Corpse Bride
Posted on September 24, 2005 at 07:46 PM EST
This afternoon I went and saw the movie, Corpse Bride. I was expecting to see mostly adults in the theater since the tale is rather gothic and dark, but surprisingly there were many kids in the audience.
The movie is based on a 19th century Russian folktale of a groom who marries a zombie. The story was well written and the animation was absolutely flawless and smooth. It was so good that I found it hard to believe that it wasn’t entirely computerized. It was only 75 minutes long, which was rather short, but understandably so. There were many tech firsts for this movie, one of them being that it was the first feature-length movie shot using stop-motion animation, which is the most labor-intensive method of making a film. The figures have to be set in position, photographed, then moved a fraction of an inch then shot again, and the process is repeated again and again. A minute or so of footage can take an entire week to produce.
This is definitely one of my favorite animated movies and I highly recommend going to see it, especially if you’re a fan of Tim Burton. Also be sure to check out the website as it’s one of the best Flash sites that I’ve seen in a while.
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