Dead people? Check. Black humor? Check. Johnny Depp? Check. Yep, it’s another Tim Burton film, and this one’s a love story. A young man on his way to his wedding stops to practice his wedding vows. He puts a wedding ring on a stick poking out of the ground, and waxes eloquent upon it. Turns out the stick is the desiccated finger of a murdered girl, who rises from the grave demanding to start her new life as a wife, to the horror of her poor groom. Set in nineteenth century Europe and rendered in the same stylized, sensual live animation Burton used for Nightmare Before Christmas, this warm, funny, and macabre film is visually stunning. Kudos to Burton; no one else can get the dead to get up and dance quite like this guy can.
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