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December 23, 2009
Movie Trailer: Alice in Wonderland
I can't imagine watching Helen Bonham Carter looking like that for a whole movie.

I'll be upfront with my bias: I do not like Tim Burton movies. I think his visuals are obtuse and a tad too precious. I can never get lost in his movies because he insists on reminding me he's directing. There is nothing in this trailer to show he's found a way to restrict his eager designing.

My bias aside, Burton fans appear to have plenty to look forward to. Have fun with it.




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Screenwriters: Linda Woolverton (The Lion King)
Director: Tim Burton (Planet of the Apes)
Actors: Johnny Depp (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), Helena Bonham Carter (Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street), Anne Hatchaway (Brokeback Mountain), Crisin Glover (Back to the Future), Christopher Lee (Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers), Michael Sheen (Underworld), Alan Rickman (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), Stephen Fry (V for Vendetta) and Mia Wasikowska (Defiance)



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July 20, 2008
Movie Trailer: Batman
"Wait until they get a load of me."

It was cool when it was released.

That was a long time ago.

It's not cool anymore.

It's kind of embarrassing now.



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Screenwriter: Sam Hamm (Monkeybone), and Warren Skaaren (Beetle Juice)
Director: Tim Burton (Big Fish)
Actors: Michael Keaton (White Noise), Jack Nicholson (As Good As It Gets), Kim Basinger (L.A. Confidential), and Jack Palance (City Slickers)

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June 23, 2008
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Should I see it?
No.



Sure it has style and some people may like the music, but like the original source material, this is just an ugly piece of work. Slathered in sanguine scenes of low lives getting their arteries let out, this musical tells the dark tale of a man bent on revenge. Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp) is torn from his loved ones and imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. He survives jail and returns to exact revenge on those who did him wrong. He joins forces with the sneering Mrs Lovett (Helen Bonham Carter), who runs the worst bakery in London. Todd opens a barber shop above her and begins to slit the throats of his victims who's corpses are sent below to be cooked into her meat pies. This is hideous stuff.

I know since this is a big budget rendition of a Broadway hit, I'm supposed to bend over backward in my praise. The fact is that, other than a humorous appearance by Sacha Baron Cohen, the film has very little personality and even less purpose. The violence is over-the-top and the moral decrepitude of the characters is barely studied. This is just a premise worked out on screen with no meaningful result.

Tim Burton's Mall-Rat Goth style fits well with the subject but his inability to produce three-dimensional characters really makes this film insufferable. Like in his other movies, the people on screen are scribbles of characters who linger far beyond their initial charm and eventually become props to Burton's design work.


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