A wisecrack unnoticed by my Parisian audience

Rating: 10/10 (12 February 2000)

I enjoyed this last Burton very much (for me, it's his best). Although the action is scaring all along, some breaks are provided for the soft-hearted, such as: "Do you think he's dead?" "The problem, is that he was already dead!" But my biggest laugh was at the end, when Depp tells Ricci: "This is New York, and you'll get accustomed to it very quickly: the Bronx is up and the Battery's down" (an hommage to Betty Comden-Adolph Green-Leonard Bernstein's ON THE TOWN). I even expected a final title : AND PEOPLE WEREN'T YET TRAVELING UNDERGROUND.Of course,I was the only to push a big laugh in the Parisian afternoon audience... henry caraso