I’d missed this film at the cinema, you know how fast they flow through, so I was rather pleased to pick this up cheaply. Young Victor Van Dort (Depp) is to be wed in an arranged marriage to Victoria Everglot (Watson).

As if meeting your future wife the day before at the rehearsal isn’t bad enough, Victor can’t learn his vows under the stern gaze of both parents and an even sterner Pastor Galswells (superbly stentorian Christopher Lee). Practising alone in the spooky woods he finally gets his vows right and places the ring on what looks like a convenient twig. He’s just accidentally married the corpse bride (Bonham Carter). So begins a dark tale of finding true love and resolving a past murder.

It’s witty, surreal and everything you’d expect from a Tim Burton film. Done with stop motion there is a fantastic look to the film, the living (upstairs) all monotone and grey, the dead (downstairs) wild, colourful and jazzy. Victor finds life with the dead far more lively than he expected, but can he find his way back to Victoria and do what’s right for his unexpected bride? Needless to say it all resolves at the end beautifully.

“Sounds creepy!” “Yeah, lets go!”