Film: Corpse Bride (2005)
Showing: Christmas Eve, 6pm, ITV1
Why It’s A Must-See: It could so easily have been hokey as hell, given that an uncharacteristically simpering Tim Burton made it purely as a vehicle for his artfully dishevelled baby momma, Helena Bonham Carter.
Then again, it’s essentially a slicker stop-motion big sister to The Nightmare Before Christmas, and it reunites the golden triumverate of Burton, Depp and Elfman, and...and...well, it was never really at risk of not being genius, was it?
Don’t Get Up For A Mince Pie...during Victor and Emily’s beautifully rotten little piano duet, wherein their frankly illegal romance starts to look as though it might in fact have a (somewhat maggoty) future after all.
Next: Gilda
Comments
sleepwalker
Dec 8th 2009, 12:52
Wasnt Sparrow's rum burning tantrum in the first one!
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sleepwalker
Dec 8th 2009, 12:54
Wasnt Sparrows rum burning tantrum in the first one!
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MarkPowell
Dec 8th 2009, 16:55
Quite right sleepwalker...good spot, dunno quite how I managed that one! Amended to what it was supposed to have been originally now, ta.
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hughjass1970
Dec 8th 2009, 22:04
Dances With Wolves - catch the James Cameron remake in theatres from 17th Dec!
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Ali1748
Dec 9th 2009, 1:32
Midnight Run is such a vastly underrated film.
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lpatterson
Dec 9th 2009, 10:51
This is a brilliant feature! Now I don't have to spend two hours with the frickin Radio Times.
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Hadouken76
Dec 9th 2009, 12:59
dick tracys 'The Blank' was basically a rip off of Rorschach
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KerrAvon
Dec 9th 2009, 15:15
No Scrooged, shocking.
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KerrAvon
Dec 9th 2009, 15:16
Or Bad Santa Christmas is ruined.
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badblokebob
Dec 11th 2009, 15:18
And there I was thinking Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was an adaptation of a book by this guy called Roald Dahl.
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