Burton returns to what he does best.

Rating: 6/10 (26 June 2010)

"Oh, don't be ridiculous. What corpse would marry our Victor?"
The story of the Corpse Bride is very simple. A young man accidentally practices his vows on the eve of his wedding in the presence of a woman who died a tragic death, and finds himself in the land of the dead, married to her in truth. Does he return to the land above to marry his betrothed, or does he remain with his corpse bride?
I'd be perfectly content if Tim Burton would stick to his original creations, and stopped adapting other people's work. Especially if it lead to more stop-motion movies like this one. Burton's obsession with deathly pale characters with sunken eyes and Victorian clothing is much more charming in animation, than it is in his live-action movies.
I know that making a movie of any kind is labor-intensive and time-consuming, but it's rarely as evident as it is in stop-motion movies. The obvious comparison to Corpse Bride is The Nightmare before Christmas. The former isn't quite as clever as the latter, but it's nearly as artistically pleasant. The character designs are good, the sets are impressive, and the painstaking attention to detail is astounding.
Other than some underwhelming songs, I enjoyed every bit of Corpse Bride. It's a dark, fantasy tale that has all the humor, star power, and whimsy that a child or adult could want from an animated movie.