Tim Burton has done it again!

Rating: 8/10 (28 September 2005)

Tim Burton seems to be at his best with the slightly quirky, strange worlds he creates in film. Like "Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Beetlejuice", "Corpse Bride" gives you another world, one where Victor Van Dort is a lonely man whose parents are arranging his marriage to a woman he has never met. The parents seek status and money from the marriage, as are the parents of Victoria Everglot, his bride-to-be. While preparing for the wedding, he accidentally comes upon the "Corpse Bride", and his entire world is turned upside down! I really enjoyed the story here, the characters of Victor and Victoria are easy to identify with, the parents are easy to loathe but also to have sympathy for, and the comic relief is found everywhere to keep the dark background from overtaking the story. The animation and world created are superb, somewhat in the vein of "Nightmare Before Christmas", but still different enough to not be a copycat. Burton has added a masterpiece to his collection and will continue forward from here.