Till "Death" Do Us Part...

Finally got to see Tim Burton's Corpse Bride with my gf earlier. Although we missed the 1st 10 minutes or so of the movie, we didn't miss the rest of it. Nice graphics and animation. A little drab but given the ghoulish factor, it wasn't too bad. Nice storyline but my gf found it uninteresting. Oh well, probably it was too short anyway. At roughly 1 hour 10 minutes in running time, it wasn't exactly the best of animated films anyway.

It did have some funny scenes but they were outnumbered by the constant reminder of death. The characters however were really interesting, like for example, the maggot side-kick of Emily, the widow spider, the pirate captain and of course, the dude with the body cut into two halves.. :p

In comparison with other animated movies like Chicken Run and even Wallace and Grommitt, I'd say those two win hands down. The Corpse Bride had a good storyline, but when you try and weave in stuff like murder and conspiracy, it gets just a little way beyond the "animated" factor. With the good animation and song pieces, I'd say it gets a few points, but the whole entertainment factor wasn't fully there.

Oh well, lets see how the next movie fares. Until next time.. Till "Blaah" Do Us Part..