I am a huge Tim Burton fan. Seriously. I automatically see any movie Tim Burton makes, without even hearing what the movie is about. Usually. But I'm not going to see Corpse Bride. Burton has done a lot of twisted things, including making action figures of children with nails in their eyes and turning Santa Claus into a demonic skeleton, but Corpse Bride just takes it too far. Maybe because I'm married, I feel differently, but the idea of a dead woman brought back to life to get married seems so sad and twisted that even I can't stand to see it. Check that. It's exactly because I'm married. I just don't see anything funny about that.
I've read mixed reviews, from people who think it's better than Nightmare Before Christmas to people who think it's absolutely worthless. I guess I just feel like I won't be missing anything. It sounds like Nightmare Before Christmas crossed with Meet the Parents. But I applaud Burton for continuing to support stop-motion animation. This and Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit keep the dream alive. Take that, Pixar.
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Actually, it's based on an old German folktale: A young man is practicising his wedding vows in the woods when he accidentally proposes to a corpse.
Tim Burton is a sicky though. And no, I have no desire to see it either. Especially because one of the characters is the maggot that lives in her eye socket.
I only hope it does well so we can see more stop-motion animation films.
Well, initially I was interested in seeing it, then my interest waned. Now that you've mentioned the maggot in the eye-socket thing though, maybe I will check it out after all. My big problem with Tim Burton movies though is they always look like they're going to be fantastic and I get my expectations too high.
Oh yeah, and love that stop motion stuff!
Oh, so we have the Germans to blame for this. Those guys sure are sickos. I guess it's not so bad, then. I don't blame Burton. I read that the Corpse Bride was designed after Burton's ex-wife. But I haven't been disappointed with any of Burton's movies, though. Quite the contrary with "Big Fish" and "Charlie." I had low expectations of those, and he delivered big-time.
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