Bizarre film touches all the right buttons...almost

Rating: 8/10 (22 November 1999)

This moody work is quintessential Tim Burton. Perhaps no other director of this time is able to push the deep emotional buttons that pile one on top of the other, scene to scene.
Physically repulsive android type creature of Vincent Price ( a casting gem, by all accounts) alternately finds himself the object of suspicion, wonder, affection, revulsion and mass hysteria in pastel suburban setting.
Danny Elman's score and Burton's typical dark somber set designs are a feast for the senses and so, have a box of Kleenex handy.
The film is marred only by the unnecessarily brutal finish, but then is redeemed by that elegant snow dance scene coupled with Elfman's haunting music.