Warner Bros
2005 - Rated PG - 1 hr 17 min
Director: Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, Albert Finney, Richard E. Grant, Christopher Lee, Deep Roy
Tim Burton and his usual cast of characters are animated this time, yet still as eerie and dark as usual. The premise is a strange one - nervous groom-to-be accidentally marries a dead girl when he recites his vows as practice in the woods. You know, the kind of thing that happens every day.
As Mike and I discussed while watching this one, it's as bittersweet as Burton's other movies. Even when the characters have it all resolved in the end, there's still this unaddressed sadness within them. In this movie, our corpse bride is about as cheerful as Edward Scissorhands. Really, there can be no happiness for her, only resolution.
This is another one of those animated movies for adults that kids might also like (because it has singing?). It's not really kids movie subject matter, but it's presented in a way that's friendly for all ages. Still, do you want your kid thinking he can accidentally marry dead people? That'll be a confusing conversation... Enjoy.
For me this was kind of the flip side of Nightmare Before Christmas. In that "Nightmare" was best when they were singing and the rest only kind of worked, and here the straight scenes are best and most of the songs feel tacked on.
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