A Must See

Rating: 9/10 (10 December 1998)

This movie was so good. I was impressed with the look. After all was said and done, Criswell looked much as he did in the movie. Tor Johnson was played well(or real badly as was needed). Overall Tim Burton builds a world that really existed, but cuddo's could not be held back from Johnny Depp and Richard Dryfus. Richard filled out the story with his rendition of Bela LaGusse. Bela was real, and unfortunately tragic.
What the movie really pulls off is to make the Ed Wood story plausible. One watches Glen or Glenda, Plan 9, or Orgy of the Dead and say 'movies this bad can't be made by accident.' But Depp makes the movie, with his enthusiasm, ignoring the obvious and simply his ability to sell an object that stinks. This movie is worth your time because it is funny, sad, victorious and scandalous all at the same time. What a hoot.