lovely, beautiful... watch it!

Rating: 10/10 (23 September 2006)

You can only love this film. It's all perfect: the characters, the story, the soundtrack, the cinematography, the dubbing. My mum also, who doesn't like Tim Burton, loved this film very much. Victor (dubbed by Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean  Dead man's chest) and Victoria (dubbed by Emily Watson, Separate lies) are an engaged couple. Victor can't remember the wedding wording, and, trying it in a wood, he puts the wedding ring in a branch emerging from the ground. But the branch is a corpse bride's finger, so Victor finds himself married to a dead girl. The Corpse bride is dubbed by Helena Bonham Carter, who does a great job. Each frame emits sweet romance and dark romanticism, but it's never sugary and mawkish. It's Tim Burton to cube, you can perceive the same atmosphere as Edward scissorhands. The faithful Danny Elfman signs the splendid soundtrack and the funny songs. My favourite sequence is when Victor and the Corpse Bride play the piano, but also when Mr. Bonejangles and his skeletal jazz band sing to Victor the story of Corpse bride's sad end. The characters of the parents and the Archbishop Galswell (dubbed by Christopher Lee) are really funny. It's magnificent the comparison between the Alive ones' world and Dead ones' world. Dead ones live in a colourful and happy downstairs; upstairs, alive ones live among conventions and dullness. It's really unfair Tim Burton's Corpse bride didn't win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature: it was worth, in every way.