The story is beautifully worked out, and it gets most of its momentum from the feelings of the characters. "Corpse Bride" was written by John August, Caroline Thompson and Pamela Pettler, and as a piece of storytelling, it holds up admirably against any live-action script. But that world is home to Victor, and he aches to get back to it.
So Emily conveys Victor to the Land of the Dead, an underground world rendered in vivid jellybean colors, a far cry from the muted gray Victorian reality Victor knows. And she desperately wants Victor to be her husband, even though he's betrothed to someone else. Her heart, she notes, is capable of being broken even though it has stopped beating. But by a curious turn of events, Victor accidentally stumbles into the world of Emily, the Corpse Bride (Helena Bonham Carter), who was killed by her intended on her wedding day. They fall in love, of course, at first sight. The families decide to merge by arranging a marriage between their respective children, Victor (Johnny Depp) and Victoria (Emily Watson), who, as of the night before the wedding, have never even met. Canned-fish magnates Nell and William Van Dort (their voices belong to Tracey Ullman and Paul Whitehouse) have money but no class and Maudeline and Finis Everglot (Joanna Lumley and Albert Finney) have aristocratic roots but no dough. "Corpse Bride," which Burton co-directed with Mike Johnson, begins with a wedding gone wrong. This is filmmaking straight from the land of the undead. It's in touch with the real world, yet out of step with it. "Corpse Bride" isn't the sort of thing you see every day. So while the story that's told in "Corpse Bride" - a Victorian Gothic romance adapted from a Russian folktale - is affecting in itself, the vitality and beauty of the textures and movement on-screen have a special poignancy.
Stop-motion animation of the sort Burton uses here - and that he and director Henry Selick also used in the glorious 1993 "The Nightmare Before Christmas" - has been virtually wiped off the filmmaking landscape in favor of CGI.
The visual and narrative beauty of "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride" captures the essence of that line - it hurts a little to watch the movie, not just because it's so deeply touching but because the medium itself is calling out to us from a lost world. But the pain I feel is the pain of fleeting joy."
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In Michael Almereyda's funny, ardent and moving vampire picture, "Nadja," the title character, a downtown-Manhattan descendant of Count Dracula's, sums up the exquisite suffering of her lot: "Life is full of pain.
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