Practically a moving piece of art

Rating: Null/10 (14 April 2006)

I give this a 10/10 because it not only displayed excellent stop motion animation but the voice talents were incredible as with the score provided by Danny Elfman (Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) Okay, so the movie is basically what the plot summaries say it is, a timid young man accidentally is wed to a corpse bride who claims that they are to be together forever. Johnny Depp is superb in his role as Victor Van Dort and he does indeed create a voice for the character that sounds nervous and shy.
Helena Bonham Carter is excellent in her role as the Corpse Bride/Emily. While I'm not that familiar with her acting, I was easily enticed to see how well she acted using only her voice. The other actors and actresses are all awesome (Emily Watson, Albert Finney, Christopher Lee, etc) Danny Elfman's music won me over because the variety of different tunes and kinds of instruments he had used in this including that "keyboard thing" he plays around with to make the real unusual sounds. Without the music, this film wouldn't be twice as good as it is now because the score flows with the events and finds appropriate timing to be a quick waltz or even a jazzy tune like Remains of the Day.
So see this film (if you haven't already) for the contrast of black and white color, the voice talents, the music and anything else that is superb about it.
10/10