TIM
BURTON'S
CORPSE BRIDE
Our
Score: 6/10
IMDb Score: 7.8
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Corpse Bride had the potential to be truly a wonderful, heart
wrenching tale,
but wound up just too short and undeveloped to make it happen.
The movie cries out for another chapter and sadly we are denied.
With a running time of 75 minutes though
there isn't any room for substantial development which is unfortunate.
The character Emily had so much heart and her one contribution
musically had some nice lyrics, though overall I found the songs
lacking other then the piano piece which was terrific but doled
out in
too few increments.
CB lacked the cuteness, the wit, the humor and charisma of
Nightmare
Before Christmas, and the potential in glimpses we get here
and there
are merely teases in a movie that ends up feeling like a mismanaged
script, rushed out the door with too little clothes on.
The ending was also rushed and the butterfly sequence not as
strong as
it could have been if we were given more time to fall in love
with
Emily. She had potential and we do get those glimpses like I
said, but
too few and far between.
The beginning starts off rather cliché, but at midpoint
picks up in a
story twist that is fantastic if you didn't know it was coming.
Worth watching but I felt more tantalized then gratified.
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