It took a small army to animate the puppets in Tim Burton’s “Corpse Bride,” a love story with a dark twist that opens in Los Angeles on Friday.

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride ... rather than the other way around. Somehow, working with these elegant carved-in-silicone puppets turns Burton’s sense of drama to wood.

“Corpse Bride” will win your heart, if it doesn’t rip it out of your chest first. Paradoxically bringing life to all this scenery is a bunch of stop-motion puppets.

Relentlessly inventive, telling a slightly creepy, but basically sweet story filled with some great characters, imaginative sequences and great music, Tim Burton’s “Corpse Bride” is a true ...

Tim Burton s Corpse Bride: Animated feature. With the voices of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Emily Watson. Directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton. (PG. 75 minutes. At Bay Area theaters ...

"Tim Burton's Corpse Bride" is like that miniature Dickens Village the neighbors drag out at Christmastime. Only this time it's been overrun by the whimsical skeletal figures from a Mexican Day of ...

Co-Director Mike Johnson on 'Tim Burton's Corpse Bride' and how stop-motion has done more than survive amid the rise of computer animation By Spencer Parsons , Fri., Sept. 23, 2005 Tweet ...

For those who do like that sort of thing, you’ll probably feel you’re in the midst of genius when you see Tim Burton’s “Corpse Bride.”I have to admit, I cringed more than laughed every time the corpse ...

Every bride-to-be needs someone to turn to for sage counsel as the big day nears. But only in “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride” could that traditional movie role be played by a maggot that lives ...

If Victor Van Dort, the hero of Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, doesn’t impress with his boyishly handsome face, ... a towering 12 inches.By puppet animation standards, ...

“Corpse Bride,” 4.5 out of 5 bagels. If the Academy Awards show were held today, the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film would go to “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride.” ...