'Corpse Bride' lacks the substance of Burton's earlier movies

Victor Van Dort (voiced by Johnny Depp), the son of nouveau-riche fish merchants, is engaged to wed Victoria (Emily Watson), the daughter of the blueblood-but-bankrupt Everglot clan, in an arrangement intended to raise the class and title of the former’s family up to the level of the latter’s. In spite of his parents’ ambitions, however, as well as a genuine attraction to his betrothed, Victor’s apprehension in the face of lifelong commitment proves so overwhelming that the wedding seems an immi