Tim Burton's Corpse Bride - Filmless Review

As I spoke of previously, we definitely need more dancing zombie women in the media. I cannot be SURE that the zombie woman/women in this film dance, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it happens at some point. Credit for that.

This movie is about a man in 19th Century Europe that gets sent to the underworld and married to a... buckle your seat belts for this one... CORPSE BRIDE. It turns out that his non-zombie fiance is none too pleased. Hilarity, drama and assorted other things ensue.

This seems to a solid picture, but I have some qualms. Let's begin:

1. Didn't Tim Burton put out Willy Wonka like 5 minutes ago? This guy is notorious for vanishing from the Hollywood scene for years at a time. I'm aware that work on this movie probably started years ago; but so what? I can complain about ANYTHING*. Either way, we can't have Mr. Burton over-extending himself. Things like this result. Don't try to tell me that movie didn't suck.

2. It looks a tad too similar to The Nightmare Before Christmas, which is one of the key films of my childhood. I suppose I could go into detail about that in the future, but I'm not very good with keeping plans on here. If this movie were to somehow tarnish the greatness that is Jack Skellington and his travails, I would never forgive Burton... even though he made that movie too, which makes my vow kind of unreasonable. Refer back to the *.

3. He's dating the person that voices the co-lead of the film (Helena Bonham Carter). As a man of such moral fiber, I find this kind of nepotism abhorrent. At least when it doesn't benefit me.