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movie review - Corpse Bride

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is a stop-motion animated musical from Tim Burton, and boy does it show. It features a lovely young woman who was murdered on her wedding night by a rather cartoonish (no pun intended) villain. Along comes a day-dreamer who practices out a wedding performance in the woods and inadvertently places the ring on the desiccated finger of the dead bride, half buried in the woods these long years. Hey presto, a spell is completed and he's married to the corpse. And transported to the land of the dead (because reasons). Needless to say her sudden reanimation in the woods comes as a shock, and then there's the question of his actual bride. Will the (actual) lovers be re-united? What of the shambling corpse? What of the murderer?

I enjoyed this thing due to the superb stop-motion animation and the solid plot and characters and tone. The music's good, the lyrics not so much, but all in I found this an interesting and entertaining follow-up to "Nightmare Before Christmas".

Recommended.