Word: burtonisms
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...Osterweil Anders, Marco Perry Basile, Maureen Eleise Boyle, Ecaterina Ruth Burton, Joyce Chun-Ling Chang, Frederic Nolan Clark, Eva Lopatin Dickerman, Bradford James Diephuis, Harrison Ross Greenbaum, Samantha Lauren Groden, Elizabeth Maryanne Grosso, Adam Michael Guren, David Kautsky Hausman, Nicholas Christian Hayes, Amy Patricia Heinzerling, Erika Christine Helgen, Miriam Reisner Hinman, Stephen Ho, Tin-Yun Timothy Ho, Anthony John Inguaggiato, Kathleen Elizabeth Jacobs, David Jiang, Rohan Kekre, Alyssa Elizabeth Stimson King, Ajay Ganesh Kumar, Benjamin Jiawei Lee, Luke Xiru Li, Yin Li, Paul Peter Linden-Retek, Karan Lodha, Matthew Ryan McFarlane, Taylor Mayly Owings, Aadhithi Padmanabhan, Allen James Pope, Tony...
Starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman. Directed by Tim Burton. Opens...
Johnny Depp returns with director Tim Burton! Johnny Depp gets to murder people with much splatter! Johnny Depp sings! Let's face it, the curiosity meter on this one is turned to 11. And it was even before Depp got poliosis (that's the medical term for that goofy white forelock he's sporting...
...their cinematic fantasy fairly realistic, the better to suspend disbelief. But in reality, only crazy people break into song in the course of regular conversation. Conversely, the weirder the movie musical is, the better it appears to work (see Moulin Rouge! or Chicago). This would seem to play to Burton's and Depp's strengths...
...With Burton at the helm, for example, we know the film will be visually front-loaded. His London is very murky and dark, its citizens very pale and sickly, the better perhaps to complement all the blood they're about to be sloshing around in--or to remind us of old black-and-white horror films. We also know there will be an abundance of quirk. What's not certain is whether the film can find an audience. Will the buckets of gore and the presence of the erstwhile Captain Jack Sparrow--not to mention an appearance by Borat...