Though I find Burton needlessly artsy as a director, here that tendency serves him frightfully well, as he manages to do the near-impossible make a film about someone that plays like one of their films (the abysmal Dragon is a shining example of how NOT to do this).
But the love that Burton has for Wood and his movies shines through in every frame. It isn't necessarily a happy story, and Burton wisely only tells a small sliver of it, from Ed's first movie, Glen or Glenda, through the premiere of Plan Nine. Ed Wood, of course, chronicles the Hollywood career of its eponymous subject, truly one screwed up individual a cross-dresser with a fetish for angora, Wood churned out one horrifically bad film after another, culminating with Plan Nine From Outer Space, before descending into crappy porn films toward the end of his life. But sometimes good things really are worth the wait. Given the subject matter, this just wasn't a movie I was interested in for a long time.
I'm not really a big fan of Tim Burton, and while I never had anything against him, I've only recently started to enjoy Johnny Depp's work. It's sort of embarrassing to admit it took me ten years to see this film.
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