Much like the Corpse Bride herself. Dead and lifeless.

Rating: 5/10 (20 August 2012)

I did enjoy Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. For all of its' flaws, it was good solid fun. The Corpse Bride could have been great and could have been one of the greats of clay-mation. Tim Burton, who helped work on The Nightmare Before Christmas one of my favorite films of all time, has an idea how to make a good stop-motion film. The Corpse Bride is a passable movie that has TONS of problems that are constantly overlooked by fans of this movie. The Corpse Bride is only an OK effort. The story centers around Victor. A shy groom who practices his wedding vows in the presence of a dead woman, she rises from the grave assuming he has married her. The story is just silly even compared to other Burton work. There is also a side story about a murder but that isn't even worth mentioning as it is pretty obvious what the twist is. Again this is very character driven. an average story. The good things are good in a sense of that it has to be good. Good music, amazing character designs, nice animation, and cool sets. Then again, ALL Burton movies do all of these so what do I do about it here? The problems are obvious. dumb story, bad characters and predictable plot. I can tell you exactly every way this movie will go from point to point throughout. The characters are lame and the main character is just a wuss. I wasn't rooting for him at all and I just did not care about him. This movie has problems and tie with the good. Overall, the movie is satisfactory. It may look like I bashed this film but that is only because it is so disappointing. The Corpse Bride could have been so much more, but it stands as an average effort of a movie that I was just disappointed in.
Next up, Tim Burton goes down the rabbit hole and everyone scrambles to get back up in his first bad movie.