Overview
Genre :
AnimationRelease Date :
September 23, 2005MPAA Rating :
PGDirector :
Tim Burton, Michael JohnsonStarring :
Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Albert Finney, Richard Grant, Joanna Lumley, Christopher Lee, Jane Horrocks, Enn Reitel
REVIEWS RATE:
Critics 
Readers Be the 1st!
“..totally genial and perfectly charming: a family movie in the best sense of the term...”
by William Arnold [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
“..The Oscar for this year's Best Animated Feature Film belongs right here..”
by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone]
“..rings in the fall movie season with a lot of love, ingenuity and animated effects..”
by John Urbancich [Sun Newspapers of Cleveland]
“..one of the year's most satisfying stories of love and sacrifice..”
by Robert Denerstein [Denver Rocky Mountain News]
“..one achievement that won't be soon forgotten..”
by Mel Valentin [Movie-Vault]
“..gives way to a poignancy you don't expect from American animated features...”
by Gene Seymour [Newsday]
“..delightfully animated and paced..”
by Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
“..dazzling and hilarious..”
by Kevin Courrier [Boxoffice Magazine]
“..As animated films go, this is easily the best..”
by James Berardinelli [ReelViews]
“..another wonderfully macabre fable that feels like a timeless classic..”
by Rich Cline [Shadows on the Wall]
“..an achievement in the small corner of the animation world it resides in..”
by Brian Orndorf [EFilmCritic]
“..a wild, vibrant and somewhat romantically morbid trip through the afterlife...”
by Kit Bowen [Hollywood]
“..a visual triumph, and also a work of surprising warmth..”
by Pete Vonder Haar [Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice]
“..a near perfect fairy tale..”
by Joshua Starnes [Comingsoon]
“..a movie that is sure to be enjoyed by one and by all..”
by Brendan Cullin [Empire Movies]
“..a ghoulishly witty crackpot puppet show..”
by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly]
“..a genuine whimsy that seldom finds its way into today's movies...”
by Kirk Honeycutt [The Hollywood Reporter]
“..a deliriously devilish flight of fancy unlike anything else this year...”
by Sara M. Fetters [MovieFreak]
Reviewed by Paul Myers [Georgia Straight]
