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Corpse Bride

2005

Tim Burton, Mike Johnson

Animation, Voice: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson

7.2

99,810

Animation. Fantasy. Comedy. Romance. Musical. Horror Victor (voice of Johnny Depp) is travelling home with his friend to get married to his fiancee Victoria (Emily Watson). The two stop to rest in the woods, and as a joke, Victor puts his wedding ring on a finger-shaped stick in the ground and says his wedding vows. The stick turns out to be a rotted finger belonging to a murdered girl (Helena Bonham-Carter), who returns as a zombie and insists that she is now Victor's lawfully wedded wife. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"A stop-motion-animated treat brimming with imaginative characters, evocative sets, sly humor, inspired songs and a genuine whimsy that seldom finds its way into today's movies."	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"A precious thing, if likely to please refined aesthetes and odd children rather than win over Pixar-sized crowds (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ruthe Stein SFGATE	"Lively and deliriously original (...) The images are unlike anything you've ever seen"	POS
United Kingdom	Stella Papamichael BBC	"It's rare you'll find a life-affirming film about the walking dead, and even less so one that's aimed at children (...) If you have a pulse, you'll love it."	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Corpse Bride has much to recommend it, but I’m still waiting for the day when Burton, in an animated film, gets us to care about what’s making our own eyes pop out."	POS
United States	Tasha Robinson AV Club	"Every frame of Corpse Bride is an eye-popping wonderland (...) [It] lacks Nightmare's intensity, but also its manic highs and disappointing lows"	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"An unexpectedly touching celebration of love told in a quirky and inventive style."	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"The film does have a fairy-tale aspect, but, like many of its characters, it is more dead and buried than fully alive."	NEU
United States	Jack Mathews New York Daily News	"Stop-motion animation may be the hardest and most tedious job in Hollywood, but the makers of Tim Burton's Corpse Bride deserve a couple of years in Tahiti celebrating their effort."	POS

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