Corpse Bride (directed by Tim Burton & Mike Johnson)

[Sacha]

In spirit for Halloween, I watched Corpse Bride (directed by Tim Burton & Mike Johnson) for the first time. I really like Tim Burton movies, so I figured I would give this movie a try, since I also really like how Burton's animated movies look. This movie is about 15 years old now, but I think the movie would be just as good if it were released today.

Starring Johnny Depp (Victor) and Helena Bonham Carter (Emily), Victor is arranged to marry a girl named Victoria. Despite the unpleasantness of both of their families, they luckily like each other. Victor practices his wedding vows in the woods, but the corpse of a woman named Emily emerges, believing that he had been proposing to her. He is essentially trapped with her, while she doesn't know that he is to be married. Victor must get back to the land of the living before Victoria is married off to another man.

This movie starts the viewers off with a place where everything is gray, mainly due to the characters, who are mundane and practically never happy. However, later on in the movie, we are brought to the world of the dead, where everything is quite the opposite: everybody is happy and feeling act more alive than the people in the town the viewers had previously seen. I really enjoyed that aspect of the movie, because many films make death appear as dark and scary, but this movie does the complete opposite.

Though I watched this movie for Halloween, this is not a scary movie at all. In fact, it's more comforting than anything. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it and would definitely watch it again.

5/5 stars