Beautiful

Rating: 8/10 (3 February 2006)

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride was a film I was really looking forward to seeing, I thought it would be amazing. But o boy was I wrong. It was decent but nothing else at all, and maybe not even that. The story was not that original and not that good. It had been done plenty times before to success and I guess they thought they could do it one more time. Why couldn't they have just come up with something original for a change. The performances are very good but also nothing special or original in the voice industry.Johnny Depp and Albert Finney are both some of the greatest actors ever to live and this is a big disappointment for them. Emily Watson and Helena Bonham Carter are both also very good actors but pretty much fail here. The direction too is unoriginal and not great, in fact it is even worse than the story and the acting. Tim Burton is a good director and I fail to understand how he got this done. The visual effects I guess you would call them are amazing, the stop-motion animation is flawless. It could bee worth seeing just because of the animation if nothing else because it really lacks anything else good. Rent The Nightmare Before Christmas.