I went for the visuals.

Rating: 8/10 (9 December 1999)

About halfway through the movie, I realized that I needed to go to the bathroom and, so, simply waited for the appropriate "lull" in the action and visuals, hurried about my business, and returned to my seat to miss little, other than some of the deeper essences of the plot. This bothered neither my family or me since we went to see Tim Burtons' visuals, sets, photography, and Directing.
In the end we were quite pleased, finding the film as atmospheric as expected and caring little for a plot that was somehow expected to justify other artistic indulgences.