Tim Burton can't make movies anymore

Rating: 4/10 (22 September 2005)

Yes, I know he didn't direct it but this is a god awful piece of tripe that spits in the face of "The Nightmare Before Christmas." It commits the cardinal sin of movies such as this... it's boring. Lame songs too. This would have been much better as a live action movie. I can see Depp really pulling this off with another trademark performance. The sad fact is, Burton hasn't made a great movie since "Sleepy Hollow". "Big Fish" was overdone and over long and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" was the same. And what the hell is wrong with Jon August? How can the writer of the brilliant "Go" be stuck writing studio garbage? It's to bad he appears to have gotten caught up in the paycheck instead of continuing to write his own stuff. Crap.