Welcome back to the unique world of Tim Burton

Rating: 9/10 (4 April 2001)

Reviewing a film by Tim Burton is almost like describing the most fascinating incident in your life, you never know where to start. To begin with, what hasn't been said about this complete "auteur" that I could probably say now, almost nothing. Since the beginning we can see that the places portrayed by Burton are not the real cities, but how he sees these places. New York is colorless and boring, and yet crude. But the town of Sleepy Hollow is something else, is mysterious, is dark, mistyful, and yet with certain cosyness; Sleepy Hollow is a place far different from the rest of the world that makes us feel like we are in another very weird dimension that reminds us his previous films.
Again Burton uses the elements that have made his previous work famous, such as horror, the fight of one man against the whole world just because he is different, the animated cartoon-like effects, the wind mill that in a way represents his mind put on screen as a physical part of the environment through which the characters confront the nemesis, and a certain touch of elegant humour that could be even cataloged as dark. It is just impossible to see this films without thinking "this is totally a Tim Burton film", and again he wouldn't be complete without a score by Danny Elfman whose best scores have been the ones he's made for Burton's films. All in all, I don't see a reason not to like this one, and as for me, it has already become one of those films I will never get tired of watching it.