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I wasn't that keen on this film when I first saw it but after seeing it again, I really liked it. Just like Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline, Corpse Bride is a fun family film but it can be quite scary for children. It has a few moments when body parts are missing and they sew them back together again. It is like animated comic violence. Corpse Bride is a very dark film that is awesome for adults as well as children. These kind of animated films are absolutely amazing! In fact, they are my favourite kind.
Corpse Bride is Johnny Depp's fifth collaboration with Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter's fourth with Tim Burton. Johnny provides the voice of Victor and Helena provides the voice of the Corpse Bride. Set in aa 19th century European village, Victor, a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious Corpse Bride. Victor inadvertently married the Corpse Bride. Victor's real bride Victoria waits bereft in the land of the living. Though life in the Land of the Dead proves to be a lot more colorful than his strict upbringing, Victor learns that there is nothing in this world ? or the next ? that can keep him away from his one true love. Victor and Corpse Bride look like Johnny and Helena but in animation. I think because of this, it inspired Tim to do drawings for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street of Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett and they look just like them.
This was the second Tim Burton film that I saw just after Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. Despite, I really like both of these films, I wasn't a massive fan of Tim Burton but Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street and Edward Scissorhands changed all that. It is the same kind of animation as Nightmare Before Christmas but this time, Tim directs this one not Henry Selick. Tim Burton managed to release two films on the same year which he has never done before. I want to see Tim do another animated film. Perhaps, not like it about the living and the dead like Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride.
Corpse Bride is a very enjoyable film but isn't as good as Nightmare Before Christmas. Wallace And Gromit In The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit is the best animated film of 2005. Corpse Bride is a fun Tim Burton that is neither one of his best nor one of his worst. It is a very fun film that should be watched by everybody!
8/10
