Started good, but ended horribly.

Rating: Null/10 (6 December 1999)

I was willing to give this one a good review during the first two thirds or so. It looked great, like all Burton's movies do. I liked Depp's character. The comedy seemed well delivered.
Then it got silly. The gore was way, way too heavy. Do exhumed bodies really spurt that much? The comedy fell apart at the end. The lines were delivered from somewhere out in left field, and suddenly our evil villain is a comedian.
And then, oy with that ending! Think of it as sort of "Last Action Hero" meets "Reanimator". I'm sorry, I like special effects just like the rest of us, but when you keep a headless person walking around on screen too long I'm going to go into giggle fits and start thinking about Reanimator and other really bad scifi. Why the Last Action Hero comparison? Stop and remember all the cliches about movie endings that movie attempted to poke fun at. They're all in this movie. All of them. I'm serious.
I have no idea which parts of this movie were supposed to be funny. I didn't think the ending was supposed to be, anyway. But I suppose if I look at it in a very Army of Darkness sort of way, it's quite amusing.