Good Intentions

Rating: 5/10 (17 July 2005)

I'd like to state first that I liked this movie. It just had a few minor issues. For some reason, Tim Burton has a sick fetish with Johnny Depp. He has now been cast in a leading role in one fourth of Tim Burtons films. Normally I wouldn't have a problem with that. I loved him in "Ed Wood" and thought he was perfect in "Edward Scissorhands". But he went too far this time. Johnny Depp is not what I would call a "comic" actor. His little one-liners began to annoy me about half-way through the film. I don't know if they were trying to capture the magic that Gene Wilder had in the original, but I think they failed miserably. I really have no other complaints besides that. I just wish Tim Burton would stop thinking that it is a requirement to have Johnny Depp in his movies for them to be good.