Corpse Bride (2005)

Most people think so. 83% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 84%.

In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living. Wikipedia ↗

Corpse Bride is a 2005 British-American stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy film directed by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson. Set in a Victorian-era European village, the film follows Victor Van Dort, voiced by Johnny Depp, a timid young man arranged to marry Victoria Everglot, voiced by Emily Watson, who accidentally finds himself married to Emily, voiced by Helena Bonham Carter — a murdered young woman whose corpse rises from the grave when Victor places his wedding ring on what he believes is a tree root but is actually her skeletal finger. Victor must navigate between the drab, gray world of the living and the vibrant, colorful Land of the Dead to resolve his predicament and discover the truth behind Emily's murder.

Tim Burton's signature gothic romantic sensibility found its purest expression in Corpse Bride, with the film's central visual conceit — the living world is gray and lifeless while the Land of the Dead is colorful and joyous — serving as both a visual joke and a philosophical statement. Danny Elfman composed the score and contributed songs, including a jazzy piano number performed by skeleton musicians. Corpse Bride earned $117 million worldwide on a $40 million budget and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature.