Beautiful and enchanting; dark and Gothic. It is a tragedy with mixed ending, with totally unexpected love story.

Rating: 8/10 (5 September 2014)

Corpse Bride (2005) is beautiful and enchanting; dark and Gothic, just like the typical Tim Burton's artistic films. It also has a lot of distinct characters and plenty of thought provoking hidden depths.
Playfully plays on social issues such as gender roles, arranged marriage, family expectation, materialism and so on using the stop motion animation technique, this film is both lovely and hilarious. At most times the whole film is quite witty, with plenty of parodies on life.
While at first sight it may give an impression of being a gruesome movie, you will find out that Corpse Bride (2005) is actually one of the sweetest dark fantasy out there if you give this movie a chance. It is a tragedy with mixed ending, with totally unexpected love story.
In brief, this unpredictable film is quite nice to watch. With creative screenplay and thrilling music or sound effects in addition to its beautiful visuals and adorable characters, this animated feature is certainly one of the best dark, Gothic musical fantasy film out there.
PS. My favorite scenes are the lovely piano scenes which is quite exquisite and really difficult to create!!