Excessively sentimental

Rating: 3/10 (24 July 2006)

First, I've got to say Tim Burton movies are always visually great to look at, and this is no exception. Unfortunately, the visuals are about the only good thing going for this movie. It feels like it tries too hard to be sentimental and forgets to actually make a good story that's interesting. The stories where just plain boring and didn't seem to have any point other than just to flaunt his visual style and to appeal to the most sentimental of viewers. And this movie wears on you; the longer it goes on, the more it becomes unbearable to watch, which makes the 2 hour runtime seem like an eternity.
I guess people that like their movies mawkish would like this one (which by looking at the IMDb rating it appears that there are a lot of people like that), but I'm not one of them. I expected more from Burton.