Movie Review: Corpse Bride

Corpse Bride: Torgo approves

Visually, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride is both amazing and disappointing. The surface world is terrific, peopled with bizarrely disproportionate characters. Albert Finney's model, in particular, is just fun to watch.

But then we go below ground, to the world of the dead, and it's less exciting. I expected more dazzling imagery, but the spider and maggot look like Disney's hand-drawn animation, not the crafted, wacky models of the living world.

That said, the movie goes by too quickly to be bothered by such things. It's barely an hour and a quarter, so even the thinness of the plot doesn't have time to grow tiresome.

I was frustrated with some of the similarities to Burton's Beetlejuice (such as the two-world marriage theme), but overall Corpse Bride is a pleasant enough way to spend a short evening.