Family-Friendly Necrophilia

Could anybody else but Hollywood's Gorgon of Goulishness, Tim Burton, plausibly pitch a movie such as "Corpse Bride?" "Ok, get this, ok, this is great," he says to the studio exec through his ridiculous sunglasses, "it's about a guy who accidentally marries a dead woman. He puts a wedding ring on a skeleton's finger and her ghost is totally is all, like, whoa, ok, married now." (A premise which, despite its themes of ghosts and whatnot, is kind of legalistic, when you think about it... like a man who mistakenly files IRS form IZ-382 instead of IZ-328 and he's haunted by the ghost of former president Rutherford B Hayes.) It comes out this week and replicates the long-loved stop-motion animation that moviegoers will remember from his "Nightmare Before Christmas" — meaning early buzz for it is strong. From everyone except this guy, anyway. The hated msm is lavishing the flick with praise, and a nation eager for a respite from its hurricane-drenched woes seems like it could use a good stop-motion motion picture. This blogger certainly could.

Posted by Philip Ewing at September 23, 2005 11:51 AM

Category: Moving Pictures