Corpse Bride is a Tim Burton feature done in claymation.  It is the tale of a worried young groom who mistakenly marries a corpse in the forest.

This movie was done in claymation which is absolutely grueling and taxing work for the animator, but really gives the movie a cool look and feel.  I liked how the story was somewhat original at least a different take on an old story.  I am not one for musicals though and I didn’t really get anything from it.  Outside of the claymation, it was a little hollow.  I do like how Tim Burton animations are darker and not so bubbly like most animated features.  It just wasn’t my kind of movie, but I still enjoyed it for the most part.

“Die, die we all pass away.  But don’t wear a frown ’cause it’s really okay.  And you might try and hide.  And you might try and pray.  But we all end up the remains of the day.”

6/10

Waking Life is done by Richard Linklater.  It follows a young man in a lucid dream state bouncing from conversation to conversation.

This movie was very abstract.  This was the first time I had seen a rotoscoped film.  I enjoyed the originality in the animation as well as plot, but I did not really care for the content.  I may have been missing elements of the film, but the conversations seemed mundane to me.  Some of them were interesting, yet I never felt engrossed or completely held by any of them.  This may be a case where the movie is going way over my head, but I wasn’t that impressed with the dialogue.

“They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn’t you say the same thing about life?”

4/10

9 is a film by Shane Acker produced by Tim Burton.  It is the spawn of a 2005 short of the same name.

This movie was really childish.  Tim Burton associated his name with it and it had a PG-13 rating, so I expected a little more of an adult theme.  I don’t love Tim Burton’s animations, but I definitely don’t usually mind watching them.  Other than being awkwardly dark as to make me squint, I don’t understand the rating.  Visually the film had a painted sort of look to it that was different.  It was better looking than most animated movies.  The story, however, was very weak and not something I enjoyed.  Overall, I couldn’t help but feel like this film was disappointing and just more of the same lame cliches packaged in a Saturday morning cartoon thing.

“You owe me a new cape”

3/10

Average rating: 3/10 (2 ratings)

Shrek the Third (2007)

Saw the first two, but I don’t remember enjoying them as much as I did this one.  While the story centers around Shrek, it’s the rest of the cast that makes the show.

07/10–It only took 3 years for me to finely see it—what a surprise.