God Forbid ‘The Bride!’ Get a Little Motion

Early on in The Bride!, a bulbous, lumbering figure (Christian Bale) who is calling himself Dr. Frankenstein but is pretty obviously the late physician’s creation pays a visit to a different mad scientist: one Dr. Cornelia Euphronius (Annette Bening), a Chicago-based experimenter with her own ideas about creating life out of death. Euphronius, who writes under a male pseudonym in order to be taken seriously, has a word for her mandate as an amateur reanimator: “invigoration.”