Herald rating: * * *
Running time: 100 mins
In stores: Now
Review: Ewan McDoanld
Perhaps it's best not to delve into what happened in the childhoods of director Tim Burton and star Johnny Depp to enable them to produce Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood and now this extraordinary excursion into horror.
Drawing on
but not faithful to the 19th Century classic by American writer Washington Irving, Depp plays turn-of-the-19th-century detective Ichabod Crane, banished Gambon), his daughter (Christina Ricci), her stepmother (Miranda Richardson) and the magistrate (portly Richard Griffiths of TV's Pie In The Sky).
Naturally, human nature being what it is, the local Headless Horseman gets the blame from locals including rich Baltus Van Tassel (Michael Gambon), his daughter (Christina Ricci), her stepmother (Miranda Richardson) and the magistrate (portly Richard Griffiths of TV's Pie In The Sky).
Depp has to keep his head while all about him are losing theirs: he and Burton take you along on quite a ride.
