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After watching “The Notorious Bettie Page” I was really more in the mood for something built for raw entertainment value. Going to “Transporter 2″ would be akin to mixing Radiohead followed by The Darkness “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” (I’m talking to you, Dave Bookman). My brain just wouldn’t be able to handle that. Instead, we went to an early release of “Corpse Bride“. The comparison kinda works because of the use of retro-filming styles.

Corpse Bride simplified the traditional process by using digital SLR still cameras for the frames rather than film or digital motion cameras. It’s pretty cool to think that the digital revolution actually makes stop-motion easier. Any comparison between CG animation and traditinoal stop-motion doesn’t usually figure in how much easier stop-motion is now.

The plot was predictable through to the end from about twenty minutes in, but that really didn’t take away from the raw enjoyment of this movie. It never really slows down, and makes the 76 minutes seem like almost 90 minutes of entertainment. Seventy-six minutes. Ick. This could kill it when it opens next weekend. You could watch it three times including bathroom breaks in the same time it takes for someone watching the extended Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.

Back to my point, definitely a fun movie - not quite brainless, since there’s a lot of clever humour. Singing characters in a movie is still a weird experience - since it became acceptable for artists to “sell-out” and have their music used in a film, there really haven’t been a lot of original music scores over the last ten years. The Oscar each year for best song is usually a selection of the few films that have tunes from a currently relavent music artist.

Not much else to say except that Simone and I really enjoyed it. There are still a few movies I want to see before the month is up, but I’m glad this was one of the ones I did go to.