Rate The Corpse Bride

[TheAuldGrump]

the Peter Lorre character is becoming way too cliche. Especially since I think he died before I was born and most of the young audience would only know him from Bugs Bunny cartoons.

It is statements like this that led me to found the Society for the Preservation of Movie Cliches. Thousands of children are growing up without ever knowing why the hero says 'Frankly Scarlett...'. Please, give generously.

Seriously, sometimes a cliche can fill in entire pages that would otherwise need to be handled with several minutes of exposition. And few recent actors have voices distinct enough to fill that requirement. James Earl Jones, the Governator, few others, and none that I can think of for that particular role.

The Auld Grump, favorite Lorre role - M.

 

[RangerWickett]

I'll have to be a dissenting voice here. I consider Nightmare Before Christmas to be a solid 9. Entertaining, fun, beautiful, a little intriguing (but it wasn't dramatic enough for me to give it a 10).

Corpse Bride I give a 4.

The songs are subpar, and aside from one - the wedding song - they don't have any of the traits I feel musical songs should have. They're neither fun to sing along with, nor emotionally moving, nor cool. The songs in Nightmare had such grandeur, and these songs just felt . . . dinky.

The villain, such as there actually was a villain, was so low key. He wasn't fun to hate. He . . . he wasn't really interesting. And the climax was badly paced. Even considering that the movie was supposed to be Gothic and sickly, as opposed to the lavishly baroque style of Nightmare, it still wasn't that captivating.

I didn't dislike the movie. I just found it very mediocre, which is disappointing from someone with as much experience as Tim Burton. I really can't see how people are rating it as an 8 or 9.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I liked it. Nothing to write home about, but I liked it. I love stop-motion animation, though, and this was done very well. I enjoyed the piano numbers and the Peter Lorre voice (I watched The Maltese Falcon again the other day. Great movie).

On the basis of the good animation, it's a 7.