| Posted by: Desslar at February 5, 2006, 3:49 am | | Topic: Corpse Bride DVD Review: Dead and Married Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by ilovemovies I hated The Nightmare Before Christmas but despite that I was still looking forward to Corpse Bride namely because I loved the trailer. But boy was this movie disappointing. The good news is that it's not as bad as The Nightmare Before Christmas but the bad news is it was still a huge letdown. The animation was cool and there were a few clever moments here and there. But the songs were forgettable and the movie was at best just mildly amusing. There wasn't much of a story, it was WAY too short. And when the movie was over, it only felt like a half a movie to me. It just wasn't satisfying. And the movie itself was fairly forgettable and utterly disposable. So, basically it's a meh. 5/10 Yeah, "meh" sounds about right. Of course if you hated Nightmare then it was pretty unlikely you were going to like this. I felt the biggest letdown was the 3rd grade humor. It's rare to hear puns that bad in a feature film. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: ilovemovies at February 5, 2006, 3:00 am | | Topic: Corpse Bride DVD Review: Dead and Married Forum: JoBlo | | I hated The Nightmare Before Christmas but despite that I was still looking forward to Corpse Bride namely because I loved the trailer. But boy was this movie disappointing. The good news is that it's not as bad as The Nightmare Before Christmas but the bad news is it was still a huge letdown. The animation was cool and there were a few clever moments here and there. But the songs were forgettable and the movie was at best just mildly amusing. There wasn't much of a story, it was WAY too short. And when the movie was over, it only felt like a half a movie to me. It just wasn't satisfying. And the movie itself was fairly forgettable and utterly disposable. So, basically it's a meh. 5/10 | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Desslar at February 4, 2006, 1:37 pm | | Topic: Corpse Bride DVD Review: Dead and Married Forum: JoBlo | | 6/10 Whilst the animation community has been loudly decrying the seeming demise of traditional 2D animation at the hands of flashy 3D CGI, an even more old fashioned art form has been slowly gathering steam. Stop motion, in which physical character models are painstakingly repositioned frame by frame, provided 2005’s two most critically acclaimed animated films, the first being Tim Burton’s macabre romance Corpse Bride. That it was not amongst the year’s very most profitable animated films is unfortunate, but perhaps due to the family audience’s curious preference for zoo animals over maggot-infested cadavers. Loving Burton and stop motion I was thrilled to see Corpse Bride garner so many rave reviews. Alas, I find myself merely liking the film. It is undeniably a monumental technical achievement, marrying highly detailed and smooth animation with Burton’s distinctively deranged visual flair. Just watching the characters interact is enough to bring a smile to the face of animation fans, although not as broad... | | Read Entire Entry |
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