Corpse Bride

4.00
    Corpse Bride
    2005

    Synopsis

    Set in a 19th-century European village, this stop-motion animation feature follows the story of Victor, a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride Victoria waits bereft in the land of the living.

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    Cast

    • Johnny DeppVictor Van Dort (voice)
    • Helena Bonham CarterCorpse Bride (voice)
    • Emily WatsonVictoria Everglot (voice)
    • Tracey UllmanNell Van Dort / Hildegarde (voice)
    • Paul WhitehouseWilliam Van Dort / Mayhew / Paul the Head Waiter (voice)
    • Joanna LumleyMaudeline Everglot (voice)
    • Albert FinneyFinis Everglot (voice)
    • Richard E. GrantBarkis Bittern (voice)
    • Christopher LeePastor Galswells (voice)
    • Michael GoughElder Gutknecht (voice)

    Recommendations

    • 100

      The Hollywood Reporter

      A wondrous flight of fancy, 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.
    • 90

      Variety

      An endearingly schizoid Frankenstein of a movie, by turns relentlessly high-spirited and darkly poignant.
    • 90

      Village Voice

      Corpse Bride never skimps on the sass (as a good folktale shouldn't). And the variety of its cadaverous style is never less than inspired; never has the human skull's natural grin been redeployed so exhaustively for yuks.
    • 88

      Rolling Stone

      It's warped and wonderfully effervescent. Ditto the songs by Danny Elfman, who sings the role of Bonejangles, the frontman for a skeleton jazz band at a swinging underworld club. Best of all is the love story.
    • 88

      USA Today

      Features the season's most tragic heroine along with some of the liveliest dead people ever seen on film.
    • 80

      The New York Times

      There is something heartening about Mr. Burton's love for bones and rot here, if only because it suggests, despite some recent evidence, that he is not yet ready to abandon his own dark kingdom.
    • 75

      ReelViews

      As animated films go, this is easily the best of a weak year.
    • 75

      Entertainment Weekly

      As an achievement in macabre visual wizardry, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride has to be reckoned some sort of marvel.

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