighting for the man, and not clichéd vice versa. The plotline itself is something similar to what you’d read in a kid’s horror anthology, but it totally worked for this film’s style. More importantly, the plot isn’t something you’ve heard a thousand times, and I couldn’t pick out any glairing clichés. In a way, The Corpse Bride is more mature of an effort story-wise than some of Burton’s live-action, R-rated films because it has more imagination.
The signature gothic style is done very well, and the animation is stellar to look at. I found the use of black-and-white in the real-world sequences a bit annoying and overdone, but to each his own. For someone who isn’t a hardcore Burton fan, I can’t say I really even noticed the music. Every now and then I thought it was pretty, but I doubt if you’re not paying a lot of attention you’ll even notice what everyone else is deeming as “beautiful and a masterpiece”.
The main problems The Corpse Bride had:
- Most of the characters were forgettable. They play out flat, as if the plot is just using them as pawns. I wouldn’t mind this if the plot was AWESOME, but it just simply isn’t, and the lack of emotional attachment to the characters really gets in the way of the overall effect.
- No immersion. I understand this is a children’s movie, and being an adult may have something to do with it, but as hard as I tried to love The Corpse Bride there was just something dull about it that I can’t put my finger on. The world Burton creates is a near-perfect mix of childish macabre fantasy, and it is beautiful, but there is something missing. I assume that would be a darker plotline. The constant use of puns, also, takes away from the seriousness and beauty of the whole thing. Can’t there ever be a animated, PG-rated movie that creates and sustains a darkly beautiful tone?
Overall: Be sure to watch it on TV when the countless cartoon networks are playing it for Halloween. It is worth your time. It’s just not the masterpiece I was hoping it would be.
Posted By: roostergore at 8:08pm, September 28, 2008
If you have young kids this movie is a life saver. You can out it on over and over like they will ask and it will never get on your nerves. I wish people would quit comparing it to Nightmare before Christmas. It deserves to stand on its own.
Not as good as Nightmare Before Christmas, but still enjoyable. The music and animation are both wonderful. I felt the story was rather weak and the characters weren't as vivid and memorable as those in Nightmare.
If Tim Burton is going to keep doing musicals he needs to hire people who can sing…not his wife. Other than that the film is fun and enjoyable but doesn’t leave the impression that Nightmare does.
