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Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Corpse Bride is the latest animation to hit the silver screens. Painstakingly made and beautifully presented, it's a masterpiece of animation - but it's not funny enough to take the prize.
Corpse Bride is a joy to watch and the kids will love it - but ultimately it lacks a little character compared to the genre leaders, which must surely be a consequence of using puppets. Definitely worth your money to see it though - it's hard to be disappointed with quality such as this. I enjoyed this film: I think the average moviegoer will enjoy it: Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: To enjoy this film you should: not expect it to be another Wallace and Gromit.
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Corpse Bride, or Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, to give it its full title, is made with stop-frame animation. That is,
the characters, puppets in this case, are moved a fraction, photographed, then moved again. I'm a little suspicious of this
claim. Parts do look like they're done this way, but some of the movement is just ... well, too good. I find it
very hard to believe that they didn't do the tricky bits with CGI. No matter though, whichever way you look
at it, it's fabulous animation - the characters are gorgeous to look at. There is one problem though - I kept thinking that
the voices didn't match the characters and couldn't think why. Eventually I twigged that it was because the mouths don't
shrink when they talk - so when the bride's voice says, "I do," her mouth says, "I dah." It sounds like a minor thing,
but it really distracts at times and seems bizarre when so much effort has been put into the rest of the production.
Perhaps it's a trick to make us believe it's done using puppets after all!
The voice acting is excellent by the main players, with Emily Watson giving a particularly special earthly bride and
Helena Bonham-Carter as the dead one, showing she didn't just get the part by giving the director a son.
Michael Gough, best known as
Alfred the butler from the Michael Keaton Batmans is similarly wonderful as the wise old skeleton. Danny Elfman,
responsible for the music in nearly all of Tim Burton's movies, visits the other side and has a go at acting himself,
being surprisingly good as the musical Bonejangles. Maybe this distracted him, because the songs seem to stir things
up a bit rather than fitting in - but then I've never been a fan of songs in movies so that might just be me! Standing
alone, Corpse Bride is fantastic - but unfortunately it has to compare with stunningly good movies such as
