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OFCS Rating: 85% Fresh |
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| "A quirky, artistic triumph." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Betty Jo Tucker |
A- | "[Tim] Burton and co-director Mike Johnson have crafted one of the most visually unique films ever made." |
| FromTheBalcony |
| Bill Clark |
| "Easily the best animated work of the year, even if it is very light on morals and heavy on visual bedazzlement." |
| european-films.net |
| Boyd van Hoeij |
C+ | "While the animation wizardry is eye opening, all the technical expertise in the world can’t stop the film from feeling labored, and lacking some serious inspiration." |
| FilmJerk.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
2/5 | "It’s Burton by rote, a by-the-numbers idea of what a Tim Burton fairy tale should be." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| David Cornelius |
A- | "Corpse Bride” has the same visual flair and devilish humor as “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” but it’s a much more charming film." |
| EDGE Boston |
| David Foucher |
B- | "Passes for lightweight but slightly perverse family value entertainment." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
1.5/4 | "The season's first unadulterated disappointment." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
3/5 | "(...) Una celebración original y festiva que confirma el bizarro talento de su creador." |
| Uruguay Total |
| Enrique Buchichio |
B- | "The film is fanciful and whimsical, but only marginally entertaining. It's the kind of movie you see, not the kind you see again." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
3/4 | "Thoroughly charming and visually spry, Corpse Bride has the stylish impishness that made The Nightmare Before Christmas such a devilish treat to behold." |
| Movie Eye |
| Frank Ochieng |
B+ | "Another visually witty stop-motion animation piece that mingles the gleefully macabre and the sweetly sentimental...a winningly lively treat." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
4/5 | "A bittersweet fairy tale set at death's door that salutes the liberating power of true love." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
3/4 | "As animated films go, this is easily the best of a weak year." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
2/5 | "Tim Burton's stop-motion idea of a romantic comedy is dead on arrival." |
| Netflix |
| James Rocchi |
'3.5/4 | "Reeks of Burton-style, borne of a freakish place in the psyche that feeds on the underbelly of things that go bump in the night." |
| Palo Alto Weekly |
| Jeanne Aufmuth |
10/10 | "A rebuke to the current 3-D computer animated takeover of the field, and what a beautiful rebuke it is.
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| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
| "The world of Corpse Bride is a fascinating and darkly beautiful one, but it suffers in comparisons to Nightmare." |
| Pajiba |
| Jeremy C. Fox |
8/10 | "...an entertaining story that doesn’t mind playing things sinister, while keeping things light at the same time..." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
4/5 | "You'd be hard pressed to find a film with this level of visual and storytelling potency this year." |
| FilmFocus |
| Joe Utichi |
7/10 | "...the visuals are so good and the voices so colorful, you probably won't mind the film's minor shortcomings." |
| DVDTown.com |
| John J. Puccio |
| "There’s a lot to admire in The Corpse Bride, an infectious blend of macabre humor, romance, music, and heart." |
| Light Views |
| John Larsen |
| "Despite the predictability of the script, I got a little misty at the end." |
| Planet Sick-Boy |
| Jon Popick |
3.5/4 | "Divertida, romántica y con mucho más corazón que el resto de los filmes en cartelera, es simple y sencillamente un deleite que no puedes dejar pasar por alto." |
| Moviola |
| Jorge Avila Andrade |
4.5/5 | "From a technical standpoint, this is a masterpiece. From a story standpoint, it is a beautiful tale with true heart and meaning. Musically, it is flawed." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
2/4 | "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride shows that imitation is the sincerest form of flattening." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Keith Uhlich |
3.5/4.0 | "... fans of Burton and/or his (last) Nightmare will find plenty to love..." |
| MovieCrypt.com |
| Kevin A. Ranson |
3.5/5 | "Tim Burton fans will love this film. To them, it should be a religious experience." |
| 7M Pictures |
| Kevin Carr |
B- | "pretty good as disappointments go" |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
4.5/5 | "Un hermoso cuento de amor brotado de la penumbra y un canto a la vida, venido desde la misma muerte." |
| Cinenganos |
| Luis Martinez |
4/4 | "Beneath the ghoulish in-jokes and horror-geek allusions, there's a core of the same bittersweet truth that makes the best fairy tales resonate from one generation to the next." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
B | "Corpse Bride continues a perfect marriage between Burton’s creativity and a technique rarely used for feature films.
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| Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema |
| Mark Pfeiffer |
7/10 | "This is another joyously morbid fairy tale from Tim Burton. The mock morbidity is a lot of fun, and it all comes to a heartwarming ending." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Mark R. Leeper |
| "I’ve seen it all before already, in Nightmare [Before Christmas]... It’s enough to make you wonder how limited Burton’s imagination might actually be..." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
3/4 | "Burton and his crew have once again challenged the medium and come with something appealingly unique." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
B | "A goulishly enchanting love triangle with spectacularly spot-on voice talent; every moment is filled with wonderfully witty caricatures and sly macabre humor." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
4/5 | "Tim Burton is batting a thousand for 2005." |
| Film Threat |
| Pete Vonder Haar |
4/5 | "The script and vocal cast turn each character into a vivid bundle of nerves and longings." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
4/5 | "Burton thinks in intuitive images, and there are sights here that I would love to have framed on my wall." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Rob Gonsalves |
B- | "A malnourished effort at best, struggling to fill a mere 76 minutes by stretching its concept thinner than the skeletons that populate its stop-motion underworld." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
C+ | "The story is as weak as the visuals are stunning." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
B- | "I was hoping to be bowled over as I was with A Nightmare Before Christmas but, alas, I was not." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Robin Clifford |
3/5 | "We keep thinking, hoping, and praying that Bride will aim higher, but it never happens" |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Sean O'Connell |
| "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride is a lush, modern valentine to old-fashioned sentiment, and to old-fashioned moviemaking, too." |
| Salon.com |
| Stephanie Zacharek |
B | "A raucous danse macabre in jumping jazz rhythms… and, perhaps most surprisingly, a touching portrait of tragedy, doomed love, empathy, and sacrifice." |
| Decent Films Guide |
| Steven D. Greydanus |
9/10 | "First-rate escapist fun, it's a whimsically wicked, delightfully quirky, ghoulish tale." |
| Modamag.com |
| Susan Granger |
4/4 | "A melancholic, dulcet little ode to love and sacrifice." |
| Film Freak Central |
| Walter Chaw |
3/4 | Read review |
| Big Picture Big Sound |
| Joe Lozito |
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OFCS Rating: 85% Fresh |
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