If Johnny Depp wasn't in it, I wouldn't have sat through it.

Rating: 8/10 (14 May 2012)

I am giving it an 8 simply because Johnny Depp is amazing and carried a crappy movie into a somewhat entertaining movie. This is sadly one of those movies that all of the good parts are in the previews. The girl they cast as his lover looks young enough to be Depp's granddaughter, not to mention that she can't act, and the woman who plays the witch is annoying as hell, not even funny and her teeth just stick out through the whole movie. I found myself checking facebook during the movie and only looking up when I heard Depp's voice which was very entertaining. Helena Bonham Carter was good for what she had to work with and the two children in the movie were great actors. I guess I was just expecting much more, and I love the Tim Burton movies, and everyone keeps comparing this to all his other movies, but I don't see it at all. To me, I couldn't even tell it was a Tim Burton movie other than the fact it had Johnny Depp with Helena Bonham Carter.