Corpse Bride
In his first stop-motion, full length direction, Corpse Bride, Burton casts Johnny Depp as Victor and Helena Bonham Carter as Emily in the lead roles. Variety gave the film a positive review:
This macabre musical about a young bridegroom who mistakenly weds a girl from beyond the grave is an endearingly schizoid Frankenstein of a movie, by turns relentlessly high-spirited and darkly poignant.