A New Nightmare; Director Tim Burton Returns to the Same Sort of Visual World He Created in the Nightmare Before Christmas with Corpse Bride.

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In Corpse Bride, [Tim Burton] again retreats into a universe that mixes Rankin-Bass with Grand Guignol, and once again finds effortless enchantment where his live-action films have often seemed to strain too hard. The plot upon which Burton hangs this production hinges on an arranged marriage between Victor Van Dort (voiced of Johnny Depp) and Victoria Everglot (Emily Watson). It's a match that makes sense for both families, but not for the anxious pair who have never met.

It's not merely incidental that Burton and company employ old-school stop-motion animation. There's an undeniably tactile quality to the places and characters in Corpse Bride that make them somehow more real - ironically, probably more real than many of the places and characters Burton has attempted to create in live-action films. Many of the characters may not have a pulse, but this world sure does.

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A New Nightmare; Director Tim Burton Returns to the Same Sort of Visual World He Created in the Nightmare Before Christmas with Corpse Bride.

It only takes the first few moments of Tim Burton's Corpse Bride to realize that the filmmaker is unquestionably in his element. Strangely stylized characters - all vertigi...

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