Sarcastic, inteligent and moving view on Ed Wood

Rating: 8/10 (17 November 2002)

MY RATING- 8.0
To begin, it's a well-aclaimed mov here in Portugal and we have some Ed
Wood
moviegoers (thank god there isn't a lot!)
It's a damn well made mov, created when Burton had finished his personal
Batman Returns, this one on the life of Edward Wood Junior, the worst
director ever.
Well I never watched a mov from Ed, and to be honnest, I don't intend to
spend my money doing so. This mov spare us the torture of it, and Burton
uses again his strange sense of humour to tell the story of a guy who was
convinced that his movs were excellent. In a way, the message is given by
Vincent D'Onofrio in a delicious cameo as Orson Welles- we must go through
with things, even if they're bad as Ed's movs.
As Ed, Johny Depp goes quite well, as well as Sarah Jessica Parker as the
girlfriend who leaves him, Bill Murray (ultrafunny!), Patricia Arquette
(very sweet), Lisa Marie Juliet Landau and Jeffrey Jones as the
omnipresent
Criswell. But the real surprise is Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi, the
horror
star from 30's Dracula. Under his heavy makeup, we really forget we're
seeing an actor, he truly looks like Bela! What a performance! Impossible
not to sympathise with him, he even won the Oscar (which is quite rare in
a
Tim Burton mov).
Overall, this is a quite entertaining doc mov, and a interesting change on
the director's career, that will please fans and nonfans.