Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

This may be light family entertainment, but it’s also a pleasingly perverse celebration of Victorian morbidity.

As fun as the film occasionally is, it just plays like a compilation of greatest hits.

If Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was Burton's big picture for 2005, this is his miniature.

All in all, it's what you would ordinarily call an uplifting experience.

If you have a pulse, you'll love it.

They just keep going through the same things over and over again. The songs are forgettable.

It is a romance first and foremost, dressed up with Halloween-y scares, spooky supernatural elements, and Tim Burton's usual Hot Topic aesthetic (I mean this in a very good way).

A fine mix of rot and romance.

The animation is exquisite, the songs captivating and the macabre story is told with just the right amount of sweet and spook.

A sweet, moving fantasy, clearly geared towards adults over kids - a quality many of the most effective children's diversions tend to follow.