Corpse Bride 2005

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Corpse Bride suffers from the same problem that has plagued Burton's recent live-action films: for all its formidable razzle-dazzle, it doesn't engage the heart. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: What makes Corpse Bride sing, ultimately, is the breadth of imagination that it demonstrates; creating a cluttered, textured and mysteriously beautiful world that we're loathe to leave at the end. Read more

Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: If Nightmare Before Christmas was a jazzy pop number, Corpse Bride is a waltz--an elegant, deadly funny bit of macabre matrimony. Read more

David Edelstein, Slate: The movie is so Burtonesque that it verges on self-parody -- but it's fun and stunningly beautiful anyway. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: They just keep going through the same things over and over again. The songs are forgettable. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The movie is a bit betwixt and between -- whimsical but eerie, funny but melancholy. That said, Corpse Bride truly is like nothing else at the movies these days. Read more

Tasha Robinson, AV Club: All too often, Tim Burton's movies feel like they're covered in flop sweat, as if he's trying too hard and worrying too much. By contrast, Corpse Bride is a cool breeze across the brow. Read more

Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Corpse Bride is a delightful mix of strange goings-on and imaginatively crafted puppetry, a wild ride through Burton's chaotic, splendidly original world. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Burton has rarely been in brisker, friskier form. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: The film does have a fairy-tale aspect, but, like many of its characters, it is more dead and buried than fully alive. Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Amazingly fluid and drop-dead gorgeous, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride is the best-looking, stop-motion animation film ever. Read more

Michael Booth, Denver Post: Corpse Bride will win your heart, if it doesn't rip it out of your chest first. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: As an achievement in macabre visual wizardry, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride has to be reckoned some sort of marvel. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Corpse Bride isn't merely eye candy; it's a masterpiece of motion, color and texture that never stops dazzling. Read more

Mark Olsen, L.A. Weekly: Corpse Bride is a rather unblessed union. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: Cheerfully macabre and unexpectedly soulful. Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Corpse Bride offers unclassifiable enchantment. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Stop-motion animation may be the hardest and most tedious job in Hollywood, but the makers of Tim Burton's Corpse Bride deserve a couple of years in Tahiti celebrating their effort. Read more

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: A necrophiliac entertainment for the whole family to enjoy, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride marks the director's latest venture into the world of stop-motion animation. Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Corpse Bride turns out to be a ponderous mixture of puppetry and animation that is far too technologically complex and laborious for this hopelessly Luddite reviewer. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The sweetness, the visual flourishes and inspired pieces of casting carry the Corpse Bride, if not all the way down the primrose path, then at least across the threshold. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: As animated films go, this is easily the best of a weak year. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A sweet and visually lovely tale of love lost. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Tim Burton's Corpse Bride is a lush, modern valentine to old-fashioned sentiment, and to old-fashioned moviemaking, too. Read more

Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: Corpse Bride has the look and feel of the best puppet show ever. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: This vibrantly imaginative mix of horror and humor puts the f-u-n in funeral. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Beneath the bone pile of allusions, Corpse Bride is a darkly enchanting fable in its own right. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Ghoulishness and innocence walk hand-in-hand in Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, a movie that digs into Hollywood's past to resurrect the antique art of stop-motion animation and create a fabulous bauble of a movie. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: If his The Nightmare Before Christmas from a dozen years back was a treat for the eyes and mind, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride goes double or nothing by being a delight for the ears and also the heart. Read more

Dave Calhoun, Time Out: As fun as the film occasionally is, it just plays like a compilation of greatest hits. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: An unexpectedly touching celebration of love told in a quirky and inventive style. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: This macabre musical about a young bridegroom who mistakenly weds a girl from beyond the grave is an endearingly schizoid Frankenstein of a movie, by turns relentlessly high-spirited and darkly poignant. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: 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. Read more

Teresa Wiltz, Washington Post: Based on a Russian folk tale, Corpse Bride makes for breathtaking viewing. Read more