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Corpse Bride

I have to confess that I picked this up purely on the strength of the luscious Johnny Depp voicing one of the main characters (well, that and the fact that it was a wet Saturday afternoon with not much else for me and littl'un to do) and came away entertained and enthralled.

The film opens on the eve of young nouveau riche Victor van Dort's wedding to the aristocratic-but-impoverished Victoria Everglot - a union which their families respectively hope will escalate their place in society and restore the family fortune.

The wedding rehearsal goes horribly wrong and Victor flees the Everglot mansion in humiliation. Musing on his short-comings in the nearby forest, he inadvertently places the wedding ring on the "hand" of a dead branch - but the branch turns out to belong to an unquiet corpse who is more than happy to accept Victor's proposal!

Victor is dragged "downstairs" to the land of the dead, but meanwhile, someone else is paying court to his abandoned fianceé Victoria...

Director Tim Burton's vision makes the world of the dead seem a much more lively, colourful, entertaining world than the grey and dreary "upstairs" world of the living. The dead speak, they dance, they laugh, sing and cry - whereas the living seem to spend most of their time worrying that they're breaking the rules.

With a cast of all-star voices - Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter (Burton's wife), Albert Finney, Christopher Lee and Joanna Lumley to name just a handful - plus some very interesting "the making of" special features on the DVD, this is an excellent choice for all ages.