| The most mysterious and top secret project in the animation community has finally arrived after many years….so was it worth the wait? For fans of Tim Burton, most likely a resounding YES. For animation fans, especially the stop-motion lovers, assuredly a resounding YES. For everyone else? We’ll have to see. The box office is certainly promising. The audience for this film is a little bit ambiguous…it’s too grotesque for young children, a perfect date movie for teenagers, too strange for most average adults and ultimately made for animators.
For myself, both an animator and Tim Burton fan, I can say that I had a smile on my face the whole time, and can see myself watching it again, buying the DVD, the whole thing. The only reservation I would have is that it’s for the design, the animation, and especially a few specific sequences that this would be the case, but not necessarily because I found it moving or that I got very involved with the characters, because I felt their development was lacking. It’s absolutely stunning to watch…the character designs are phenomenal and hilarious, and the look of the film just oozes Burton out of its very sprockets. The jokes are actually funny….even the corny ones are clever. The scenes of the Corpse Bride rising from the grave, and the wonderful piano duet are, from a filmmaking perspective, moments that you remember as ‘classic’ sequences up there with the best of them. The masterful work raises the art form to a whole new level. But compared to Nightmare Before Christmas, the only other Burton feature project of its kind, I missed the brilliant and understandable lyrics, and the passion of Jack Skellington and Sally. Perhaps the technique got too overwhelming for the heart to completely shine through.
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