Movie Schitzo's Review of "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride"

Rating: 7/10 (17 August 2006)

Tim Burton is a very weird and interesting individual. With movies like Ed Wood, Mars Attacks!, Edward Scissorhands, and Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, he creates movies that are visually stunning, weird, funny, touching and heartwarming. Here, he takes an old folk legend about a nervous groom and turns it into an animated film. Here, we are introduced to Victor Von Dort (Johnny Depp), whose parents are making him get married to the wealthy Victoria Everglot so they can inherit her family's fortunes (Emily Watson) whose parents are making her get married to him to inherit his family's fortunes. Victor is very nervous on his wedding day and goes into the woods to practice his vows. He tries it on what looks like a stick, but turns out to be the hand of The Corpse Bride (Helena Bonam Carter) and he has just proposed to her! She takes him down to the Land of the Dead and prepares to marry him all the while, he is pining for Victoria and planning to return to her. The voice actors did very well here and changed their voices so that you couldn't even recognize them and the visual effect were astounding. All in all, a good little animated musical family film.
3 out of 4 stars