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Summary: "SLEEPY HOLLOW" GREAT MODERN DAY HORROR MOVIE!
Review: I SAW THIS MOVIE IN THEATRES AND LET ME SAY IT WAS WONDERFUL. ACTING DIRECTING COSTUMES AND CINEMATOGRAPHY WERE ALL SUPERB, NOT TO MENTION THE SCRIPT. IT WAS A GREAT HORROR MOVIE THAT I WILL DEFINATELY ADD TO MY DVD COLLECTION
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Summary: Tim Burton does it again!
Review: Tim Burton and Johnny Depp team up again for a big thriller! Christina Ricci and Johnny Depp did a great job acting out Katrina and Ichabod! The special affects rocked and Christopher Walken was the scariest Horseman. The scenary was amazing! I will recomend this movie to anyone with a good sense of humor and a strong stomach!
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Summary: Scooby-do where are you?
Review: A good little flick to rent every other Halloween, but that's it. This movie works better on a huge screen due to the visual stylings and mood lighting it depends on most of the time. Unfortunately, Ricci's too busy wanting to look "attractive" in every scene she's in. She looks like she reads her lines in every given situation, and crazy Chris Walken is just a little too cartoony. Maybe Burton should've gone with stop-motion animation on this project as well. (Check out a much better Depp film and performance in Jim Jarsmuch's "Dead Man", then we can talk).
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Summary: Horror without the schlock
Review: A new Tim Burton movie is an event at the best of times, even for us limeys, so I was straight down to my local theatre on opening night - and boy was I not disappointed! Visually magnificent, as is par for the course with films by this maestro, but also enthralling, spooky and witty. A modern tip of of the hat to the classic Hammer pictures of the 60's, with a Christopher Lee cameo to really push it home! Just one question though - If it's set in the States, and the characters are all descended from the Dutch, why do they all speak with bad English accents...!
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Summary: Tie with Titanic.
Review: This awesome flick has every single genre you could think of! Its dramtic, scary, thrilling and hysterical at times.It tells the story of Counstable Ichabod Crane who sets off to Sleepy Hollow to investigate decapitatwd murders done by the so-called horseman. People who are trashing Christina for this role and film - get a life! Ricci has grown up and deserves a role in a big time thriller. Leave her be! THIS MOVIE RULZ!
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Summary: Rebirth of a Classic
Review: My what a film. This picture draws you in, and never lets go. It's nice to see a revival of such a wonderful story. Christina Ricci is marvelous as Katrina, and Johnny Depp provides a fresh take on Ichabod. Probably the best of all was Christopher Walken, whose time was short, yet powerful enough to scare this seasoned horror fan out of her seat. It would be a shame not to see this film nominated for the visual effects. Truely haunting.
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Summary: wear this close to your heart
Review: this movie has taken an american ghost story and turned it into an american movie legend. The acting, costumes and cinemetography was absolutley amazing.the lines were witty and the characters were intresting. this will be an american movie classic
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Summary: Heads will roll !
Review: "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" which tells the tale of a lowly school teacher who must face his greatest fear and become a man. The Washington Irving classic will always be remembered as the "headless horseman" tale with flaming pumpkins and an idiot hero. In the 1999 adaptation the hero, Icabod Crane is now a bumbling New York Detective who seems to know more about forensics then his fellow man of that time. As a joke the New York police department sends him to "Sleepy Hollow" to uncover the "decapitating murderer". What Crane finds shocks and changes our hero slowly into a man. "Sleepy Hollow" is by far one of Tim Burton's greatest films. Ever since he captivated the world by bringing the "real" Batman to the big screen, ten years ago, he has always been flirting with making a great gothic horror film. Every film he has touched has been enchanted with gothic charisma. From "Edward Scissorhands" to "Mars Attacks" they have all been laced in his immersion of horror and fairytale. In "Sleepy Hollow" he finds his true calling as he delivers us into his gothic mystique. As he did in the first two Batman films, the camera stands back and then swoops into the great city of New York. Showing the dark and moody world he is trying to capture. As this panoramic tour continues the audience is pulled harder and harder in. This is Tim Burton at his best. The film then drops into Icabod's world where he seems to be the outsider who doesn't quite fit in. The film focuses upon the face of Johnny Depp who is quite pale and wide eyed. In two other Tim Burton films Johnny Depp has opened us to the world of Burton much like Richard Dreyfuss did in early Steven Spielberg films. Depp's portrayal of bumbling Icabod is remnant of "Edward Scissorhands" but even more human. An outsider trying to see past the town's folktale and uncover a real murder. I imagined Icabod to be sort of what happened if Sherlock Holmes stumbled in on Dracula himself. I think even a great detective like Holmes would be bumbling on a case like that. As Icabod explores the town to Sleepy Hollow we are treasured by the presence of other Tim Burton vets like Michael Gough, Jeffery Jones, Christopher Walken and Martin Landau. Icabod upon his arrival falls in love with the damsel Katrina Van Tassel played by Christina Ricci who seems to have something in common with Icabod's past. As we uncover the mysterious damsel Burton seems to let his film talk about what exactly is witchcraft and why skeptics don't understand it. This tugs at Icabod's dreams and his heart strings. Ricci's Katrina is not exactly a damsel in distress but a delightful addition to her growing repertoire of strong women roles. She has come along way from being Wednesday Addams. When the film finally hits it stride with the first encounter with the horseman we are already engulfed in the dark magic of Sleepy Hollow and the bewilderment of Icabod. Sleepy Hollow will be remembered as one of Tim Burton's masterpieces.
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Summary: Riccilicious
Review: Christina Ricci and Johnny Depp in the same flick, and it's a Burton movie? And it's massive goth? Man, I am in heaven! I can't wait for this to come out on VHS! This is a must have if for no other reason that to see Christina!
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Summary: Yesssss, Johnny, scare me....but let's do without the cheese
Review: odd! Good retelling of Irving Washington's classic tale, fabulous period acting from Depp, lovely moody look to the piece....so why only 3 stars? Well, I enjoyed how they were staying away from the usual "horror--movie" cheap--looking special effects, but what do they do but pull out a witch who looks like last year's budget Halloween costume? If she had simply been a wraith it would ahve been so much better. The other problem was that Ricci's performance seemed rather wooden, forced, as if she were trying her best to be so serious that she lost everything else she had. Criticisms aside, this film is very, very funny, Depp's performnance as a less--than--macho--man is extremely refreshing and very attractive, and the five or so times he faints are some of the funniest moments--by the third one I was thinking, oops, there he goes again! Ouch! All in all, I'm sorry for the 3 stars, but it deserved them. Still, i think you should see it....
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