Burton rises again...

Rating: 7/10 (13 March 2006)

After some shorts from his early days, after "Beetlejuice" and "Nightmare before Christmas", Tim Burton strikes back with his own universe skulls and characters that look like they've been created by a Gothic Dali. "The Corpse Bride" contains a simple story: a fairy tale in which Snow White has her cranium inhabited by a talking worm (sort of a Jimmy Cricket from the afterlife), and lives surrounded by coffin-shaped furniture... The musical acts are played by black widows and skeletons instead of dwarfs and teapots... Walt Disney having fun in the Ghost Train, that's what "The corpse bride" looks like... There's no doubt that Burton really enjoys this kind of projects: he doesn't have to deal with actors, or with the pressure of the big studios...
Humor and romance delightfully macabre, for the eldest and for the young ones. This is the Tim Burton we love, not that one who makes awful remakes of Hollywood classic movies.
*My rate: 7/10