Corpse Bride (2005)
PG, 77min
★★★★★
How good was peak Tim Burton? How prolific? He made this stopmotion heartbreaker in east London while shooting Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at Pinewood and Johnny Depp starred in both.
“He was Willy Wonka by day and Victor [from Corpse Bride] by night,” Burton said. Some saw Corpse Bride as a sideshow to Charlie, but this animated musical is a moving tale of love and loss that has only gained in stature.
Depp’s Victor Van Dort is the guileless heir to a 19th-century fishing empire whose marriage to winsome Victoria (Emily Watson) is upended when he accidentally proposes to the ghost of the murdered Emily (Helena Bonham Carter). A crackpot love triangle ensues, featuring singing skeletons and the voices of Albert Finney, Christopher Lee and Joanna Lumley. There are witty nods to Gone with the Wind and German expressionism, and the “real world” is drab while the undead land is neon-lit. It’s close to perfect.
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