'Corpse Bride' = Excellent. Run, don't walk, to see this.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

[Az]

1. Yessssss masssterrrr

[Radio_Lady]

2. If you can get to see it on HBO, you might enjoy their feature:

"The Making of Corpse Bride"

It's very interesting.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. I love how the puppets resemble the actors, except maybe Christopher Lee.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

5. Christopher Lee doesn't look whacky enough.

Lee's a great actor with lots of charisma, and he can certainly be intimidating when he wants to. But most of his visual schtick is too subtle for a gig like this. So they took his very powerful voice and stuck it on a highly exaggerated character. And it worked.

Back on topic, Corpse Bride is a very enjoyable movie. The story is kind of flat, but the presentation is incredible. Good acting, good visuals, good music.

[SeattleGirl]

13. Thanks Radio_Lady.

I'll let my husband know. I probably won't go see the movie, but he will. I will, htough, probably watch the thing on HBO as I love that stuff!

[SeattleGirl]

4. I'll tell hubby -- he'll probably love it.

I cannot watch Tim Burton puppet films. I tried three times to watch The Nightmare Before Christmas (think that's the name of it), and fell asleep all three times! Don't know why. I love the way the characters are done. Oh well...maybe he put some super-secret hypnotic message in there that only people like me can see: "You're getting sleeeeeeeeepeeeeeeeeee."

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. This is much better than 'Nightmare', IMHO. I, too, was bored by that.

[SeattleGirl]

7. From the trailer, it looks like it.

I'll probably take a chance on it when it comes out on DVD. That way, if I fall asleep, I won't be snoring in public! :boring:

[Orsino]

8. It's marvelous!

Jaw-droppingly gorgeous, every frame. It's got the gleefully horrid visuals you'd expect, having seen A Nightmare Before Christmas or Beetlejuice, but this time around, it's a sweet little love story, perfect in every way, as was Edward Scissorhands.

It's only an hour-and-a-quarter long. It might be called a musical, but there are only four real song-and-dance numbers; the beautiful score supports the action magnificently. Danny Elfman did wonderfully.

I'll buy the DVD, but you owe it to yourselves to see this thing on the big screen.

[WindRavenX]

9. Fantastic movie

BTW did you guys catch that the jazzy skeleton had Ray Charles' signature sunglasses on it? :D

[bleedingheart]

10. Just saw it tonight with the kids...they loved it... based on a sad tale

"BACKGROUND;

The Corpse Bride is a story based on actual events that occurred in 19th century Russia, at a time when anti-semitism was widespread in eastern Europe. Very often bands of anti-semites would waylay a Jewish wedding party on their way to the wedding. And because the bride would be the one to bear future generations, she would be ripped out of the carriage and murdered.

She would then be buried in her wedding gown.

"

To read the original Russian fairy tale...read it here...

http://www.timburtoncollective.com/corpse.html#folk


made me cry...so sad...

[grannylib]

11. I can't wait! Is there music? Is it any good? Every year while we

decorate for the holidays, my daughter and I are singing, "making Christmas, making Christmas" in the eeriest voices we can manage...and then when we put it away, we sing "un-making Christmas...."
I love Tim Burton...what a fuckin' genious.

[Lone_Pawn]

12. Yes, there is.

And it's absolutely phenomonal. "Remains of the Day," a number telling the story of the Corpse Brider herself, is up there with anything in Nightmare.

[grannylib]

14. Oh this will be good. Sarahbellum and I will have to see it soon!

[BuelahWitch]

15. I saw it Friday and loved it

Best movie I've seen in ages.

[targetpractice]

16. Loved it, but continuity errors... (SPOILER)

I absolutely loved this movie and anyone who sees it will be impressed by the attention to detail. "The Corpse Bride" was perfect in almost every way.

That said, I was surprised by the following continuity error that upset my overall suspension of disbelief for a bit...

(SPOILER FOLLOWS...)

Emily's left arm and right leg were decayed and she was left with mere bones in their place, correct? Indeed, the fact that these limbs were skeletal remains formed the gist of several visual jokes (e.g., removable skeletal arm, clumsy skeletal leg causing Emily to trip in the forest, etc.)

However, when Emily was singing about her heartbreak in her coffin/bed... she had two shapely fully-formed (but ghastly blue) legs. I expected her to have had a only a bare femur/tibia for a right leg, no?

Tell me. Am I being too picky? ;) Ah well, maybe they'll fix it for the DVD special edition... giggles.

[bleedingheart]

17. actually the one leg which did have bone...if you looked carefully

the skin was hanging down by the ankle...looked like a sock that needed to be pulled up....
So perhaps when she is lying there with two shapely legs...it is because she pulled that skin back up...????