Corpse bride - 2005

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp together, which is always a good thing. It's stop motion animation, like "Nightmare before Christmas".
Like every animated movie it has songs, but I'm not very fond of them. They're not bad, no, they're good, good music, they're nice songs, but they stopped the story.. sometimes a song is a good thing, sometimes it isn't, and usually it's more appreciated by children than adults. In a movie like Frozen they are okay, they serve the purpose of involving you in the sentiments of the characters, but here I could have lived without them. The The skeletons singing? No, thank you, boring.
It starts introducing us with Mr and Mrs Van Dort: he's a rich merchant and they plan to have their only son married to the daughter of Lord and Lady Everglot to go up in society. The two have never met, but as soon as that happens a connection sparks, they like each other, but at the wedding rehearsal shy Victor is so nervous he can't pronounce his vows correctly so the priest gets angry and sends him away, to come back when he'll be ready to say them properly. The big voice of Christopher Lee rumbles at him "learn your vows!".
Victor is now in love with Victoria and wants to marry her, so he walks practicing his speech in the woods, and while doing so he places the ring on what he thinks to be a simple tree root, but as he does so the ground shakes and the corpse of a bride comes out thinking herself married to him.
Well, Victor did say: "oh Victoria she must think I'm such a fool, this day couldn't get any worse" and everyone knows you should never say this!
Emily, with the voice of always great Helena Bonham-Carter, has a sad past: she had fallen in love with a young man, but her family disapproved, so the two lovers planned to elope together, but instead when they were alone he killed her and stole her precious family jewels. Now she believes that Victor married her by putting that ring on her finger, but she will find out that he's in love with another woman.
Since Victor is not coming back, the Everglot change their plans and marry Victoria to Lord Barkis, thinking him full of money, but Lord Barkis is very disappointed when after the marriage he learns that Victoria has no money at all, and that the only reason she married him is to avoid her family to be ruined. Knowing of her marriage, Victor is so sad he promises Emily to drink a poison and marry her properly, and stay with her forever, both dead. However, while he's about to do just that, Emily sees Victoria watching them and stops him, realizing this is all wrong, and places Victor's hand on Victoria's. At this point, evil Lord Barkis comes in with the intent of ruining it for them, claiming Victoria as his wife, and challenging Victor. Emily gets between the two to save Victor, and recognizes in Lord Barkis the man that killed her. Barkin thinks he has won now, ruining the happiness of the two young people, and wonders how much pain can feel a corpse, and drinks to their  unhappiness, not knowing that in that drink there is only poison. As he drinks, he dies, so Victoria is free again. Victor feels he made a promise to Emily but she tells him that he set her free, and she'll do the same for him. Emily goes up in butterflies, and Victor is free to live happily with his beloved Victoria.
Notable lines: in the land of the dead, someone says: "why go upstairs when people are dying to get here?!?"
The sadness when Victor exclaims "I would never marry you" to poor Emily.
Emily saying "my dreams were stolen from me" , reason why she doesn't want now to destroy Victor and Victoria's love dream.
I like the stop motion, I love Johnny Depp's voice , here so shy and akward and sweet. I love Helena Bonham Carter.
This is what I liked most of it.
Other voices were Emily Watson/Victoria, Joanna Lumley/Mrs Everglot, Albert Finney/Mr Everglot, Richard E. Grant/Lord Barkis, and Deep Roy and Danny Elfman.
Ita: La sposa cadavere