Review of Sleepy Hollow (1911) by Martin C — 06 May 2012

I was quite unimpressed with Sleepy Hollow. It's cool that it's based on the American fairytale, but it just seems like a Sherlock Holmes wannabe. While Johnny Depp was great, he is certainly no Robert Downey Jr.

You can definitely tell it's a Tim Burton movie because A. Johnny Depp is in it and B. it has that weird sense of humor and style. Oddly enough, I remember liking this movie when I saw it for the first time a few years ago.

I guess after seeing more of Tim Burton's work I realized how inferior this one is to the rest of his films. When you really look at it, Sleepy Hollow isn't much more than The Headless Horseman trotting around chopping heads off and Johnny Depp investigating the crime scenes.

If there's anything good I can pull out of Sleepy Hollow, it would be it's bleak and good looking style and Tim Burton's sense of humor.