Tim Burton is dead! Long live the next great director!

Rating: 1/10 (28 September 2006)

We endured Big Fish, we even managed to swallow Planet of the Apes, however, a man who was once a king amongst directors (back in the good old days of Batman, Beetlejuice, Scissorhands) has sadly passed away and resorted to making pointless tripe that is little more than a step up from the Teletubbies!!!! Though I have seriously disliked Burton's latest 'sell out' movies, I have to say that even THIS was too awful for him! I would liken it more to The Cat in the Hat or The Grinch. The character's are completely 1 dimensional wierdos (even Charlie and his family who are supposed to be the warm, familiar, human side of the story) and none of the actor's appear to have no chemistry whatsoever (even Charlie and Depp, who I thought worked well in Finding Neverland together).
Traditionally, you would expect the Burton version to be much darker than the original, however, in this case, the original is the darker of the 2, whereas Burton's version is more like an episode of 'My Little Pony!' I would recommend this film maybeye to a 14year old girl who owns a Jack Skeleton backpack, listens to 'My Chemical Romance' and thinks that Donnie Darko is " Like, the cleverest cult film ever!!!" But to anyone with a brain, I hope you will see it for the tedious, pointless and stupid pile of rubbish it is and say "Forget Corpse Bride Burton! You've just had your last chance!!!!!"