Another Burtonesque blur of wise-guy nudging and romantic exhilaration
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Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005)
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Reviews Counted:180
Fresh:150
Rotten:30
Average Rating:7.2/10
Consensus: As can be expected from a Tim Burton movie, Corpse Bride is whimsically macabre, visually imaginative, and emotionally bittersweet.
Runtime: 87 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Sep 23, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $53,337,608
Synopsis: In the same vein as EDWARD SCISSORHANDS and NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, Tim Burton continues to combine wholesome comedy and creepy horror with this tale of a mild-mannered Victorian gentleman,... [More]
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Emily Watson, Albert Finney
Director: Tim Burton, Caroline Thompson
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Reviews for Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
"Better Off Dead" would have been a better title choice for Tim Burton's self-indulgently macabre attempt at creating an animated underworld of gleeful singing corpses.
04/15/09
There is a BEETLEJUICE-type of manic energy %u2014 a sense of imagination run riot that makes the film always worth watching, even when the story loses traction
10/21/08
A brilliantly animated, deliciously macabre and strangely touching triumph.
09/07/08
As fun as the film occasionally is, it just plays like a compilation of greatest hits.
08/16/07
Burton thinks in intuitive images, and there are sights here that I would love to have framed on my wall.
07/30/07
In the hands of another director, this material could have been dead on arrival, but for Mr. Burton it's dead on.
07/14/07
Burton definitely follows his own deliriously surreal path that may be more decipherable to a shrink than a movie critic.
03/31/07
Danny Elfman’s catchy songs are all but overwhelmed by Burton and Johnson’s visual embellishments.
05/12/06
If Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was Burton’s big picture for 2005, this is his miniature.
04/01/06
Gloomy, but in a beautiful, compelling way. In fact, the visuals sell the film because the story is entertaining but extremely lightweight.
02/24/06
A quirky, artistic triumph.
01/31/06
...the visuals are so good and the voices so colorful, you probably won't mind the film's minor shortcomings.
01/17/06
All in all, it's what you would ordinarily call an uplifting experience.
01/17/06
There are wonderful voice performances all around...and the animation, particularly of facial expressions, sets a new level of technical accomplishment...but the humor in Corpse Bride feels underpowered...
12/15/05
Divertida, romántica y con mucho más corazón que el resto de los filmes en cartelera, es simple y sencillamente un deleite que no puedes dejar pasar por alto.
11/28/05
After the bloated hit-and-miss feel of many of Burton's recent live-action work it is a joy to experience this throwback to the glory days.
11/22/05
Nothing more than an 81-minute in-joke only two people in the world %u2014 Tim Burton and Danny Elfman %u2014 think is funny. But sometimes self-indulgence is the very thing that makes a filmmaker worth watching.
11/21/05
While not as groundbreaking or thematically complex as "The Nightmare Before Christmas," Burton's latest stop-motion animated film has moments of brilliance and a wonderfully sweet tone
11/13/05
This is another joyously morbid fairy tale from Tim Burton. The mock morbidity is a lot of fun, and it all comes to a heartwarming ending.
11/12/05
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