Love beyond the grave

Rating: 9/10 (22 June 2006)

It's funny, it's raving, it's dark, it's filled with dark humor. It's a Tim Burton movie! It was exiting to see an animation feature from Burton because his storytelling is very dreamy and so vibrant. He had produced "The Night Before Christmas" which was something extraordinary and howling funny. Another animation feature he produced was "Jim and the Giant Peach". Now Burton was sitting on the thrown of director.
Another exiting point was the fact that he had so interesting and talented cast to work with. His favorites Johnny Depp, wife Helena Bonham Carter, Albert Finney and frightening, legendary Christopher Lee joined comedians like Joanna Lumley and Tracey Ullman was worth of seeing. All of them put their heart and soul doing voices and every character sounded and somewhat even looked like their flesh and blood figures.
Burton's most longterm collaborator, composer Danny Elfman made just incredible job by composing another great fitting music to the film. Lively lyrics of Underworld to the dark and deeply melancholy tunes of Upperworld it was like the carnival of likable creeps. Elfman himself even performed some of the songs.
An interesting point of view was to rumble the two worlds around. Down under the dead were lively and colorful when at same time on earth people were depressingly gray. Maybe at six feet under life's not as bad as you could think.
With seen the behind the scenes material you're starting to respect the slow process of animators. So huge applauds to all the animators in the business! With animate characters and all their expressions is even more slow than regular drawing animation (Repects also to them).
Despite the little too guessable ending "Corpse Bride" is strong story of love beyond the grave. It is more mightier you could have ever imagine.
Gothic era is not over! Yieh!