Tim Burton Movie

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005)

Well I didn't expect this to be a musical.  Tim Burton's Corpse Bride is a tale about a lanky stop motion animation character who attempts to get married but dies and marries someone else.  On it's surface the movie is creeepy, and this is exactly why I didn't watch it as a child.  Regardless of the grey-blue setting in a dreary town filled with dead people, the characters are all designed with such dramatic proportions they all might as well be dead.  Though this turned me off from the movie at first, ending makes a beautiful and light-hearted come back that seems to brighten the entire outlook of the movie.  So the setting is convincing, okay, but what about the characters!  Despite the plot being unbelievably unrealistic, the characters reactions and feelings all seem so genuine that I'm intrigued the entire way.  I care for the undead bride, I care that she's constantly unliving an unfulfilled proposal and drowning in her misery.  She's so miserable she wants to marry the boring protagonist!!  This film has interesting and catchy music numbers that seem to be the only light in the dark setting.  All in all, Corpse Bride would be a very good children's movie to challenge their perspectives, and I had a good time watching it.

7/10