The Portable Tim Burton

Rating: 4/10 (21 September 2005)

In 40 years when you look with disdain at your lazy grandchildren and they ask you about the fuss around Tim Burton. Tell them to watch Corpse Bride. It's not as fulfilling as any of his other films, but it certainly plays like a greatest hit album.
All the stock players are present, Elfman, Depp, the stop motion pastiche. And so are the elements of Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and all the others.
The story doesn't engage, the songs were a let down. I was bored.
Christopher Lee was quite amusing.
The Peter Lorre worm was just sad.