Who played the Corpse in Corpse Bride?
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Corpse Bride (also known as Tim Burton's Corpse Bride) is a 2005 British-American stop-motion animated musical dark comedy film directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton with a screenplay by John August, Caroline Thompson and Pamela Pettler based on characters created by Burton and Carlos Grangel. The plot is set in a fictional Victorian era village in Europe. Johnny Depp leads the cast as the voice of Victor, while Helena Bonham Carter voices Emily, the titular bride. "Corpse Bride" is the third stop-motion feature film produced by Burton and the first directed by him (the previous two films, "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "James and the Giant Peach", were directed by Henry Selick). This is also the first stop-motion feature from Burton that was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was dedicated to executive producer Joe Ranft, who died in a car accident during production.
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The story could almost be a sequel to an earlier Bela Lugosi movie, "The Corpse Vanishes" (Each bride at her wedding was given an orchid, which she sniffed before passing out. In "The Corpse Vanishes", Bela played a doctor who captured the brides and took some kind of liquid from each bride's body and injected it into his wife to make her temporarily young again. Characters included his wife, an old woman, the old woman's grown son, and a dwarf.) In "Bride of the Monster", Bela again plays a doctor doing experiments, but his only housemate/assistant is Lobo, and when his experiment fails to turn someone into an "atomic-powered superman", he throws the dead subject to an octopus or an alligator, similar to what Bela did in "Murders in the Rue Morgue".
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The Corpse Vanishes is a 1942 American mystery and horror film starring Bela Lugosi, directed by Wallace Fox, and written by Harvey Gates. Lugosi portrays a mad scientist who injects his aging wife (played by Elizabeth Russell) with fluids from virginal young brides in order to preserve her beauty. Luana Walters as a journalist and Tristram Coffin as a small town doctor investigate and solve the disappearances of the brides.
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Steven Rea of "The Philadelphia Inquirer" gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying "Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride" is easily the best stop-motion animated necrophiliac musical romantic comedy of all time. It is also just simply, wonderful: a morbid, merry tale of true love that dazzles the eyes and delights the soul." Bill Muller of "The Arizona Republic" gave the film four out of five stars, saying ""Corpse Bride" is a delightful mix of strange goings-on and imaginatively crafted puppetry, a wild ride through Burton's chaotic, splendidly original world." Michael Booth of "The Denver Post" gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying ""Corpse Bride" will win your heart, if it doesn't rip it out of your chest first." Terry Lawson of the "Detroit Free Press" gave the film three out of four stars, saying "There's a happy Halloween in store even for children who aren't allowed to trick or treat, and it's courtesy of Tim Burton's animated "Corpse Bride"." Bruce Westbrook of "The Houston Chronicle" gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying "Amazingly fluid and drop-dead gorgeous, Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride" is the best-looking, stop-motion animation film ever." Rene Rodriguez of the "Miami Herald" gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying ""Corpse Bride" suffers from the same problem that has plagued Burton's recent live-action films: for all its formidable razzle-dazzle, it doesn't engage the heart." Colin Covert of the "Star Tribune" gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying "This vibrantly imaginative mix of horror and humor puts the f-u-n in funeral."
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Liam Lacey of "The Globe and Mail" gave the film three out of four stars, saying "Ghoulishness and innocence walk hand-in-hand in Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride", a movie that digs into Hollywood's past to resurrect the antique art of stop-motion animation and create a fabulous bauble of a movie." Jack Mathews of the "New York Daily News" gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying "Stop-motion animation may be the hardest and most tedious job in Hollywood, but the makers of Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride" deserve a couple of years in Tahiti celebrating their effort." Lou Lumenick of the "New York Post" gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying "Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride" is an instant classic." Lisa Rose of the "Newark Star-Ledger" gave the film three out of five stars, saying ""Corpse Bride" offers unclassifiable enchantment." James Berardinelli of "ReelViews" gave the film three out of four stars, saying "As animated films go, this is easily the best of a weak year." Peter Howell of the "Toronto Star" gave the film four out of four stars, saying "If his "The Nightmare Before Christmas" from a dozen years back was a treat for the eyes and mind, Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride" goes double or nothing by being a delight for the ears and also the heart." Joe Williams of the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" gave the film a B+, saying "Beneath the bone pile of allusions, "Corpse Bride" is a darkly enchanting fable in its own right."
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Andrew Sarris of "The New York Observer" gave the film a negative review, saying ""Corpse Bride" turns out to be a ponderous mixture of puppetry and animation that is far too technologically complex and laborious for this hopelessly Luddite reviewer." Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars, calling it "A sweet and visually lovely tale of love lost." Roger Moore of the "Orlando Sentinel" gave the film four out of five stars, saying "The sweetness, the visual flourishes and inspired pieces of casting carry the "Corpse Bride", if not all the way down the primrose path, then at least across the threshold." Robert K. Elder of the "Chicago Tribune" gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying "If "Nightmare Before Christmas" was a jazzy pop number, "Corpse Bride" is a waltz--an elegant, deadly funny bit of macabre matrimony." Kenneth Turan of the "Los Angeles Times" gave the film two out of five stars, saying "The film does have a fairy-tale aspect, but, like many of its characters, it is more dead and buried than fully alive." Claudia Puig of "USA Today" gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying ""Corpse Bride" is an unexpectedly touching celebration of love told in a quirky and inventive style." Peter Travers of "Rolling Stone" gave the film three and a half stars out of five, saying "In the guise of a family film, Burton evokes a darkly erotic obsession that recalls Edgar Allan Poe and Hitchcock's Vertigo. It would be a test for any filmmaker, and Burton aces it."
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"Corpse Bride" received positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 84% approval rating with an average rating of 7.2/10 based on 189 reviews. The site's consensus reads: "As can be expected from a Tim Burton movie, "Corpse Bride" is whimsically macabre, visually imaginative, and emotionally bittersweet." Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 based on top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 83 based on 35 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". The film was nominated for the 78th Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but lost to "". In 2008, the American Film Institute nominated this film for its Top 10 Animation Films list.
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On the day of Alice Wentworth's wedding, mad scientist Dr. Lorenz sends the young bride an unusual orchid, the scent of which places the young woman in a state of suspended animation resembling death. He then spirits her body away to the basement laboratory of his isolated mansion and extracts glandular fluid from behind her ears to inject into his vain and aged wife in order to renew her youth and beauty. This is only the latest in a series of brides who appear to die at the altar and whose corpses subsequently vanish en route to the hospital or mortuary, and the police are thoroughly stymied.
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In film, her credits include the animated films "Monster House", "Corpse Bride" and "9". The latter two films involved Tim Burton, who directed and produced "Corpse Bride" and produced "9", which was directed by Shane Acker. In 2003, Pettler was hired to do a rewrite of Burton's 2005 film adaptation of the book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". In 2008, Pettler was hired to write a film adaptation of the board game "Monopoly", with Ridley Scott attached as director, however the film has since been stuck in development hell. She also cowrote the screenplay for the upcoming computer-animated "The Addams Family" film, based off the comics by Charles Addams.
Pamela Pettler
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Justin Chang of "Variety" gave the film a positive review, saying "This macabre musical about a young bridegroom who mistakenly weds a girl from beyond the grave is an endearingly schizoid Frankenstein of a movie, by turns relentlessly high-spirited and darkly poignant." Kirk Honeycutt of "The Hollywood Reporter" gave the film a positive review, calling it "A wondrous flight of fancy, a stop-motion-animated treat brimming with imaginative characters, evocative sets, sly humor, inspired songs and a genuine whimsy that seldom finds its way into today's movies." Michael Atkinson of "The Village Voice" gave the film a positive review, saying "The variety of its cadaverous style is never less than inspired; never has the human skull's natural grin been redeployed so exhaustively for yuks." Owen Gleiberman of "Entertainment Weekly" gave the film a B, saying "As an achievement in macabre visual wizardry, Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride" has to be reckoned some sort of marvel." Manohla Dargis of "The New York Times" gave the film four out of five stars, saying "Cinema's reinvigorated fixation with the living dead suggests that we are in the grip of an impossible longing, or perhaps it's just another movie cycle running its course. Whatever the case, there is something heartening about Mr. Burton's love for bones and rot here, if only because it suggests, despite some recent evidence, that he is not yet ready to abandon his own dark kingdom." Moira MacDonald of "The Seattle Times" gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying "What makes "Corpse Bride" sing, ultimately, is the breadth of imagination that it demonstrates; creating a cluttered, textured and mysteriously beautiful world that we're loathe to leave at the end."
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