Corpse Bride

This is the second Tim Burton movie I watched this year. Being an acclaimed director, I do go to his movies with some expectations for some movie magic.

I could not remember much about his last stop-motion movie 'Nightmare Before Christmas', but I assume it must have been great seeing how people tend to talk about it rather fondly.

Without the above said movie for comparison, I can't say for sure whether 'Corpse Bride' fared better.

Both share some similiarities, be they in presentation style, theme or spirit. Some may complain about the apparently more musicals-cum-dialogs in this movie, but some may like it as they think the musicals are smartly written and fit the movie just nice.

One thing I do have to say about the musicals is that sometimes I couldn't catch the lyrics clearly, but thank god the cinema version has Chinese subtitles and the 'occasional' Malay subtitles.

While I do find the story a bit simplistic and the characters a bit stereotypical, in whole it does result in an easier to digest movie experience, and call me wimpy all you want, but I easily shed a tear or two in the final scene :-P So I guess it does have some magical moments, and to me that is all that counts.