Burton's second best movie....

Rating: Null/10 (26 April 1999)

...after Batman. Usually Tim goes over the top with imaginative visuals and neglects storyline (Batman Returns, Mars Attacks!, Edward Scissorhands), but when he's focussed on bringing something to the screen, like with Batman, it works brilliantly. And this is a wonderful movie, unusually heartwarming from Burton, with great performances and great visuals. All Burton's trademarks are there - isolated central character with a bunch of strange people who follow him, weird iconography, Danny Elfman score (very Mars Attacks!-ish), great performances from his cast and returning actors - Johnny Depp played Edward Scissorhands and is in Burton's upcoming The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, and Sarah Jessica Parker would appear in Mars Attacks!
Johnny Depp as Ed Wood constantly makes silly expressions with his mouth and eyebrows - in exactly the same as Jack Nicholson did as The Joker. It's almost as if Depp is doing an impression of him. Burton obviously likes that sort of thing.
A wonderful movie by one of the greatest ever filmmakers about awful movies by one of the worst ever filmmakers.