So far, so bad

Rating: Null/10 (5 June 2008)

Maybe I was spoiled by "Corpse Bride" but I am having great difficulty getting though the first twenty minutes of this film.
If I remember correctly, Danny Elfmann is the composer. The weakest part of the film. All of his music sounds the same.
If it sounded the same in the way that one could recognise a signature like Mozart or like, maybe it could be passable, but when Elfmann makes his play, it has the feeling of sameness as when one slips on a dog's calling card on the sidewalk.
I have no idea why anyone would use his infantile music in their films, especially such directors as Burton, whom I otherwise very much admire.
Maybe he is simply cheap and reliablenot bad qualities in themselvesbut aren't there any musical composers in Hollywood?