Cheesy Hollow (Junk Commentary from Tim Burton)

Rating: 5/10 (7 January 2005)

This movie is over-the-top cheese, and Depp plays an amusing sort of cowardly constable. Following Demi Moore's "Scarlet Letter" school of text adaptation, this has zero to do with the Washington Irving story, but there you go. The movie's value is mostly visual.
My previous low-water mark for commentary on a DVD is either Jodie Foster's obsession with talking only about what is real and what is fake in every shot of Contact, or of course the chronically stupid "funny" commentary on Blood Simple, but this is right down there with them. It took me exactly six and half minutes to run out of patience with Tim Burtons inane, self-evident remarks. Between long stretches of silence he exhausts one adjective (amazing... Michael Gough is amazing, the cast is amazing, big Spanish horses are amazing...). Hey Tim, feel free to make some notes and watch it once before you you record your comments. But if he could do that, he'd be able to realize that nine out of ten of his movies have crappy scripts; Tim is quite inarticulate.
I doubt anyone can top the immortal 4-word summary of this by LA Weekly's Manohla Dargis "Sleepy and hollow indeed." Too funny.