This may be light family entertainment, but it’s also a pleasingly perverse celebration of Victorian morbidity.

Full Review | Jun 29, 2022

As fun as the film occasionally is, it just plays like a compilation of greatest hits.

Full Review | Aug 16, 2007

If Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was Burton's big picture for 2005, this is his miniature.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

All in all, it's what you would ordinarily call an uplifting experience.

Full Review | Jan 17, 2006

If you have a pulse, you'll love it.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 11, 2005

They just keep going through the same things over and over again. The songs are forgettable.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2005

Arguably Burton's most self-assured turn behind the camera in ages.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 26, 2005

All too often, Tim Burton's movies feel like they're covered in flop sweat, as if he's trying too hard and worrying too much. By contrast, Corpse Bride is a cool breeze across the brow.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2005

More so, other than being an astonishing feast for the eyes there isn't much here a person is likely to remember after they've left the theater, none of the jokes or sight gags good enough to talk about latter standing at the water cooler.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 24, 2005

Beneath the bone pile of allusions, Corpse Bride is a darkly enchanting fable in its own right.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Sep 23, 2005

Based on a Russian folk tale, Corpse Bride makes for breathtaking viewing.

Full Review | Sep 23, 2005

What makes Corpse Bride sing, ultimately, is the breadth of imagination that it demonstrates; creating a cluttered, textured and mysteriously beautiful world that we're loathe to leave at the end.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 23, 2005

Corpse Bride has the look and feel of the best puppet show ever.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2005

The sweetness, the visual flourishes and inspired pieces of casting carry the Corpse Bride, if not all the way down the primrose path, then at least across the threshold.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2005

Corpse Bride suffers from the same problem that has plagued Burton's recent live-action films: for all its formidable razzle-dazzle, it doesn't engage the heart.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 23, 2005

Amazingly fluid and drop-dead gorgeous, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride is the best-looking, stop-motion animation film ever.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 23, 2005

There's a happy Halloween in store even for children who aren't allowed to trick or treat, and it's courtesy of Tim Burton's animated Corpse Bride.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2005

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride has just about everything I look for in an animated feature: visual wit, high-flying displays of imagination and lots of rotting flesh.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Sep 23, 2005

Corpse Bride will win your heart, if it doesn't rip it out of your chest first.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 23, 2005

Burton has rarely been in brisker, friskier form.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 23, 2005