The Corpse Bride
Feb. 6th, 2006 02:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockRented it tonight. Doing so was a bit anticlimactic-- I can't decide if I'm glad I only spent five dollars on it, or if I would have been more enthused if I'd seen it on a large screen for 10 dollars. It's sort of in the middle, for me.
I found the movie to be cute and entertaining-- I expected it to be those, and it didn't disappoint. The animation was lush and stylistic, and the voice-acting was excellent. The story itself was good, if a tad predictable by older audiences. Still, I didn't find it as endearing and fascinating as A Nightmare Before Christmas. It's hard to explain why, but I'm pretty sure it's not just the lack of the always-endearing Christmas element.
The Corpse Bride was pretty and weird, but it still felt... average. Like your normal animated film you'll enjoy and then promptly forget-- like Ice Age. A Nightmare Before Christmas, on the other hand, was so original and bizarre and different---in ways that had everything to do with story and not at all the stop-motion animation. The storyline, the characters...Nightmare was the most eccentric holiday-themed animated family movie I'd ever seen. I mean, the king of Halloween having Santa Claus kidnapped to take over his job because he's having the ghoul eqivalent of a midlife crisis? That's arty and weird, but at the same time the celebration of the holiday spirit is there and the end result is incredibly endearing and memorable. Although the stop-motion animation gave Nightmare a distinctive look that grabbed the attention of audiences, I love it for the storyline far more than for the animation (which, to be frank, freaked me out a little in a few particular scenes), and I think that it was the strength and uniqueness of the story that made the film popular, and the animation was a vehicle for that.
In comparison, The Corpse Bride was just kind of cute. I'd watch it with my younger cousins, but I wouldn't consider buying the DVD for my own entertainment value.
But as rentals go--- I recommend it fo all audiences and ages. It's a good movie, and it's by Tim Burton. What else do you need to know? Go rent it! :D
I found the movie to be cute and entertaining-- I expected it to be those, and it didn't disappoint. The animation was lush and stylistic, and the voice-acting was excellent. The story itself was good, if a tad predictable by older audiences. Still, I didn't find it as endearing and fascinating as A Nightmare Before Christmas. It's hard to explain why, but I'm pretty sure it's not just the lack of the always-endearing Christmas element.
The Corpse Bride was pretty and weird, but it still felt... average. Like your normal animated film you'll enjoy and then promptly forget-- like Ice Age. A Nightmare Before Christmas, on the other hand, was so original and bizarre and different---in ways that had everything to do with story and not at all the stop-motion animation. The storyline, the characters...Nightmare was the most eccentric holiday-themed animated family movie I'd ever seen. I mean, the king of Halloween having Santa Claus kidnapped to take over his job because he's having the ghoul eqivalent of a midlife crisis? That's arty and weird, but at the same time the celebration of the holiday spirit is there and the end result is incredibly endearing and memorable. Although the stop-motion animation gave Nightmare a distinctive look that grabbed the attention of audiences, I love it for the storyline far more than for the animation (which, to be frank, freaked me out a little in a few particular scenes), and I think that it was the strength and uniqueness of the story that made the film popular, and the animation was a vehicle for that.
In comparison, The Corpse Bride was just kind of cute. I'd watch it with my younger cousins, but I wouldn't consider buying the DVD for my own entertainment value.
But as rentals go--- I recommend it fo all audiences and ages. It's a good movie, and it's by Tim Burton. What else do you need to know? Go rent it! :D
