Is Corpse Bride A Good Movie?

Corpse Bride is a Tim Burton animated film that tells the story of Victor Van Dort (Johnny Depp) and Victoria Everglot (Emily Watson), two families who prepare for their arranged marriage. The film is a whimsically macabre, visually imaginative, and emotionally bittersweet tale, with multiple references to dead bodies, skeletons, decay, and decay. The film is centered around Victor, a painfully awkward young man who is about to be entered into an arranged marriage.

The film is a stop-motion-animated treat, with Helena Bonham Carter as Emily, the Corpse Bride, giving the dead character lively emotion. The color scheme in the film is near-black and white, making it a striking element. The story is well-written, and the music is good.

Corpse Bride is a perfect Halloween movie, celebrating the dead through its unexpected wedding, the Victorian era, Burton’s approach to the macabre, and an emotional rollercoaster through its three acts. It is a departure from Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas movie due to its usage of digital film and CGI.

The Corpse Bride, named Emily, is a sympathetic character, not a frightening one. The three core characters, Emily, Victor, and Victoria, are all sympathetic, authentic characters caught in an awkward situation.

While Corpse Bride is not a bad movie, it is part of a growing category of films with a macabre theme. Although it may be cliched, it is a great movie, especially for Halloween as it has a nice macabre theme. Overall, Corpse Bride is a fantastic film that educates viewers about life and death in ways others may not have considered.

Did Victor ever love Emily?

After thinking Victoria gave him a rebound since he’s married, why not get married too? Heartbroken, Victor decided to devote himself to Emily. He even agreed to give up his life for her. But Victor didn’t love Emily. He might have only agreed to marry Emily out of sympathy. He tried to apologize to Emily for being different. Despite his nervousness, Victor is brave in urgent situations. He fought Lord Barkis with a fork thrown to him by Mrs. Plum during his and Emily’s wedding ceremony. Lord Barkis was armed with a sword.

Plot. Victor’s family are fish merchants who recently became rich by inventing canned fish. Victor was unsure of marrying someone he didn’t know until he met Victoria, Finis and Maudeline’s daughter. They fell in love and before they could have a romantic moment, they were called for the wedding rehearsal.

Does Victor actually love Emily?

After thinking Victoria gave him a rebound since he’s married, why not get married too? Heartbroken, Victor decided to devote himself to Emily. He even agreed to give up his life for her. But Victor didn’t love Emily. He might have only agreed to marry Emily out of sympathy. He tried to apologize to Emily for being different. Despite his nervousness, Victor is brave in urgent situations. He fought Lord Barkis with a fork thrown to him by Mrs. Plum during his and Emily’s wedding ceremony. Lord Barkis was armed with a sword.

Plot. Victor’s family are fish merchants who recently became rich by inventing canned fish. Victor was unsure of marrying someone he didn’t know until he met Victoria, Finis and Maudeline’s daughter. They fell in love and before they could have a romantic moment, they were called for the wedding rehearsal.

Is Corpse Bride a sad story?

Reviews On Rotten Tomatoes, the film gets 84% approval based on 197 reviews, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The critics say that Corpse Bride is a whimsical, visually imaginative, and emotionally bittersweet Tim Burton movie. Metacritic gave it an 83 out of 100 based on 35 reviews, indicating universal acclaim. CinemaScore polled audiences and gave the film an average grade of B. Justin Chang of Variety gave the film a positive review, saying it’s an endearingly schizoid Frankenstein of a movie. Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review, calling it a wonderful, imaginative film with creative characters, sets, humor, songs, and a sense of whimsy. Michael Atkinson of The Village Voice liked the film, saying it has a variety of styles and uses skulls in a funny way. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave it a B, saying it’s a great achievement in visuals.

How was the corpse bride killed?

After waiting in the dark forest, Emily was robbed and killed by Barkis. We don’t know how she died. Barkis knows how to use a sword, and Emily said he left her for dead. It’s likely he stabbed her and left her in the woods to die. Before she died, she promised to stay under the tree until her true love asked her to marry him, so she could be free.

Emily comes out of the ground to accept Victor’s marriage proposal.

Emily was buried under the tree for 8 or 9 years before meeting Victor Van Dort. When Victor was practicing his wedding vows, he put his ring on her hand by mistake. This caused Emily to rise from her grave. She took Victor to the Land of the Dead. He learned her story and agreed to marry her to return to the land of the living.

What’s the message behind Corpse Bride?

Victor thinks he has a responsibility to these women and is willing to act on it. His feelings are seen in this light. As Chattaway says, it shows that we should love our spouse, not just anyone. Victor belongs with one of these brides, not the other. The film imagines the afterlife as a fun version of Earth. Our dead loved ones are basically the same as we knew them in life. Ultimately, it’s the line between life and death that matters. The dead are neither in heaven nor hell. They are not in purgatory either. The film suggests that this broken-down version of life after death may not be our ultimate destiny. What that ultimate destiny is is unclear. The film’s final shot can be interpreted in different ways. Chattaway’s blog post explains this well. This post starts by saying my review of Just Like Heaven made most of the points Chattaway wanted to make about that film. He and I agree on these two quasi-preternatural romances between a man and a woman. Corpse Bride is darker and more mature than The Nightmare Before Christmas. Nightmare put a spooky Halloween twist on the old Rankin-Bass holiday specials like “Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” but there was still room for Christmastown and Santa Claus. The world of the living is more lifeless than the world of the dead.

Why is the corpse bride so good?

Corpse Bride is a treat for the whole family. A funny movie. It’s a satisfying ghost story.

Movie Reviews by Type. All Critics ; Top Critics ; All Audience ; Verified Audience ; ; This is light family entertainment, but it’s also a celebration of Victorian morbidity. It’s a romance with Halloween-y scares, spooky supernatural elements, and Tim Burton’s usual style.

Is Corpse Bride inappropriate?

SEX/NUDITY 1 – A corpse wears a low-cut dress that reveals cleavage and thigh and femur throughout the movie. A man dances with the corpse. A woman is in a tight corset that shows cleavage and bare shoulders.

VIOLENCE/GORE 4 – Corpses are shown in various stages of decay. Some have missing skin, limbs, etc. One corpse is a severed head on beetles. Another can be seen from the side. One corpse’s eye pops out. There is a green maggot in the eye socket. Others are skeletons.A man puts a ring on a buried corpse’s finger. The hand grabs him and pulls him down. He pulls away and the hand comes off. He panics and runs. The hand chases him. The corpse comes out of the ground. It chases the man until he hits a tree a few times. Many crows swoop and caw at him.A man holds a sword to a woman’s throat. Another man intervenes and they fight. One man has a sword and the other has a fork. The man with the fork pokes the other man a couple of times. The man with the sword lunges at the other man. A corpse stands in the way and is stabbed through the chest. We hear that a man murdered a woman and stole her jewels. A man says to a woman, “I left you for dead.” A skeleton tells a corpse to kill a man to keep him with her. A man says a woman will die soon.A man drinks from a chalice and dies. He is surrounded by corpses carrying knives and forks. He screams and is pushed into a room, and the door is closed. A man coughs and falls off his seat. When he lands, we see his feet are pointing upward and twitching. He is dead. A corpse pulls a sword out of another corpse. Green liquid flows from the cavity and into his drinking mug. A corpse pulls a sword out of another corpse’s head. A corpse has a hole in his chest. A man cuts the heads off fish with a cleaver. A corpse’s eye pops out of the socket, a skeleton’s head pops off, and a corpse splits in half. Corpses stir a pot. One corpse’s nose falls into the pot and his eye dangles from a string. Some corpses go to a dinner party. One loses an eye in a man’s soup bowl. We hear a pop and see it floating in the soup. A hand pops off while a woman plays the piano. It moves across the keys and up a man’s arm. A skeleton scratches his skull and one skull plate moves up and down. A corpse’s cheek is missing, showing her teeth. A man and a corpse dance and when he twirls her, her arm pops out. A corpse dances and her leg breaks (she goes back to get it). Some skeletons dance, their bones clank, and they remove their heads. A man opens a box of bones, which come together to make a dog. A man and a corpse climb stairs in a dark tower, where there is thunder and lightning. Many zombies surround a woman with a walker. She hits one of them in the head with the walker.Two people grab a woman and take her to a house. They lock her in her room. A man drives a horse-drawn carriage recklessly and nearly hits a woman with a walker. A woman tries to break a door lock with a fireplace poker. A man drops a ring under a woman’s skirt. He retrieves the ring but sets her skirt on fire. People panic and try to put out the flames. Everyone yells at the man and glares at him. One man points a finger at him. A skeleton squeezes a crow and it lays an egg. A skeleton makes a potion (he pulls a feather off a crow and drops it in), then drinks it, burps loudly, and we see the liquid pouring through his chest. We hear bones rattling and clanking as corpses move. A corpse hits herself on the head and a maggot comes out of her ear and falls to the ground. There are barrels of severed arms in a secondhand shop. A maggot says to a man, I used to live in your dead mother. A corpse becomes butterflies. Two dogs sniff each other. A spider has six eyes and talks about being a widow. A man gets hit on the head with a cane. A woman gets stuck in a horse-drawn carriage door and two men push her through. A woman climbs out a window, falls to the ground, and runs through the rain to a church.

SUBSTANCE USE – Corpses drink alcohol in bar scenes. A man smokes a pipe in many scenes. He also coughs a lot.

Is The Corpse Bride dark?

The title of Corpse Bride is unsettling yet inviting. The movie has a light and dark atmosphere, but love unites the two. This movie is more adult. It’s more adult than Tim Burton’s other films. The story is about a confusing romance. A younger audience might misunderstand the love story. The movie is about Victor, who is planning his wedding to Victoria. They fall in love without even meeting. Is that true? As the movie goes on, Victor can’t seem to get his vows right. He rehearses his vows and puts the ring on a twig. That wasn’t true. It was Emily’s (Corpse Bride) dead finger. Emily died on her wedding day. She’s back and wants to make Victor happy. She doesn’t know Victor has fallen in love with Victoria. Meanwhile, Victoria’s parents are about to marry her off. But all three are unhappy. One of them is dead. This movie is well put together. All of Burtons films are. It has an eerie tone with a happy message. Most movies back then tried to be happy. I recommend this movie for family nights, movie recommendations, or any occasion. 4/5.

What age is appropriate to watch Corpse Bride?

A classic Halloween movie with a spooky theme. I was worried it would be short, but it wasn’t. The ending is great. It’s rated PG, but it’s PG-13 because of alcohol, tobacco, and violence. I recommend it.

A sweet, cute movie. I love Tim Burton’s work. I like the live-action stuff better, but the animated films remind me of when I was a kid. My daughter loves this kind of artwork and animation too. My daughter is 8, so she knows about marriage and death. There are some jokes for adults, but this is a great movie for the whole family. There are references to bones, maggots, and death, but in a silly Halloween style. It has singing, fantasy elements, and the dead/Underworld. It’s all in fun, so I don’t have any issues as a parent.

Why did Emily not marry Victor?

Emily is willing to help those she cares for, even if it means giving up her own happiness. She stops Victor from killing himself and lets Victoria be with him. She’s usually kind, but Victor encouraged her to marry him. (Even though he was alive and she was dead). She was jealous of Victoria and thought Victor didn’t love her because she was dead. She planned to marry Victor, even though it would make Victoria unhappy. She learns not to use her emotions for selfish reasons. She saw how depressed Victoria was and saved her from marrying Barkis. She learns that she can’t steal happiness just to achieve her own. She decides to stop her wedding with Victor so he and Victoria can be happy. She takes off her wedding ring, gives it back to Victor, and leaves the church. Emily is at peace.

Biography. Emily was the daughter of a wealthy Victorian-era family. She was educated in music. She surprised Victor with her piano skills. She was also known as a beautiful woman, which suggests she had many admirers. Emily met Lord Barkis Bittern, a poor man she fell in love with. Her parents didn’t approve because he was poor. Barkis convinced Barkis to elope with him using his charm when her parents rejected her marriage proposal. They met at 3 a.m. under an oak tree in the woods. On that foggy night, Emily left wearing her mother’s wedding dress and carrying a small fortune (a gold bag with the family jewels) with her, the last at Lord Barkis’ request. The young lady didn’t know her groom-to-be only proposed to steal her family’s fortune.

What killed the Corpse Bride?

Emily is the main character in Corpse Bride. She is a reanimated corpse who was a wealthy lady in her lifetime. She also claims to be the bride of Victor Van Dort. Her ex-fiancé killed her and indirectly killed himself shortly before she was freed, so she could finally enter Heaven.

Appearance. Emily was tall and beautiful with a slim figure. She was just as plain and dull as the rest of the living. Bonejangles says Emily was beautiful. She’s still graceful as a corpse. Her lips are purple, and her skin is blue.

Is Corpse Bride a love story?

Neil Gaiman said, “A world with monsters, ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world with angels, dreams, and hope.” This world has many scary things, like being insecure, loving someone, being rejected, being poor, and dying. Life is uncertain. It could be taken away from us at any moment. If we are sure about how we feel about something or someone, death is worth it if it means a better life for the person or thing we love. People like Cleopatra and Mark Anthony, as well as Romeo and Juliet, killed themselves because the world tried to destroy their love. In Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, we see how far his characters are willing to go for love. The characters overcome their fears and find peace. This movie is great because of Burton’s unique style. He makes scary things seem less scary. Some say this film is too sad for kids. But it teaches important lessons about love, overcoming fears, growing up, and death. It’s a must-see.

Overcoming. We all have insecurities. We all have things about ourselves we don’t like. But we can overcome anything if we try. Maya Angelou said, “The real difficulty is overcoming how you think about yourself.” In the Corpse Bride, Chris Huntley describes character development on Dramatica.com. Victor learns to be more confident. He overcomes his insecurities about marriage and being a good spouse to Victoria through his adventures with Emily. The movie starts out dreary, like most Burton films. A writer from the Silver Petticoat Review says the land of the living is “Dickensian with a haunting and melancholy atmosphere.” The living world is still stunning, with lots of gray, brown, black, and dark blue. The dead world is full of bright colors. (Review) The film starts with Victor and Victoria getting ready for the wedding rehearsal. They are both very tense. They agreed to an arranged marriage for money and status, and Victor seems nervous about the wedding vows. Victor’s dad, Nell Van Dort, says, “Look at how you’re standing.” “You look like you’ve got rickets.” (Bride) Victor goes for a walk in the woods to clear his head and practice his wedding vows. While he’s practicing, he puts his ring on a tree branch. The hand grabs his arm and Victor struggles to free himself. Then a corpse in a wedding dress and veil appears and says, “I do” (Bride). The corpse bride, Emily, thinks Victor is her husband and takes him to the Land of the Dead. From then on, Victor’s worries are gone and he repeats his vows perfectly at his wedding. Tim Burton made Victor a relatable character, showing us that we can overcome scary things. This brings us to another scary point: death.

Death. What a scary word. Death is scary. It’s scary because it goes into the unknown. Tim Burton shows in Corpse Bride that death doesn’t have to be scary. He makes his films look sad and peaceful, using bright colors. Tim tries to make Corpse Bride less sinister for kids by using color, songs, and humor. A YouTuber named KungFuKuya says Tim’s work is great. “Burtons worlds are set in Victorian and gothic England. They feel like nightmares, but also like dreams. You could escape from reality,” says Kuya. Sometimes we all wish we could escape reality and just daydream. Tim Burton’s movies make us laugh and think about the afterlife in new ways. A post on Artifice.com explains the dark themes of the movies well. It says that when the audience sees the contrast between the living and the dead, it makes them think that death can be better than life on earth. This life has many good things, even though it has problems. At first, it seems that Burton thinks that life is bad. He says life is worth living at the end of the movie, when Emily says, “I’ve spent so long in the dark, I’ve almost forgotten how beautiful the moonlight is.” Emily is surrounded by blue butterflies, which represent her life being complete and her fear of death being gone. Right before this, Emily had just confronted her murderer and released Victor from his marriage to her so he could marry Victoria, his former fiancée. Emily shows great maturity here, which is important in life.