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(1 - 47) of 47 OFCS Rating: 83% Fresh Page   1   "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 D+ ""Better Off Dead" would have been a better title choice for Tim Burton's self-indulgently macabre attempt at creating an animated underworld of gleeful singing corpses."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 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."   DustinPutman.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 "Another Burtonesque blur of wise-guy nudging and romantic exhilaration"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce 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. "   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 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 3/4 "In the hands of another director, this material could have been dead on arrival, but for Mr. Burton it's dead on."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 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 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. "   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 "There is a BEETLEJUICE-type of manic energy %u2014 a sense of imagination run riot that makes the film always worth watching, even when the story loses traction"   ESplatter   Steve Biodrowski 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  (1 - 47) of 47 OFCS Rating: 83% Fresh Page   1