Perfect use of Burton's natural gifts.

Rating: 9/10 (21 June 2000)

Where have I seen the windmill before? Frankenstein or Frankenweenie(Burton's first film). His dark dark sets and lighting are such a good fit for this plot, also Batman I and a couple of others...Frankenweenie was in B/W and this one could have been also.
Other than the creativily severed heads this could be a PG 13 film; little mayhem, excellent writing, finest actors, fine score. Coherence and taste from start to finish. An enormously satisfying movie and a 9/10 easily. Both this and 6th Sense just wiped out American Beauty as best picture and I think the Academy lost a great deal of political credibility.