Corpse Bride

REVIEW: 5/5 STARS

Tim Burton's film Corpse Bride is a perfect choice for my special edition Halloween movie review post for this week. As someone who does not generally enjoy the classic horror film, this is a great choice for parents with children especially to watch in order to celebrate the Halloween spirit without scaring their children too much. The animation in this film adds a slight childish nature however still depicting a classic Halloween fright with its characters and the back-and-forth action between the land of the living and the land of the dead.

The movie centers around the main character Victor, who is to be engaged to the beautiful Victoria, with the impression that with this marriage, both families will gain wealth. The secret the audience learns however is that both families are actually poor. Although Victor and Victoria have never met before, it is love at first sight when they do. Through some clumsiness on Victor's part, he accidentally ruins the wedding and finds himself wandering a forest, trying to fix his mistakes. However, due to more foolishness on his part, proposes his vows to a tree and places the ring on a twig. The tree magically (in a horrifying sense) becomes a corpse bride who has now become his wife. Victor faces a series of issues through this movie as he has to come to grips about his new reality and new bride as well as how to get back to his real love Victoria.

I found the animation to be brilliant in this film and the character voices were perfectly cast, as expected from a Tim Burton film. Although the storyline is a bit typical at first, the added scary Halloween twist pulls you in right away and takes you to another world to explore, turning it into quite a unique movie. A wonderful movie to really watch any time of the year, but especially perfect during the time of Halloween to get you into the spirit.

Check out the trailer below for a preview!