Eternal optimist in an angora sweater

Rating: 8/10 (11 March 2000)

This is a very well done film about a very strange man and his even stranger entourage.Ed Wood made up for in optimism what he lacked in talent.To say he was a hack film screenwriter/director is being kind.He had no talent and didn't know it. But he never gave up.
Burton's film follows Wood from his first film to his cinematic "masterpiece " Plan 9 From Outer Space".Martin Landau gives a deserved Oscar winning turn as the drug addicted washed up Bela Lugosi.No doubt great many liberties were taken with Lugosi such as his extreme bitterness toward Boris Karloff.Also the scene where Lugosi is wrestling with the octopus in the middle of the night is pure dramatic license.(Watch Bride Of The Monster and you can tell that isn't Bela.
The cast is wonderful and this is a film to catch by all means.