Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride is a charming, quirky, stop-motion-animation movie based loosely on a 19th century Russian-Jewish folktale version of an older Jewish story and set in a fictional Victorian era village. Directed by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson, and filmed at 3 Mills Studios in London. Johnny Depp led an all-star cast as the voice of Victor and Helena Bonham Carter (for whom the project was specially created) as the voice of the title character. I watched ‘Sweeny Todd’ before this movie, and was very dissapointed with Burton’s ‘Sweeny Todd’, but this was back to Burton’s great style and themes. Showing Burton's trademark style and recurring themes between light and darkness, and of being caught between two worlds. Life is portrayed as boring and dully gray tinted in the underworld, while death is more fun, as evidenced... [read full story]