Corpse Bride

Rating: 8/10 (24 September 2005)

Corpse Bride, is set in the early nineteenth century and is about a shy and timid young man named Victor Van Dort, who is being arranged to marry a young woman named Victoria Everglot. While they are rehearsing the wedding Victor, can't seem to get his vows right so he heads off into the woods and practices placing the wedding ring on a bony finger sticking out of the ground. To Victor's astonishment out comes a living corpse who now thinks that Victor and her are married. The corpse bride takes Victor, to live with her down under but Victor, wants to go back and marry Victoria, but at the same time he is in a bit of a situation because he also accidentally married the corpse bride. Winner of The Future Film Festival Digital Award for the film's directors Mike Johnson and Tim Burton at The Venice Film Festival. Corpse Bride, is a great looking film and I really liked the stop motion animation they did for the film. The film is also stylish and very neat to look at, is entertaining, creative, charming, very inventive and it plays out like a fairy tale with a lot of macabre humour but is appropriate enough for younger viewers. Corpse Bride, sometimes looks and feels like The Nightmare Before Christmas, because of similar animation, style and music but on it's own this is still a good film which is visually fascinating and has a sweet story that I think will appeal to those both young and old. I have been a big fan of Tim Burton's for a long time and I think there is a very good chance that this film will be nominated at next year's Oscars for Best Animated Film, and I think it has a very good chance of winning because although I haven't seen any of the other animated films that have come out this year so far, this one has been the highest rated so I'd say it has really good chances and I would personally for one really like to see Tim Burton win an Oscar.