Another one of Burton's masterpieces..

Rating: 10/10 (29 May 2020)

Written perfectly with some of the most impressive special effects I've seen in the past 30 years. One of the most well made movies ever, not just animated movie, it has a strong cast, strong direction in the hands of Tim Burton and Mike Johnson and an intriguing story. Having come off Planet of the Apes, Burton had to really make a great movie and he proved he could, a future masterpiece and deserves a far higher score on IMDB.
This and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory came out the same year, Chocolate Factory was more of a movie for fans of the book and not the original movie, it was not a reboot or a remake, it was a re-imagining and in my opinion, as a die-hard fan of the book, it was much better than the original and I pretty sure plenty of the other hundreds of thousands fans of the book felt the exact same way.
This is a gothic masterpiece and is quite possibly my favourite all-time movie, not just animated. It's a creative, creepy movie that I respect so dearly and forever will, because of how it shaped my childhood, like most of Burton's work. It is the greatest film of 2005, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory a very close second. In every way, this film is perfect, I picked up absolutely zero flaws watching this. It's hilarious, sad, depressing, dark, happy and literally everything else you could think of.
Johnny Depp's character, Victor, basically is an awkward individual who is getting married to a total stranger played by Emma Thomas (Victoria) and he goes into the woods and practises how he is going to propose to Victoria by putting a ring on a supposed stick of wood, only to find out that it is the hand of a skeleton portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter. This film is a story of life and death and life beyond death.
Victoria is forced by her parents to marry Lord Barkis played by Richard E. Grant, which is where a massive fight breaks loose at the end of the film. It is absolutely hilarious! My favourite line being, "There's an eye in me soup."