Tim Burton's Corpse Bride Critic Reviews

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.Read the full review

An endearingly schizoid Frankenstein of a movie, by turns relentlessly high-spirited and darkly poignant.Read the full review

Like all Burton's best work, it takes place in a distorted, vividly colored, meticulously crafted world where whimsy and gleeful ghoulishness mix freely.Read the full review

The movie is so Burtonesque that it verges on self-parody--but it's fun and stunningly beautiful anyway.Read the full review

This stop-action animated feature is downright sweet and tender, as well as all the other things we've come to expect from him -- funny, bizarre, graphically stunning and blithely necrophilic.Read the full review

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

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.Read the full review

Burton, who directed the film with animator Mike Johnson, has rarely been in brisker, friskier form.Read the full review

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.Read the full review