Average Rating: 7.9/10
Reviews Counted: 58
Fresh: 53 | Rotten: 5
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp team up to fete the life and work of cult hero Ed Wood, with typically strange and wonderful results.
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 3
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp team up to fete the life and work of cult hero Ed Wood, with typically strange and wonderful results.
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Average Rating: 3.7/5
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Hollywood visionary Tim Burton pays homage to another Hollywood visionary, albeit a less successful one, in this unusual fictionalized biography. The film follows Wood (Johnny Depp) in his quest for film greatness as he writes and directs turkey after turkey, cross-dresses, and surrounds himself with a motley crew of Hollywood misfits, outcasts, has-beens, and never-weres. The real story, however, is his friendship with aging, morphine-addicted Bela Lugosi (Martin Landau), whom he tries to help
Sep 28, 1994 Wide
Aug 13, 2002
Buena Vista Pictures
All Critics (58) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (63) | Rotten (5) | DVD (40)
Beguiling rather than thrilling, oddly charming instead of transporting, meaning that Disney will have its work cut out for it with what is at heart a cult movie and a film buff's dream.
Mr. Depp isn't best known as a comic actor, but he gives a witty and captivating performance, bringing wonderful buoyancy to this crazy role.
Outrageously disjointed and just as outrageously entertaining, the picture stands as a successful outsider's tribute to a failed kindred spirit.
The movie's black and white photography convincingly recaptures the look and feel of 1950s sleaze, including some of the least convincing special effects in movie history.
Making a movie about the life of Ed Wood certainly qualifies as an impossible dream, but Burton has pulled it off with wit, imagination and something amazingly close to grace.
In his finest, funniest, most poignant film to date, Tim Burton plays cinematic alchemist, turning drive-in schlock into movie gold.
Depp-led cult-director bio delves into cross-dressing, kink.
Typically, Burton's storytelling is sometimes erratic, but his emphasis on humanizing marginal characters -- a project that seems central to his artistic agenda -- is as strong as ever.
The film's greatest achievement is to avoid the easy, patronizing laughs and instead see the near heroic qualities of a patently untalented artist.
It's refreshing to see Burton in a relatively upbeat mood, but he picked the wrong story to give an optimistic spin.
I loved the acting, Johnny Depp and Landau are awesome, the B&W look is perfect and the story is kind of cute, but where is the genius in this flick? Am I missing something?
[Tim Burton's] own jazz-hands dance to the spirit of movie-making.
Buena Vista Home Video's long-delayed DVD release of Ed Wood makes the wait worthwhile.... The chief attraction among the extras is the informative and entertaining commentary audio with Tim Burton, Martin Landau....
It certainly succeeds as a funny, touching tribute to tenacity, energy, ambition and friendship.
Droll and witty, Burton's tribute evokes the career of Hollywood's "worst" director by making a most stylishly polished production
My favorite deleted scene: Bill Murray as Wood's transsexual wanna-be crony serenading a mariachi band in a meat locker with "Que Sera Sera" in an eccentric sexual swoon.
Landau is wonderfully real, and with the movie's humor providing an ideal counterbalance, his touching performance enriches the film tremendously, and legitimizes it.
If you love movies, you've got a little Ed Wood inside you.
Tim Burton, fidèle à son talent et à sa réputation, transforme un scénario déjà bien concocté en un film des plus divertissants
A gentle valentine that celebrates the creative spirit, no matter how misguided that particular spirit happens to be.
This delightful film focuses on the more telling years when Edward D. Wood did what he did to become who he is...
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: Cut! That was perfect! "When it came to making bad movies, Ed Wood was the best."My new favorite Tim Burton film. Ed Wood is a superb biography of the Worst Director of All-time. The film is hilarious because of how Burton and Depp approach Ed Wood. They don't completely make an ass out of him, but
November 28, 2011
Super Reviewer
Burton and Depp show why they are a perfect match in this fantastic film.
November 20, 2011Super Reviewer
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