Disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (11 February 2006)

Being a Tim Burton fan perhaps my expectations were set a bit high, but to my mind this film fell short. The storyline was excessively simple, the composition was not nearly of the caliber we know Danny Elfman is capable of, and the characters were frankly boring and under-developed. This film (as demonstrated by the music in the trailers seen on television) was banking completely on the success of it's predecessor "The Nightmare Before Christmas", instead of on it's own merit. All the elements were there to make a truly great film, but somehow it got mangled. In short, this film was decent, but to anyone out there expecting another Tim Burton classic, I'm afraid you'll have a while to wait.