Tim Burton used to be one of my favorite creative forces in Hollywood. I loved his short films, I loved everything he did up until Planet of the Apes… with the exception of Big Fish… and from there he fell and fell hard. Very hard. I’m sorry. He just did. The Corpse Bride was a shell of a movie with unmemorable songs and paper thin characters. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was self indulgent and worthless (but with great set design!). Big Fish was a great film but not without it’s problems…
Tim Burtons next project is Sweeny Todd which may or may not be worthwhile time will tell.

Well earlier this week Variety announced his next two projects and both of them have me going “meh…”

First up is a remake of Alice in Wonderland; more based on the original novel they say. Well we know how that goes (i.e. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). Burton will be combining live action with mo-cap 3D Animation for the film and Disney is putting it out of course.

After that Burton will be going back to the well one more time and putting out a Feature Length version of his 1984 short film “Frankenweenie” which was, honestly, too long to begin with. At around 30 minutes or so the story plodded along at what felt like a snails pace and ended pretty much right where it needed to before it bored the viewer to death…

So expect 60 more minutes of it everyone — with a CG Dog I presume, since they announced as well that it will also be live action and mo-cap 3D Animation just like Alice.

Sorry… just MEH…