Burton Should Stick to Fantasy

Rating: 5/10 (12 February 2004)

In this amalgam of fantasy and family drama, Tim Burton might have wanted the audience to experience two different genre films shuffled in one. The innovative storytelling, the dad modifying his experiences with his sense of wonder, is both a means and excuses to make such a unique world possible. However, with the artificially shallow father-son relationship, the family drama part, which is obviously not Burton's realm, falls apart. It makes the entire film remarkably unimpressive, while the fantasy sequences are truly fantastic. Burton should stick to fantasy, what he is good at.