not as good as people say

Rating: 2/10 (30 October 2005)

When Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, and Danny Elfman get together, it's usually a great movie in the making. Sadly, this time around the new stop action animated film the Corpse Bride, fails to live up to anything they've done before. The movie starts out with an annoying and dull musical number about how Victor (Johnny Depp) is about to be wed to Victoria (Emily Watson) in a marriage arranged by both of the parents. Victors parents (Tracey Ullman and Paul Whitehouse) are rich and Victoria's parents (Johanna Lumley and Albert Finney) are poor, and are hoping to make some money off of the marriage. Things start going wrong when Victor's is overcome by shyness and he just can't get his vows right and ends up having to go into the woods to practice them. This ends up being a bad idea when he places a ring a "twig" that turns out to be a skeletal finger sticking out from the ground and as luck would have it, he is now officially married to the corpse bride, even though he has fallen in love with Victoria. This leads to a couple different events to happen throughout the movie. Are they worth watching? No, they aren't and the movie just gets more boring with every scene. Even at an hour and 14 minutes, it still seems like the movie is lasting forever. The music isn't even as amazing as other Danny Elfman composed films. With only about 3 musical scenes, that do nothing but bore and annoy, except for a couple exciting lines by a skeleton from the underworld, Bonejangles. The story itself for the movie is nothing special or surprising, even though not predictable, it just isn't very exciting to sit through. The film wasn't all bad and full of boredom. There were some perks to the movie. The beautiful animation is great to watch and the colors and awkward looking people with their long arms are just amazing to watch. All the voice acting is amazing to, and the voices show great signs of emotion and are superb. Besides these things, they can't save the movie from being a total borefest. I'm not a fan of "Nightmare Before Christmas", but I'd stick to this movie instead of seeing the Corpse Bride. This movie is a movie with a bad, boring story line thats nice to look at.