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Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005)
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Made around the same time as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, this wonderful fantasy appeared in what was a vintage year for fans of the director. This exquisitely crafted example of stop-motion animation puts a hip spin on a Russian folk tale, with shy Victor Van Dort (voiced by Johnny Depp) wandering into the woods to practise his marriage vows and ending up spliced to a corpse (Helena Bonham Carter) — a passionate, blue-hued beauty with a maggot living in her eye. She whisks him off to a curiously vibrant subterranean land, but this enchanting world and his new bride's increasingly apparent charms are little comfort to Victor when he'd rather be hitched to his living, breathing fiancée Victoria (Emily Watson) above ground. There's a strong resemblance here to Burton's previous foray into feature animation, The Nightmare before Christmas, but this time the gothic morbidity is tinged with more sweetness, and the consistently funny and often lyrical script is far better. LF
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Running time
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73mins
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Country of origin
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UK / US
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Genre
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Animated Fantasy
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Alternate title
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Corpse Bride
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Original language
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English
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Screenplay
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Pamela Pettler, Caroline Thompson, John August, from characters created by Tim Burton, Carlos Grangel
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Theatrical distributor
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Warner Bros
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UK cinema certificate
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PG
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UK cinema release date
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October 2005
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