Release Date:
Friday, September 16, 2005
The Nightmare Before Marriage
er, we mean Tim Burton's Corpse Bride is fiendishly clever, visually stunning, and yet another chance for Burton to team up with his doe-eyed muse, Johnny Depp. Based on a Russian folk tale and set in Victorian England, the plot is traditional romantic comedy fare: a dead chick steals away an unsuspecting groom as he's about to take the long walk down the aisle. Now Depp is faced with a choice only mentally ill morticians have to ponder: Marry the blue corpse that's on him like a wet T-shirt in Cancun, or fight his way out of the land of the dead to marry the love of his life, who not only has two arms to hold him, but a pulse, too. In a world of soulless computer-generated animation, Corpse Bride's biggest selling point is the painstakingly-detailed frame-by-frame animation, which truly comes to life in smaller characters like a worm who calls the decaying bride his home. The voice work is stellar, the mood is dark, and who cant love a movie in which the macabre wedding ceremony starts with the greeting, Dearly beloved and departed?