Editing Corpse Bride (section)

==Reception==
===Box office===
''Corpse Bride'' grossed $53.4 million in North America, and $64.7 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $118.1 million.<ref name="BoxOfficeMojo"/>

In North America, the film opened at number two in its first weekend, with $19.1 million behind ''[[Flightplan]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2005&wknd=38&p=.htm |title=Weekend Box Office Results for September 23-25, 2005 |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=March 10, 2014 |archive-date=February 24, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224211955/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2005&wknd=38&p=.htm |url-status=live}}</ref> In its second weekend, the film dropped to number three, grossing an additional $10 million.<ref name="boxofficemojo1">{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=corpsebride.htm |title=Tim Burton's Corpse Bride - Weekend Box Office Results |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=March 10, 2014 |archive-date=December 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213203804/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=corpsebride.htm |url-status=live}}</ref> In its third weekend, the film dropped to number six, grossing $6.5 million.<ref name="boxofficemojo1"/> In its fourth weekend, the film dropped to number nine, grossing $3.6 million.<ref name="boxofficemojo1"/>

The biggest market in other territories being France, United Kingdom, and Japan, where the film grossed $8.9 million, $8.6 million and $7.1 million respectively.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=corpsebride.htm | title=Corpse Bride |website=Box Office Mojo | access-date=February 3, 2015 | archive-date=February 3, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203142742/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=corpsebride.htm | url-status=live}}</ref>

===Critical response===
On the [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds an approval rating of {{RT data|score}} based on {{RT data|count}} reviews, with an average rating of {{RT data|average}}. The website's critics consensus reads, "As can be expected from a Tim Burton movie, ''Corpse Bride'' is whimsically [[macabre]], visually imaginative, and emotionally bittersweet."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/corpse_bride|title=Tim Burton's Corpse Bride|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date={{RT data|access date}}|archive-date=June 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605233514/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/corpse_bride|url-status=live}}{{RT data|edit}}</ref> [[Metacritic]], which assigns a rating out of 100 based on top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 83 based on 35 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/corpse-bride |title=Corpse Bride Reviews |website=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=March 10, 2014 |archive-date=May 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502193606/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/corpse-bride |url-status=live}}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://www.cinemascore.com/ |access-date=2022-02-28 |website=[[CinemaScore]] |archive-date=January 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180102130540/https://www.cinemascore.com/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Justin Chang]] of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' gave the film a positive review, saying, "This macabre musical about a young bridegroom who mistakenly weds a girl from beyond the grave is an endearingly [[Schizoid personality disorder|schizoid]] [[Frankenstein's monster|Frankenstein]] of a movie, by turns relentlessly high-spirited and darkly poignant."<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Justin Chang |url=https://variety.com/2005/film/reviews/tim-burton-s-corpse-bride-2-1200523455/ |title=Tim Burton's Corpse Bride |magazine=Variety |date=September 7, 2005 |access-date=March 10, 2014 |archive-date=March 10, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310054131/http://variety.com/2005/film/reviews/tim-burton-s-corpse-bride-2-1200523455/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Kirk Honeycutt of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' gave the film a positive review, calling it "A wondrous flight of fancy, a stop-motion-animated treat brimming with imaginative characters, evocative sets, sly humor, inspired songs and a genuine whimsy that seldom finds its way into today's movies."<ref name="rottentomatoes1">{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/corpse_bride/reviews/?type=top_critics |title=Tim Burton's Corpse Bride - Movie Reviews |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=March 10, 2014 |archive-date=March 21, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150321144240/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/corpse_bride/reviews/?type=top_critics |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Michael Atkinson (writer)|Michael Atkinson]] of ''[[The Village Voice]]'' gave the film a positive review, saying, "The variety of its cadaverous style is never less than inspired; never has the human skull's natural grin been redeployed so exhaustively for yuks."<ref>{{cite news |author=Michael Atkinson |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-09-06/film/death-becomes-her/ |title=Death Becomes Her |newspaper=The Village Voice |date=September 6, 2005 |access-date=March 10, 2014 |archive-date=October 31, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031044832/http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-09-06/film/death-becomes-her/}}</ref> [[Owen Gleiberman]] of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' gave the film a B, saying, "As an achievement in macabre visual wizardry, Tim Burton's ''Corpse Bride'' has to be reckoned some sort of marvel."<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/article/2005/09/14/tim-burtons-corpse-bride-2/ |title=Tim Burton's Corpse Bride Review |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=September 14, 2005 |access-date=March 10, 2014 |archive-date=March 10, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310053306/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1104903,00.html}}</ref>

[[Manohla Dargis]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' gave the film four out of five stars, saying, "Cinema's reinvigorated fixation with the living dead suggests that we are in the grip of an impossible longing, or perhaps it's just another movie cycle running its course. Whatever the case, there is something heartening about Mr. Burton's love for bones and rot here, if only because it suggests, despite some recent evidence, that he is not yet ready to abandon his own dark kingdom."<ref>{{cite news |author=Manohla Dargis |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/16/movies/16brid.html |title=Tim Burton's Corpse Bride |work=The New York Times |date=September 7, 2005 |access-date=March 10, 2014 |archive-date=September 17, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050917150153/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/16/movies/16brid.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Moira MacDonald of ''[[The Seattle Times]]'' gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying, "What makes ''Corpse Bride'' sing, ultimately, is the breadth of imagination that it demonstrates; creating a cluttered, textured and mysteriously beautiful world that we're loathe to leave at the end."<ref>{{cite news |last=Macdonald |first=Moira |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20050923/corpse23/here-comes-tim-burtons-corpse-bride |title=Entertainment & the Arts &#124; Here comes "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride" |newspaper=[[The Seattle Times]] |date=September 23, 2005 |access-date=March 10, 2014 |archive-date=December 16, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216154132/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?slug=corpse23&date=20050923 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Liam Lacey of ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' gave the film three out of four stars, saying, "Ghoulishness and innocence walk hand-in-hand in Tim Burton's ''Corpse Bride'', a movie that digs into [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]]'s past to resurrect the antique art of stop-motion animation and create a fabulous bauble of a movie."<ref name="rottentomatoes1"/> Jack Mathews of the ''[[New York Daily News]]'' gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying, "Stop-motion animation may be the hardest and most tedious job in Hollywood, but the makers of Tim Burton's ''Corpse Bride'' deserve a couple of years in [[Tahiti]] celebrating their effort."<ref name="rottentomatoes1"/>

Lisa Rose of the ''[[Newark Star-Ledger]]'' gave the film three out of five stars, saying, "''Corpse Bride'' offers unclassifiable enchantment."<ref name="rottentomatoes1"/> [[James Berardinelli]] of ''[[ReelViews]]'' gave the film three out of four stars, saying, "As animated films go, this is easily the best of a weak year."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://preview.reelviews.net/movies/c/corpse_bride.html |title=Reelviews Movie Reviews |publisher=Reelviews.net |date=September 16, 2005 |access-date=March 10, 2014 |archive-date=September 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927141151/http://preview.reelviews.net/movies/c/corpse_bride.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Peter Howell of the ''[[Toronto Star]]'' gave the film four out of four stars, saying, "If his ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'' from a dozen years back was a treat for the eyes and mind, Tim Burton's ''Corpse Bride'' goes double or nothing by being a delight for the ears and also the heart."<ref name="rottentomatoes1"/> Joe Williams of the ''[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]]'' gave the film a B+, saying, "Beneath the bone pile of allusions, ''Corpse Bride'' is a darkly enchanting fable in its own right."<ref name="rottentomatoes1"/>

Andrew Sarris of ''[[The New York Observer]]'' gave the film a negative review, saying, "''Corpse Bride'' turns out to be a ponderous mixture of puppetry and animation that is far too technologically complex and laborious for this hopelessly [[Luddite]] reviewer."<ref name="rottentomatoes1"/> [[Roger Ebert]] gave the film three out of four stars, calling it "A sweet and visually lovely tale of love lost."<ref>{{cite web |last=Ebert |first=Roger |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/tim-burtons-corpse-bride-2005 |title=Tim Burton's Corpse Bride Movie Review (2005) |website=[[RogerEbert.com]] |date=September 22, 2005 |access-date=March 10, 2014 |archive-date=November 10, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110075448/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/tim-burtons-corpse-bride-2005 |url-status=live}}</ref> Roger Moore of the ''[[Orlando Sentinel]]'' gave the film four out of five stars, saying, "The sweetness, the visual flourishes and inspired pieces of casting carry the ''Corpse Bride'', if not all the way down the primrose path, then at least across the threshold."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2005/09/23/not-a-rotting-corpse-but-certainly-no-body-beautiful/ |title=Not a rotting corpse, but certainly no body beautiful |last=Moore |first=Roger |date=September 23, 2005 |work=[[Orlando Sentinel]] |access-date=July 7, 2018 |archive-date=March 10, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310063335/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2005-09-23/entertainment/CORPSE_1_corpse-bride-tim-burton-victor |url-status=live}}</ref> Robert K. Elder of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying, "If ''Nightmare Before Christmas'' was a [[jazzy pop]] number, ''Corpse Bride'' is a [[waltz]]—an elegant, deadly funny bit of macabre matrimony."<ref>{{cite web|last=Elder |first=Robert K. |url=http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/movies/mmx-050923-movies-review-corpse,0,2912595.story |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050923065650/http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/movies/mmx-050923-movies-review-corpse%2C0%2C2912595.story |archive-date=September 23, 2005 |title=Corpse Bride |access-date=March 10, 2014}}</ref>

[[Kenneth Turan]] of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' gave the film two out of five stars, saying, "The film does have a fairy-tale aspect, but, like many of its characters, it is more dead and buried than fully alive."<ref name="rottentomatoes1"/> [[Claudia Puig]] of ''[[USA Today]]'' gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying, "''Corpse Bride'' is an unexpectedly touching celebration of love told in a quirky and inventive style."<ref>{{cite news |last=Puig |first=Claudia |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2005-09-15-corpse-bride_x.htm |title='Corpse': Death is beautiful |newspaper=USA Today |date=September 15, 2005 |access-date=March 10, 2014 |archive-date=March 10, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310063139/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2005-09-15-corpse-bride_x.htm |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Peter Travers]] of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' gave the film three and a half stars out of five, saying, "In the guise of a family film, Burton evokes a darkly erotic obsession that recalls [[Edgar Allan Poe]] and [[Alfred Hitchcock|Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Vertigo (film)|Vertigo]]''. It would be a test for any filmmaker, and Burton aces it."<ref name="rottentomatoes1"/>

Steven Rea of ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'' gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying, "Tim Burton's ''Corpse Bride'' is easily the best stop-motion animated [[Necrophilia|necrophiliac]] musical romantic comedy of all time. It is also just simply, wonderful: a morbid, merry tale of true love that dazzles the eyes and delights the soul."<ref name="rottentomatoes1"/> Michael Booth of ''[[The Denver Post]]'' gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying, "''Corpse Bride'' will win your heart, if it doesn't rip it out of your chest first."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.denverpost.com/movies/ci_3049747 |title=Say "I do" to "Corpse Bride"; the honeymoon's a killer |newspaper=The Denver Post |date=September 23, 2005 |access-date=March 10, 2014 |archive-date=March 10, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310052138/http://www.denverpost.com/movies/ci_3049747 |url-status=live}}</ref> Terry Lawson of the ''[[Detroit Free Press]]'' gave the film three out of four stars, saying, "There's a happy [[Halloween]] in store even for children who aren't allowed to trick or treat, and it's courtesy of Tim Burton's animated ''Corpse Bride''."<ref name="rottentomatoes1"/>

Bruce Westbrook of ''[[The Houston Chronicle]]'' gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying, "Amazingly fluid and drop-dead gorgeous, Tim Burton's ''Corpse Bride'' is the best-looking, stop-motion animation film ever."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/moviestory.mpl/ae/movies/reviews/3365912|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050929082539/http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/moviestory.mpl/ae/movies/reviews/3365912|archive-date=September 29, 2005 |title=Say 'I do' to Corpse Bride |newspaper=[[The Houston Chronicle]] |access-date=March 10, 2014}}</ref> Rene Rodriguez of the ''[[Miami Herald]]'' gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying, "''Corpse Bride'' suffers from the same problem that has plagued Burton's recent live-action films: for all its formidable razzle-dazzle, it doesn't engage the heart."<ref name="rottentomatoes1"/> Colin Covert of the ''[[Star Tribune]]'' gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying, "This vibrantly imaginative mix of horror and humor puts the f-u-n in funeral."<ref name="rottentomatoes1"/>

===Accolades===
''Corpse Bride'' was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Animated Feature#List of winners and nominees|78th Academy Award for Best Animated Feature]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/oscar/chart/?yr=2005&view=allcategories&p=.htm |title=2005 Academy Awards Nominations and Winners by Category |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=March 11, 2014 |archive-date=March 24, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140324120750/http://boxofficemojo.com/oscar/chart/?yr=2005&view=allcategories&p=.htm |url-status=live}}</ref>

The film won the [[National Board of Review]] for Best Animated Feature in 2005 and the [[Annie Awards]] Ub Iwerks Award for Technical Achievement in 2006, where it was also nominated for Best Animated Feature, Best Character Design, and Best Direction.

In 2008, the [[American Film Institute]] nominated this film for its [[AFI's 10 Top 10|Top 10 Animation Films list]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/10top10.pdf?docID=381&AddInterest=1781 |title=AFI's 10 Top 10 Nominees |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |access-date=August 19, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716071937/http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/10top10.pdf?docID=381&AddInterest=1781 |archive-date=July 16, 2011}}</ref>