Thankfully Corpse Bride didn't turn out to be a dreadfully frightful movie. I expected nothing but the best from Tim Burton and while a thoroughly enjoying movie, it paled in comparison to Nightmare Before Christmas.
It didnt have the life and vivacity of Nightmare, which had the brilliant fascinating Jack Skellington, sad Sally, Evil Scientist, the cunning Lock, Shock and Barrel, and oh the vampires! I loved the vampires...
Instead it's got the sombre Victor, the sombre Victoria, the vivaciously dead Corpse Bride, the hilarious Elder Gutknecht (who like the Evil Scientist lives in a tower), and instead of Lock, Shock and Barrel, there are two little dead kids. How sweet.
Corpse Bride's underworld set also wasn't as fascinating as Halloween Town's and the humour a tad more corny... especially the stuff that the maggot sprouts.
"If I hadn't just been sitting in it, I would say that you'd lost your mind!"
So while you'll still see Nightmare Before Christmas paraphernalia being hawked at pasar malams for a few more months now - more than 10 years after the movie was originally released - I doubt there'll be Corpse Bride bags and dolls and keychains coming up soon.
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
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