The movie was total
eye candy; I wouldn't
expect any less from
Tim Burton.
I was a big fan of the original
Washington Irving story, which takes
less time to read than this movie
takes to watch.
What's interesting, though, is that
Irving had a very
dark sense of humor, and the short story is infused with several
macabre references to death and
decapitation. It would have been interesting to see Burton incorporate more of these into the flick; my companion and I found the movie
very funny, usually uninentionally so. The few attempts at humor seemed very
flat and
out-of-place, and that's sad considering
what might have been.
Interestingly enough, I went to high school with a girl name
Katie Van Tassell, who somewhat resembled
Katrina Van Tassell -
Christina Ricci's character in the movie.