Another stop motion animation feature produced by Tim Burton which is based on a Russian folk tale. With songs and Johnny Depp.

Great. This is somethign to look forward to.

Well I saw it this weekend and mostly enjoyed it. But there were only four songs. I was kind of expecting it to be like The Nightmare Before Christmas in that it was virtually an operetta.

I saw this on DVD a few days ago. I thought that I wasn't going to like it--it looks so incredibly bleak to start with. But it grew on me. The animation is marvelous. The bonus sections on the making of the movie were fascinating. I would like to know, however, just what the special "something" is that gives it the touch of realism. I saw how the puppets were crafted, and the ingenious gadgetry that gave the main puppets their incredibly flexible expressions. They even showed some "test" runs with several characters. However, in looking at the "behind the scenes" shots, it is obvious that these are dolls being manipulated. Even the test shots of them in motion, although smooth and seamless, looked like dolls. In the movie itself, they look "real". Is it the lighting?

One semi-nit: in the scene where they are singing the background story of the Corpse Bride, a future plot point becomes very obvious, so the surprise near the end is no surprise at all.