Eerily beautiful, but not quite perfect

Rating: 8/10 (30 October 2011)

"Corpse Bride" is the kind of movie that makes me proud that I've never gotten too old for fairy tales. And as long as Tim Burton manages to keep his head in the clouds, I doubt I ever will. This movie is so soothing, so heart-warming, but at the same time it's also very dark. Take that literally in fact, black is the primary color. The animation is absolutely wonderful, but the movie never tries to sell that as an achievement of its own. Mastering the effects is only useful when you combine it with good writing, and Tim Burton seems to be one of the few great directors that actually seems to remember this. What a beautiful story this is, in some ways "Corpse Bride" is the kind of movie Disney keeps failing to make. Purely for the sake of nitpicking however, I would like to point that a) the movie seems really short to me (not even 80 minutes) and b) the ending is somewhat disappointing. Apart from that, this thing is pure magic.