Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

This is my favorite movie of all time, next to Disney's Tarzan. Corpse Bride is the tale of a boy named Victor and a girl named Victoria, who are in an arranged marriage organized by their respective sets of parents (both of whom are only marrying off their children in the hopes of inheriting wealth and other fortune from the other family). Victor and Victoria are at first not happy about their set marriage, but they soon start warming up to each other through little sweet moments such as exchanging flowers and playing the piano together. During the wedding rehersal, Victor screws up his vows so many times that the pastor angrily sends him out of the chapel to go practice. Victor practices his vows in the forest, and everything goes smoothly as he's practicing...up until he slips Victoria's ring on a fingerlike "branch" in the ground that happens to be the finger of dead Emily, aka the Corpse Bride! By doing this (saying vows and giving ring), Emily is now married to Victor, and she awakens (through a slow, creepy, zombielike scene where she claws her way out of the ground). She chases Victor, kisses him, and he faints. When Victor wakes up, he finds himself in the Underworld with a bunch of skeletons and corpses that live there, and the adventure just escalates from there... Now, it seems a bit outrageous, but it's really just a spooky little Halloween film; a love story with Tim Burton's signature macabre touch. The stop-motion animation is wonderful, the voice-acting is fantastic, and the songs (did I mention that it's a bit of a musical?) are awesome and catchy. Some scenes are a bit frightening, but it's all just really cartoon violence with a bit of a darker feel. Morals are okay- though the parents seem to only care about their image and themselves most of the time, little moments show that they care for their children. Or, at least Victor's parents seem to, haha. There's also a bad guy, but his motives are easy to see and it's very obvious that he's not a role model, as you'll find out in the movie. Long review, I know, but read some of the other reviews on here, preview the movie, and make your final judgement. The Corpse Bride is a wonderful film for Halloween.

This movie came out when I was ten and didn't scare me at all (it was sad though); even though Johnny Depp's in it, he's only a voice actor so little kids don't have to actually see him (I'm fourteen and his live action get-ups frighten me a bit; for small children I'm sure he's the equivalent of the Grudge lady!). :) There is a theme of death in the movie, but nothing graphic or too overly upsetting It's sad though, because the title character (the corpse bride named Emily) was waiting for her fiance to meet her by this tree so they could elope, but he never came, and she died. She pulls this guy named Victor into the Underworld and they soon find themselves engaged to be married, but Victor has another fiancee back in the world of the living, so he has to make a decision-- quick. I found it to be a really sweet (though depressing at times) movie, and I really loved it. It's a good movie for Halloween.

I really liked it. It had awsome animation. Also a great story and good characters. Two thumbs up!

it was entertaining for a cartoon and i really loved it