Reviews

Not since 1989's Batman has there been such a brilliant, fun, and hyperactive comic-book adaptation. Evil Dead and Darkman helmer Sam Raimi has gone back to his roots to deliver an over-the-top and energetic extravaganza that hits all the right levels of campiness and seriousness. There have been many comic-book movies in the past few years, but all of them have had a fatal flaw to keep it from true greatness. Batman Returns (a sequel I feel is better than the original) can really only be enjoyed by Tim Burton fans. Blade, although it was extremely entertaining, was FAR too over-the-top and cheesy to be anything more than a popcorn and eye-candy movie. X-Men, still one of the most ambitious comic-book movies to be brought to screen, had the flaw of taking itself TOO seriously, therefore the campy sequences felt strange and unmatched with the rest of the film. Batman + Robin, well, let's just not go there. Spider-Man gets it all right. Tobey Maguire's brilliant performance of Peter Parker, as well as the death of Uncle Ben, perfectly parallel the hyper kinetic and exxagerated style of filming (a trait from Raimi's earlier films) and the cheese wiz performance by Willem Dafoe, who seems to be having even MORE fun with his performance than in Shadow of the Vampire.

Aside from the comic-book justice, Raimi also will please fans of the cult classic Evil Dead and Darkman films. Taking a step away from his more drama-driven career turn, he returns to his unique style of filmmaking, where almost EVERY shot of film is moving fiercely or spinning around violently. The fact that the CGI is a bit cartoony fits his wacky vision very nicely. After 13 years, the long-awaited Spider-Man matches the group of classic comic-films along with Burton's Batman and Richard Donner's Superman and shows us the way comic-book movies SHOULD be.

Kevin Smith has an excellent resume. All of his movies have proven to be impressive. Clerks has the razor-sharp wit and brilliant writing. Mallrats has the nostalgic 80's comedy sense, plus Jason Lee in one of the funniest roles I've ever seen. Dogma had the thought-provoking storyline and the hilarious comedy (which is guaranteed in all Kevin Smith movies by now). Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was outrageous and hilarious, plus it wrapped up the "New Jersey Chronicles" brilliantly. But none of his movies could compare to Chasing Amy, Smith's third movie in his View Askeniverse, a world where all of his films connect in one way or another.

Chasing Amy had the witty writing from Clerks, Jason Lee from Mallrats (in an even better role than Brodie in 'Rats), the thought-provoking elements from Dogma, and the outrageous edge from Jay and Silent Bob (making us never look at a pair of Chinese fingercuffs the same way again).

Definitely the most serious and personal of his films, Chasing Amy is a delight for anyone that likes original storytelling and smart comedy. Ben Affleck shows that he has more range than what he showed in that Forces of Nature, Pearl Harbor, Bounce crap, Joey Lauren Adams is great as Alyssa Jones, and Lee is absolutely exceptional as Banky, the homophobic, hot-tempered inker, or tracer, of the comic book he and Holden (Affleck) created.

If for anything else, see the movie for the Star Wars discussion at the Comic-Con, a scene which is one of my all-time favorite comedy scenes I've ever seen. 10/10.

Die hard fans of the Tolkien books have torn apart this movie. All the comments are the same: DISGRACE TO TOLKIEN!!!, or NEVER HOW IT SHOULD'VE BEEN MADE!!! Please, stop!!!!! I've read the books many times, and sure, there are differences, but a movie that completely copies the reading material will utterly bore people to death. This was the best movie of 2001 and one of my all-time favorite adventure movies. And I don't care what anyone says, Peter Jackson captures the essence of the book better than anyone else could've ever dreamed. Nit-picky fans: YOU try to make a movie with more passion, excitement, adventure, and feeling! You know, I respect fans that don't think it fit with their vision of Middle-Earth, but come on!!! IT'S SO WRONG TO COMPARE A MOVIE TO THE BOOK IT'S BASED ON!!! Judge the movie on it's own!!! Oh well, people hating the movie based on book comparisons are at least better than when people complain: "That ending was so abrupt!" That annoys me to no end more than anything else.

Final Note: Anyone that would rather enjoy a movie for what it is on its own than nit-pick it to death for its differences to a book will love this brilliant movie. 10/10

Meet the Parents is the funniest movie of the year, no questions asked! Robert DeNiro and Ben Stiller are absolutely HILARIOUS! I knew I would love this movie from the very beginning.

This movie works on so many levels. Not only is the movie absolutely hilarious from start to finish, it also has a lot of sad and touching elements. Ben Stiller is great as the unfortunately named Greg Focker (who does resemble his character in There's Something About Mary a little too much) and Robert DeNiro is fantastic as Jack Byrnes, a would-be father-in-law from Hell. DeNiro is much better in this movie than his terrible role in the atrocious Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle simply because he is more relaxed and has much more fun with this character. Stiller and DeNiro make such a good team in this movie, also. Both of them make the perfect reactions to all the absolutely humiliating mishaps Greg does in the movie. All the horrible things Greg does, from losing DeNiro's dear cat to breaking a girl's nose to setting the house on fire, none of them would have been as funny as they were if DeNiro didn't do such a good job reacting to the accidents when he would find out about them. And some of the scenes (Greg saying grace at the dinner table and the fabulous interrogation scenes) are absolutely IMPOSSIBLE not to scream out laughing.

And although the movie does have a little too much in common with There's Something About Mary, it still has all new laughs that are very fresh and are absolutely a riot!

I have never been a fan of X-Men in my life. The characters always seemed dumb in the cartoon series on Fox Kids, and I've never read the comics of it. I wasn't very psyched that that they were making an X-Men movie, but then I found out that Bryan Singer was directing it. That seemed very interesting, because Usual Suspects and Apt Pupil (both great films) had little to no action in them. Then I also found out that Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan were starring in it, along with a bunch of young actors with no really major credit (besides Anna Paquin with The Piano). That got me more interested, and once I saw the preview I knew I had to go see this movie. I'm glad I did. X-Men has so much to offer in an hour and a half, and as I was sitting there watching Toad walk on walls, Professor X use Cerebro, Magneto floating through the air, and the climactic battle scene of Wolverine Vs. Sabretooth on the Statue of Liberty, I was thinking, THIS is what you go to the movies for.

And not only does X-Men have fantastic special effects, great stunts, and X-ceptional battle scenes, it also has a good story and good characters. I know some of them deserved more screen time, but they still were such great actors who really portrayed the fact that the X-Men weren't all happy best friends. I loved the tension between Logan (Wolverine) and Cyclops. You can tell that they didn't like each other from the start. And the story was not built around special effects and fight scenes (unlike a very overrated movie starring Keanu Reeves), but it had substance. I could tell Bryan Singer really wanted to prove that a movie based on comic books could be more than a comic-book movie. And of course, this movie had the COOLEST villains in it. Mystique was a purely evil and sinister spy and had the coolest morphing ability (her power was probably the coolest out of all the mutants), Toad had a wicked sense of humor and was great to see in battle using his tongue, slime, and leaping ability to fantastic use, Sabretooth was a badass mutant with strong senses of smell and had sweet fight scenes with Logan (especially the fight on top of Ellis Island), and Magneto was played SO well by Ian McKellan you could just FEEL his presence throughout the movie. He also had such an awesome power. I'd love to be able to control all metal objects.

All in all, X-Men was one of funnest movies I've ever been to in a long time. It will never bore you and will keep you captivated with it's phenomenal special effects, awesome fight scenes, great humor, exciting story, and characters you can grow to love. Now I can't wait until the sequel. 10/10

So far this was the best movie of 2000! Everything about was great. I want to keep this review short, so this is what's good about this movie: EVERYTHING!!!! I can't believe that some people thought it was garbage. Come on!!!!!!!! It had beautiful visuals, it had a great cast, it had hilarious dialogue, it had a sci-fi story (who cares if it was formulaic, aren't all sci-fi's nowadays like that?), it had mature elements (it really isn't a movie JUST for kids), and it was the most exciting animated movie I've ever seen. It was one of the only movies where I forgot that it WAS a movie and just sat back and enjoyed the ride. What more can you ask for a science fiction? Did you guys think it would have deep morals or oscar-winning performances. It was a space opera sci-fi serial with the spirit of the original Star Wars films and the extremely advanced technology we have now. Thank God there is finally an animated movie with breathtaking excitement and groundbreaking animation that wasn't an anime movie (Sorry guys, but I HATE anime)! Don Bluth is back and he's finally returned to his days of talent.

What really had me going about Final Destination was not the terrifying and gory deaths, or the the non-stop entertainment plot, or even the most original and frightening beginning since Scream. What really got me to enjoy this movie was the completely new idea of the "slasher movie without the slasher" idea, the magnificently shot scenes which kept you so freaked out about what was going to happen, the freaky and eerie score, and the amazingly fresh plot. After three years of lame and predictable slasher movies (with the exception of the well done Scream movies), Final Destination gives us a totally new look on death. Has there ever been any way of death in movies that aren't murders, accidents, or suicides? Final Destination gives us something new: the form of death itself gets cheated by five teenagers who get removed from a plane which explodes in mid-air. They were supposed to die with the rest of the passangers. Now Death is mad, and it decides to kill off the teenagers one-by-one to balance things out, using accidents and framed suicides to hide the fact that death is on a rampage of revenge. As each character dies throughout the story, the main character Alex, who can somehow see the deaths before they happen, looks desperately and tries to find Death's pattern of killing, because if he finds that, they can cheat death again.

This movie has some problems, like the scene with the mortician, but because of the fresh story, the superb death scenes, the fine acting, and the very eerie feeling you get while watching the movie, you hardly even notice them. The movie also has great comedy in it, something only the Scream movies have perfected.

So all in all, Final Destination is a thrill machine that definitely kept me going the whole time. I very much hope that movies like these are made more often now that slashers are finally being forgotten.

This is my second review of Gattaca since my first one was extremely short. Gattaca is probably the most underrated movie of all time. It's also very possibly my favorite, along with Dead Poets Society and The Shashank Redemption. The movie has absolutely no flaws whatsoever. Everything about the movie was so amazingly original. I was also blown away by the acting of it. I have tried to see every movie with Jude Law in it after seeing his exceptional performance in Gattaca. He is also such an unknown actor, but he's so talented (It's fantastic he's nominated for an Oscar for Talented Mr. Ripley). Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, and Alan Arkin also give such rich and excellent performances, too.

The film is about Vincent Freeman (Ethan Hawke), who is born what now is the natural way, but in the future is uncommon. The natural way in the future is simply cloning a baby and letting the parents decide everything (gender, hair color, skin, personality) about the baby. Vincent has one simple goal: to go into space, but because he's not "valid" and has a 99% chance of heart failure at the age of 30, Vincent can only find work as jobs like janitors. But one day, he finally goes to extreme measures to surpass the standards for a place called Gattaca where people train to become astronauts. He illegally changes his identity and borrows the identity of a superior clone by the name of Jerome Morrow (Jude Law), who is incredibly strong, but gets into an accident and paralyzes his legs. Jerome gives Vincent samples of his body to help him pass for his fake identity (blood samples, urine pouches, hair samples). Vincent is getting away with his illegal crime until a mission director is brutally murdered and a detective (Alan Arkin) finds Vincent's eyelash in a corridor, and when they find out that it is the eyelash of an invalid, the detective gets closer and closer at finding Vincent's true identity.

Gattaca is a brilliant and stunning drama that I am completely outraged that it is such an unknown and underrated movie. It has such a fantastic script, such powerful performances, and an amazing music score that it definitely deserves recognition as a film that proves that the bounderies of science fiction are limitless. Oh well, at least most of the critics enjoyed it.

Through the first two Scream movies we've been exposed to many laughs, many screams, many thrills, and (sadly) a couple problems. I must admit, when I found out that Kevin Williamson would not be writing the third and final movie in the surprisingly good Scream series. I actually had very low expectations for Scream 3, mostly because I did not like Arlington Road, the movie Ehren Kruger (writer of Scream 3) wrote before this one. When I saw the movie, I was very pleasantly surprised. Sure, it had some bad acting, the beginning was sort of cheesy, and there were tons of pointless characters. But still, the movie shined very bright in both the comedy and horror elements of the script. The movie was both the funniest Scream movie as well as the scariest. I was laughing almost to tears in parts of the movie, and in all the other parts I was jumping in my seat. The movie had so many more scares in it than the first two. Scream 2 was not scary at all, and Scream had some scares, but it still doesn't hold a margin to the many, many scares in the third one. The story had some plot holes, but so did Scream 2 and even the first one. It also had some very clever and extremely fun and funny scenes. Randy's special appearance was a classic element in the movie. The characters in the movie were pretty normal and average. That's one thing Ehren Kruger didn't have, Kevin Williamson's lush and excellent characters. But still, it didn't matter one bit, because this Scream, as the others, has one goal: to entertain and thrill the audience. The killer(s) of the movie was unpredictable and unexpected, but not to the point of ridicule, as the second one did. That one element of the movie was one of two things. It was cheesy, but it also worked very well. I was pleasantly surprised. So all in all, Scream 3 is arguably the best, and worst, of the Scream series. It was definitely the scariest, and funniest, of the trilogy, but it also had the weakest plotline and characters. I personally think it was worse than the first, but better than the second. Either way, though, it was defintely a worthwhile and enjoyable ending to a great series.

When I first saw Scream 2 I thought that it was way better than the first one. Then when I saw it a couple more times, I noticed the problems of the movie. Although the script is as fresh with its characters and dialogue, some scenes in the movie are very predictable. It wasn't scary at all. The main killer at the end was stupid, I admit that. I loved the first killer that you found out about, as well as his/her motive. But then the movie introduced the partner, who turned out to be the main killer. It was really stupid. They cast the wrong person for it, and it just didn't work in many respects.

Now, with the problems out of the way, I can tell you about the good things about the movie. I absolutely loved the whole idea of Stab in this movie. It created something totally different in the new movie world. For those of you who have not seen the movie, Stab is a movie-within a-movie based on the events in the first Scream. Tori Spelling plays Sidney, David Schwimmer plays Dewey, etc... It was very clever. It was also just as funny as the first one, and I was roaring with laughter during the scene when Dewey sees Gale and has a little talk about her book. Jamie Kennedy was in the spotlight for most of the film, and he did just as good a performance as Randy as he did in the first one. The whole cast of new people fit the Scream team very well, especially Jerry O'Connell, Sid's new boyfriend away at college.

So, all in all, the movie was very good despite its weak ending and its sometimes predictable storyline. I used to think it was the best Scream, but the more I think about it, the more it's the worst one. It still is very good, though, and is a worthwhile and worthy follow-up to the greatest horror movie of the 1990's.

Scream has to be one of the greatest horror movies ever made. People that have not seen the film or its sequels would probably think of it as a plotless horror movie with bad acting, just like its inspirations (I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legend). That steriotypical remark is so far from the truth it's amazing. Scream is a funfilled, extremely clever, and exceptionally funny movie that it is right up there with Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Psycho as my favorite horror movie. This movie has everything a scary movie can offer. The beginning is the greatest beginning to any movie I have ever seen. The Ghostface costume and the terrifying voice is bone-chilling. It is pretty scary (And I'm a guy that doesn't get scared by movies too often) and it has many edge-of-your-seat thrills. The script is so original and fresh. It has such thoughtful and great characters. And who the killer(s) turn out to be is totally awesome. I really loved this movie. It made me become a teen slasher fan. This movie has inspired me to see the Halloween movies, the Nightmare on Elm Street movies, and even the ghastly and horrible Friday the 13th movies. The story is totally unpredictable and is so funny in places that I was on the floor laughing (especially the scenes with Randy). If you are a fan of teen movies and horror movies, you have to rent this movie. It is complete and all out fun!

After seeing this movie, I finally realized that every sequel to an excellent sci/fi or horror movie would leave you depressed that the original movie had to have had such a terrible sequel (although some exceptions like Aliens and Terminator 2). The original movie, The Fly, is one of my all time favorite sci/fi movies. Everything about it was great. So I decided to watch the sequel, even though it looked pretty bad. I wasn't expecting much, but I was still shocked at how terrible this movie was. It was a disgrace that it had anything to do with the original. The script was so clique! The acting was terrible! The special effects were ATROCIOUS (I can't believe they were done by the same guy who did the FX for The Fly)! The only thing good about this movie was the surprise ending. I was quite pleased that it ended differently than the first one. Please, by all means, don't see this movie! It took everything that was cool about the first one and messed it up in a lame, predictable, flat out terrible movie!

The Talented Mr.Ripley is simply a very good movie. It had everything a good movie has to offer. The story is extremely interesting. The way Anthony Minghella built up the great characters through his screenplay was excellent. The way the movie expresses how boring and tragic Tom Ripley's life is is amazing. The main story is about Mr. Ripley, who is mistaken for another person and paid $1000 (a lot of money back in the '50's) by a rich man to go to Italy and persuade the man's son, Dickie Greenleaf, to come back to the US. Ripley goes, only to fall in love with everything about Dickie's life, including Dickie himself. He stays there for a long time having the time of his life with Dickie, until another person gets into the picture, Freddie Miles, and Dickie loses his attention to Tom. Dickie gets bored with Tom, who gets more depressed the longer Freddie Miles stays with them. Then, on a lonely boating trip, Tom gets overpowered by rage and kills Dickie. He then, still in love with Dickie's lifestyle, takes Dickie's identity. Another marvelous thing about the movie is the amazing acting. Matt Damon is chilling as Tom Ripley. He is the bad guy for the last half of the movie (the brat Dickie is the antagonist in the first half), yet you still root for him to escape. Jude Law is fantastic as Dickie Greenleaf. Jude Law is an outstanding actor, and I'm so mad that he is so underrated. He really stands out in this movie, as he did the masterpiece movie "Gattaca". Gweneth Paltrow was great in it. Cate Blanchet was very good. All the characters in the movie were well done. The directing is also superb. I didn't see The English Patient by Anthony Minghella, but this was great. The directing was some of the best I've seen this year. The opening credits were awesome, too. This was a very intelligent and intruiging movie, despite its length. I enjoyed every minute of it. I definitely recommend this movie to fans of drama and suspense.

When I saw the previews for this movie, I thought it looked good, yet not at all as amazing as the modern day masterpiece The Shashank Redemption. It definitely didn't look as powerful. Man, I was completely wrong! This movie is not only the greatest film of 1999, but in my top ten favorite movies! It is the only movie where every single actor in it was outstanding! Tom Hanks once again does an exceptional role in this movie, but I was also very glad that he was not the only one in the movie that had character. Everyone had an outstanding character in this masterpiece. The story was breathtaking, and the fabulous directing by Frank Darabont added to the great screenplay. Some scenes in the movie were EXTREMELY powerful and also VERY disturbing. One scene in the movie would always stand out in my mind as nerve-wrenching. I can predict the oscars now: Tom Hanks winning best actor, Michael Duncan winning best supporting actor, Frank Darabont winning best director, Frank Darabont winning best screenplay, and The Green Mile winning best picture. I certainly hope that's the way they'll go, since they all deserve to win. I am also very mad at people complaining about the length of the film. Okay, maybe some scenes could have been taken out, but still, every scene in the movie was great! The only flaw I can find in the movie is the slapped together and far fetched ending. The movie should have ended after the final death. It shouldn't have gone back to the old Paul Edgecomb, who explains a cheesy ending. But still, the ending doesn't ruin the movie whatsoever. It still is one of my all-time favorite movies, and it will stay on my list for years to come.

Being a really big Tim Burton fan, I can't say it's easy to pick which one is the best. Edward Scissorhands had the emotion, Beetlejuice had the comedy, Batman had the quirkiness, Sleepy Hollow had the visual scenery, and so on, and so on. But I still think that one movie stands out when I think of Tim Burton's movie. That movie is Ed Wood. The movie is a total masterpiece! The screenplay was hysterical. The acting was superb. The music was great. The directing was amazing. Every single thing that could be cool in a Tim Burton movie is in this movie! The two actors that stand out for me in this movie is, of course, Johnny Depp, who gave an incredible performance as the worst director of all time, and Martin Landau, who was outstanding as the late horror icon Bela Lugosi.

The mostly true story is about Edward D. Wood, Jr., who made such atrocities as Plan 9 From Outer Space, Bride of the Monster, and Glen or Glenda. He was awarded, after his death, an award for the worst director of all time. The movie is about his life and his journey to become a great movie director. Through his years he befriends Bela Lugosi, Crizwell, and many other '50's icons. Ed also has a problem, a problem his girlfriend (sarah jessica parker) has never known about. He's a transvestite! He likes to wear woman's clothes.

The movie, although a comedy, had some dark Tim Burton moments aswell as a lot of drama in it. It fit so well together that the movie is overwhelming. I'm so glad that a large amount of critics also thought the same about this movie. Johnny Depp and Martin Landau are great, nominated Martin Landau for an award, and everyone else in the movie is great to, such as Bill Murray, Jeffrey Jones, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Patricia Arquette. Tim Burton really made a movie that could top all his other works. 2000 on a 10 point scale.

Beetlejuice is a very unique movie, but I'm not surprised. Tim Burton, master of the macabre, directed this odd movie. I have to say that this movie isn't only dark, it's hilarious. The movie is truly funny, and the blend between horror and humor was superb. It's about a wife and husband, played by Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin, who die in a car accident. The two still live on Earth, but as ghosts. Suddenly, a family moves into their house and changes it all around into a cold and weird house. The two ghosts are now miserable, so they decide to try to scare them out. It doesn't work. They go into the spirit world to ask for some help. Their advice lady gives them some excellent ways to scare them out. It still doesn't work. But something else happens, too. The family's weird daughter, played by Winona Ryder, finds out about them. She becomes they're freind. It still doesn't stop the ghosts desire to get them out of the house, so they do something no one thought of. They called a man from the spirit world, one who specializes in these sort of things. His name is Beetlegeuse, pronounced Beetlejuice, and the scares he has in his bag of tricks are much, much scarier than the ones the two have tried already. But they start to figure out that Beetlejuice isn't doing this for them, but for himself. He loves to scare, and he'll do anything to do it. They find out that he threatens the life of the family's daughter, and themselves. They must stop him.

Although it sounds sort of like a serious horror story, the movie is a total comedy. Still, it has a lot of Tim Burton style quirkiness in it. Michael Keaten is wonderful as Beetlejuice, and once again, Danny Elfman does a great score. If you like dark comedies, and you love Tim Burton, go rent this movie this second.

This short story is a flat out classic. It's funny and unique. And who better to direct than Tim Burton. The story is about the Frankensteins, a normal suburban family in modern times. Victor, the young son, is crestfallen when his dog Sparky dies.

The movie is very funny and original, and I'm glad that Tim Burton decided to do this movie in black and white, as he did 10 years later with his masterpiece Ed Wood. Frankenweenie is just a fun and original idea that is glad to be a short and mostly unknown movie. A great film.

Okay, let me start out with this. There are two boxes you could fit in with Mars Attacks. You either loved it and thought it was hilarious, or you hated it and were disappointed in Tim Burton. I am in a box, the one where you like the movie. Sure, it got a little too over-the-top, even for a movie trying to be over-the-top, and it didn't have the usual Tim Burton feeling to it that we have come to love. Still, the movie was hilarious! It made fun of every bad sci-fi movie of the '50's, and it was funny how they got such well known actors to play extremely pointless characters, such as Danny DeVito and Michael J. Fox. The movie had hysterical music done by the great Danny Elfman, and the acting was amusing because of everyone purposefully overacting. I really thought that the movie couldn't have been done better. I can't believe that some people thought that the movie was supposed to be a serious movie. I read one review where they were comparing this movie to Independance Day. Come on! Please don't tell me that they were actually serious when they wrote that. This movie was funny, a little misconcepted at times yeah, but still another good Tim Burton film.

Edward Scissorhands id one of Tim Burton's greatest films, and all of his are great films. The movie is a very emotional and artistic movie. The movie is in a class by itself. I couldn't put this movie in any basic genre, though most Tim Burton films can't be, either. Edward Scissorhands has a very artistic and fantasy-like story, one we knew couldn't happen in real life, but it also has a lot of touches of the real world. For example, the setting of the movie is completely far fetched, yet as the story progresses, Edward finds out about many real life problems. We all do, and we all find out about the monsters in us all. Edward, the artificial and "crippled" man in the story is the only one that does not have that characteristic in him, while the rest of the cast, normal humans, are the real monsters in the film. Johnny Depp gives a stupendous and absolutely exceptional performance as Edward, a creation made by his master, the late Vincent Price. Edward's creator and master dies before he can complete him, so Edward is left with an error-scissors for hands. He lives up in a mansion until a local Avon lady brings him to her neighborhood, where he falls in love with Kim Boggs, played by Winona Ryder. What follows are extremely sad scenes of the neighborhood slowly progressing to thinking Edward is some monster, especially after a terrible decision Edward makes. Anthony Michael Hall plays the villain-type roll as Kim's boyfriend. He is the main reason why Edward is typecast as a monster in the neighborhood. The ending is very emotional, I can't say that it happy emotion either. The movie succeeds in everything it tries to accomplish. This movie proved to me that there wasn't anything Tim Burton couldn't accomplish. The movie was a flat out masterpiece. 10 out of 10!

This movie is one of the wackiest and weird movies I've ever seen. It doesn't surprise me either. The movie starred wacko Paul Reubens and and was directed by the exceptionally unique Tim Burton. The movie is also extremely funny. Being one of Tim Burton's earlier films, I didn't expect it to be as marvelous as his other films, but I was sure wrong. The story in Pee Wee's Big Adventure is so far out that you can't help but laugh and think, "Am I really seeing what I think I'm seeing?". From scenes like the Large Marge scene and Pee Wee's dream about clown doctors were my personal favorites because of the obvious Tim Burton style to them. Danny Elfman also makes a perfect score to the movie (when has he failed me, I don't know), which adds to the craziness. Although I think this movie is cult fun, people who don't like the character of Pee Wee Herman would not like the movie, because it's just like his TV show, which in my point of view, is also classic humor. I'm very glad to say that Tim Burton has made another classic film, and one which is very different from his others. If you like weird and crazy humor, go rent this movie tonight!

Sleepy Hollow is by far a visual masterpiece. Tim Burton surpasses absolutely anyone with his dark and quirky visions. Just looking at the town of Sleepy Hollow in the previews, I knew this movie would be a great treat. Johnny Depp's performance in the movie was exceptional! Ichabod Crane's character in the new version of the classic story is by far the greatest character I've seen on a movie screen in a long time. The Headless Horseman is awesome in the movie. Ray Park was amazing with the incredible stunts he did. The fight scene on the bridge, Brom Bones and Ichabod vs. The Horseman, reminded me of the fabulous fight scene at the end of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Christopher Walken was creepy as the Horseman with his head on. But most of all, the movie was outrageously exciting. The movie kept my adrenaline going the whole time. And one thing I haven't heard anyone say before, was that the story was great. I loved all the twists in the movie. Sure, it was confusing in some parts, but it all got solved at the end.

Well, now I need to come to the flaws in the movie. The music by Danny Elfman, although fit for the movie, was not as memorable as all the other scores he did with Tim Burton, like Batman, Edward Scissorhands, or Beetlejuice. And the end was a little silly, when you found out who the (unfortunately) real villain of the movie was. The romance between Ichabod and Katrina was pointless, even though I wasn't as annoyed about it as some other reviewers. Some of the acting in the movie was stiff, like in The Phantom Menace.

But even though it had its flaws, it still was an awesome movie. It was visually beautiful, it had a great script, it was extremely exciting and gory, and Johnny Depp was so great to watch in the movie because of his amazing acting ability. Yeah, I was a little overhyped about the movie, but no movie could get up to the quality I thought Sleepy Hollow would have. Oh well, it still was a very good film, and Tim Burton has definitely redeemed himself after the misconcepted Mars Attacks.

This movie had some of the worst computer animation ever. Sure, I didn't expect the movie to have as great animation as A Bug's Life, but I still expected this TV movie to have decent effects. Yet, once again, TV has disappointed me. The voices for the movie were totally miscast. The only convincing voice of the animated film was that of the narrator, voiced by Clancy Brown. The way Ichabod and Brom Bones looked was awful, especially Brom Bones. They were such atrocious designs. But the worst design of all was that of the Hessian/Headless Horseman when he had a head. Come on! Give us a facial feature a little more frightening than some bald guy with an extremely fat head. Ugh! The cast was absolutely wasted. Everyone had the worst dialogue. The worst part of the film was the "shock" ending. It was incredibly cheesy. The only part of the film that was half-decent was the beginning scene, where the Headless Horseman decapitated a frightened villager in the woods. The music was horrible and the directing was bad. The film destroyed a great story. This atrocious movie just makes me want to see the upcoming Sleepy Hollow movie all the more, which is also based on the Washington Irving story...well, sort of. I'm sure that movie will get it right, unlike this horrible little film. If you were waiting to see this movie on Fox and missed it, believe me, you didn't miss much.