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Jul 26, 2013ManMachine rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
There's no good bride like a Corpse Bride?_____ Believe me, I really wanted to like Corpse Bride a whole lot, but I only liked it just a little._____ Almost right off the bat I realized just how bored and, yes, tired I've grown of Tim Burton's dark, dank visions and all of their prevailing morbidity._____ What struck me as really quite odd about Corpse Bride's story was the exaggerated emphasis that was put on all of the "liveliness" that took place down in the Land of the Dead. Yeah. Things down below the earth were definitely about 100 times more "lively" than anything that was taking place in the Land of the Living._____ And if things weren't disappointing enough as it is, there was no denying that Corpse Bride's whole storyline was terribly wonky and disjointed like you wouldn't believe._____ And, what's more, the entire effect of the stop-motion animation was so dazzlingly slick and seamless that it looked identical to CGI, which, in a way, defeated the whole idea of stop-motion._____ Yep. As far as I'm concerned, Corpse Bride was better off dead than alive. And that's that!