Tim Burton’s "Corpse Bride" is a mixture of different genres: animation, comedy, romance, musical and fantasy. The main actors lending their voices to the film characters are: Johnny Depp (as Victor Van Dort), Helena Bonham-Carter (as the Corpse Bride), and Emily Watson (as Victoria Everglot).

Everything takes place in the XIX century in a small Victorian country. A young man Victor has to marry Victoria, a daughter of the aristocratic family the Everglots. But there is a problem. Victor is worried about the engagement and wedding. When the wedding preparations go wrong, he goes into the forest to practise his wedding vows. He puts a ring on a piece of wood imagining that it is a woman’s hand. Then Victor is taken into the land of the dead to marry a corpse. Of course he misses his fiancée Victoria and wants to come back home.

I like this film because it has some characteristic features of all Burton’s movies: there is a villain, dead cats and dogs, skeletons, weird characters with unnaturally long legs, short feet and shadows around their big eyes. The director uses the computer graphics of Edward Gorey. The music in the film, composed by Danny Elfman, is really good. The characters sing in some parts of the film, which gives it a special atmosphere.

I think that you won’t waste your time watching this gripping film!