For coming out at the same time, and sharing the same offbeat subject – loving the nearly and dearly departed – two new movies hold little in common.”Corpse Bride,” opened in the big-city theaters two ...

“Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride” doesn’t really need the first two words in its title. After all, who else’s corpse bride might this be confused with? “Garry Marshall’s Corpse Bride”? “Chris Columbus’ ”?

Take something creepy and gruesome like maggots, disembodied heads, severed eye balls and corpses, transform them into puppets, and they’re slightly less disturbing for those of us who don’t like that ...