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Josh Hurst (Reveal) raves, "Burton's always seemed keen on making weird, twisted fairytales for grown-ups—see Scissorhands and Big Fish—but he's never made one as delightful as this. Corpse Bride is the Tim Burton film with the biggest heart—which is ironic, since it's essentially about a guy who marries a dead woman."

At World's film blog, MovieIncite, Steven Tilson is not so pleased. "The film's view of death and the afterlife clearly has nothing whatsoever to do with Christianity; in fact, it doesn't seem to have much to do with anything beyond its own cosmology. … And while much of the film's major action takes place in a church, and its priest … is a major character, there are no crosses or Christian iconography that would make the association concrete. This allows the filmmakers to take swipes at organized religion without singling out any particular faith for ridicule—though it's fairly clear, from the movie's Victorian setting, that the priest and the church aren't anything other than Christian."

Do mainstream critics love Burton's accomplishment? Of corpse they do.

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