Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

Theatrical Release Date: 2005 09 16 (USA - Limited) / 2005 09 23 (USA)

UPC: 012569593510

Studio: Warner Home Video

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Adult Language, Watch With Your Kids, Scary Moments]

Summary: Tim Burton returns to the dark but fanciful animated style of The Nightmare Before Christmas with this stop-motion black comedy. Victor (voice of Johnny Depp) lives in a small European village in the 19th century, where he is pledged to marry Victoria (voice of Emily Watson), a partnership arranged by their parents. The two only meet the day before their scheduled nuptials, and Victor performs disastrously in the wedding rehearsal. Later that evening, while he is walking through the woods and hopelessly practicing his vows, he puts Victoria's wedding band on what looks like a branch. Victor quickly discovers this was a big mistake; as it happens, he has put the ring on the skeletal finger of the enchanted Corpse Bride (voice of Helena Bonham Carter), who then whisks him off to a dark and mysterious netherworld where they are now married. Victor is frightened in the land of the dead, and even realizes that he has fallen in love with his true fianc?e, Victoria, so he searches for a way back to his own world. Directed by Tim Burton in collaboration with animator Mike Johnson, Corpse Bride features a stellar voice cast, including Albert Finney, Christopher Lee, Richard E. Grant, Joanna Lumley, and Danny Elfman (who also composed the film's musical score). ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Category: Fantasy

Awards: Film Presented – Venice International Film Festival Best Animated Feature – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Animated Feature – Online Film Critics Association Producer of the Year - Animated Film – Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year - Animated Film – Producers Guild of America Best Animated Feature – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Animated Feature – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Features: ccInside the Two Worlds
Danny Elfman interprets the Two Worlds
the animators: the Breath of Life
Tim Burton: dark vs. light
Voices fron the underworld
Making puppets tick
The voices behind the voice
The Corpse Bride preproduction galleries
Theatrical trailer
Music-only track

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 01/31/2006

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 77 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French,Spanish

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Corpse Bride
1. Credits [2:19]
2. According to Plan [4:07]
3. What Impropriety! [4:16]
4. Underrehearsed [3:44]
5. Corpse Bride [4:22]
6. Wedding Feast [1:38]
7. Remains of the Day [3:26]
8. Fugitive Groom [3:21]
9. Scraps [3:06]
10. Ukrainian Haunting Spell [:54]
11. Bad Feelings [1:59]
12. The Other Woman' [2:55]
13. Tears to Shed [3:35]
14. No Help for Victoria [3:27]
15. A Wedding After All [2:58]
16. Duet for Roving Hand [2:34]
17. Picking up the Pieces [3:07]
18. Corpse Groom Required [2:47]
19. The Wedding Song [2:06]
20. Reunions [3:18]
21. His Two Brides [3:29]
22. Duel to the Death [3:55]
23. Set Free [3:30]
24. End Credits [2:14]

Derek Armstrong

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride is essentially a reunion of every actor, composer, or animator the director has ever worked with. This is good news if you're a Burton fan, not such good news if his familiar milieu has worn thin. Those entranced by Burton's gothic stylings will find Corpse Bride resembling an obvious source of inspiration, the drawings of Edward Gorey, perhaps more than anything Burton has filmed. The blue-tinted, chiaroscuro world of the living is practically an homage to Gorey's work, full of jagged angles, caricatures ranging from gaunt to rotund, and gnarled, haunting beauty. It's when Burton goes downstairs to the world of the dead that Corpse Bride begins feeling like a lazy rehash of his own work. This full-color revue of singing skeletons is his third such visitation to a land of campy undead, following Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas. The cheekily grotesque whimsy of these characters, with their removable body parts and PG-rated gore, felt fresh in those films, but here it just seems perfunctory and warmed over. Danny Elfman's lyrics and songs have also lost their charm to the point of anonymity, and his score, complete with its standard complement of ethereal choral voices, is as much a tired self-allusion as anything Burton's guilty of. Perhaps if the plot were sturdier, these elements wouldn't be so noticeable. Some obvious reservations aside, Corpse Bride is overall a winning achievement, as Burton's collaborators mostly continue to excel at what they do. The vocal talent is evocative, notably Helena Bonham Carter (Burton's "collaborator" in more than one way) as the forlorn corpse bride herself. It's just that such great things are expected of Burton as a visual trailblazer, it can't help but be disappointing when he doesn't go very far off the path. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Danny Elfman  Actor 
Stephen Ballantyne  Actor 
Jane Horrocks  Actor 
Enn Reitel  Actor 
Christopher Lee  Actor 
Lisa Kay  Actor 
Deep Roy  Actor 
Paul Whitehouse  Actor 
Joanna Lumley  Actor 
Richard E. Grant  Actor 
Enn Reitel  Actor 
Paul Whitehouse  Actor 
Jane Horrocks  Actor 
Albert Finney  Actor 
Paul Whitehouse  Actor 
Michael Gough  Actor 
Tim Burton  Director 
Tim Burton  Producer 
Danny Elfman  Composer (Music Score) 
Joe Ranft  Executive Producer 
Caroline Thompson  Screenwriter 
Allison Abbate  Producer 
John August  Screenwriter 
Jeffrey Auerbach  Executive Producer 
Pamela Pettler  Screenwriter 
Mike Johnson  Director 
Johnny Depp  Actor 
Helena Bonham Carter  Actor 
Emily Watson  Actor 
Tracey Ullman  Actor 

Country: UK,USA