All 1. 8 Tim Burton Movies Ranked, From Worst to Best PhotosHow does Tim Burtons Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children stack up with the offbeat auteurs other films, like Batman and Edward Scissorhands Disney. Alice in Wonderland 2. At its best, Burtons work can feel like a wonderful amalgam of illustrators Charles Addams, Edward Gorey and Gahan Wilson as filtered through vintage EC Comics and the filmmakers own wonderfully warped sensibilities. At its worst, its a dull Hot Topic catalog. I/51UrWANApJL._SY450_.jpg' alt='Tim Burton`S Corpse Bride Full Movie' title='Tim Burton`S Corpse Bride Full Movie' />Welcome to the worst. Century Fox. 17. Planet of the Apes 2. One of those remakes so colossally misguided that one questions whether or not the director had any affection for the source material in the first place Burtons interest seems to begin and end with making cool looking apes. Matching the impact of the originals ending was impossible, but the climax involving Mark Wahlberg and a much changed Lincoln Memorial was merely chuckle inducing. Warner Bros. 1. 6. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2. Speaking of rotten remakes Gene Wilder, star of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, once referred to Burtons misbegotten take on the Roald Dahl novel as an insult, which pretty much says it all. The upsides to this otherwise unnecessary version Deep Roy as all the Oompa Loompas, and Danny Elfmans psychedelic bubblegum Veruca Salt song. Warner Bros. Dark Shadows 2. Another existing property you would think might fall squarely into Burtons wheelhouse was the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, but this, too, ranks among his biggest failures. Get ready for a hefty dose of Johnny Depp and Danny Elfman as we rank the beautifully macabre world of Tim Burtondirected films. There are a lot of things I miss from the old Star Wars Legends timeline. Kyle Katarn. Synthetic lightsaber crystals. Mara Jade. But what I really pine for are the. How does Tim Burtons Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children stack up with the offbeat auteurs other films, like Batman and Edward ScissorhandsThe attempts at wackiness are strained, and by 2. Johnny Depp playing dress up. Century Fox. 14. Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children 2. Like Dark Shadows, the creepy YA novel sounds tailor made for Burtons brand of phantasmagoria, but the results are charmless, simultaneously lacking in characterization and overloaded with exposition. There are some visual shout outs to earlier, better Burton movies, which youre better off watching instead. Universal. 13. Big Fish 2. As close to serious drama as Burton has yet attempted, this maudlin fantasy follows a son Billy Crudup parsing the fact and the fiction from the life of his dying father Albert Finney Ewan Mc. Gregor, giving one of his ouch iest American accents to date, plays young Finney. Bloated with whimsy, the movie lived on as a Broadway musical thats become popular in regional productions. Warner Bros. 1. 2. Mars Attacks 1. Before toys and board games became ripe fodder for big screen adaptations, Burton turned a series of Topps bubble gum cards into a wildly extravagant homage to vintage flying saucer movies. Its more fun to look at the stills than to actually watch the movie, but there are some joys to be found in it, from Jack Nicholsons apoplectic POTUS to the cinemas best use to date of the music of Slim Whitman. The Weinstein Company. Big Eyes 2. 01. 4. Burtons reunion with screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski Ed Wood didnt exactly cause lightning to strike twice, although theres some lovely period detail and a powerful performance by Amy Adams in this salute to kitsch portraitist Margaret Keane Adams, who spent much of her career cranking out the beloved paintings for which her husband a scenery chewing Christoph Waltz took the credit. Warner Bros. 1. 0. Corpse Bride 2. 00. Theres a certain gloomy charm to this stop motion animated feature about a nervous groom voiced by Johnny Depp who accidentally summons the titular spirit Helena Bonham Carter, but as a collaboration between Depp and Laika Studios it pales in comparison to what was The Nightmare Before Christmas, which Burton conceived but didnt direct and what would be Coraline, Para. Tim Burton`S Corpse Bride Full Movie' title='Tim Burton`S Corpse Bride Full Movie' />Tim Burtons Corpse Bride summary of box office results, charts and release information and related links. The Nightmare Face trope as used in popular culture. The human face is supremely important on a social and biological level. Most of our nonverbal. Norman and the other later titles from Laika. Paramount. 9. Sleepy Hollow 1. This steampunk procedural is second tier Burton, but its a fun little period whodunit, spiced with delectable production design and the chemistry between Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. Unlike other adaptations where Burton seems to lose the thread, the director and screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker treat the Washington Irving material as a jumping off point for more Burton ian interests. Warner Bros. 8. Batman 1. The modern superhero movie starts here, as Burton and famed art director Anton Furst dug into Frank Millers The Dark Knight Returns graphic novel and gave the big screen a Batman and a Gotham City that was on the other end of the universe from the campy 1. TV iteration. Its overlong and not always sharply written, but it forever changed the approach to comics to film adaptations. Dreamworks. 7. Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2. Stephen Sondheims most homicidal musical found the right big screen shepherd in Burton, who serves up plenty of grime and grit in his vision of Victorian London but also understands his characters drives, be they grand his barber heros thirst for vengeance or mundane a bakers dreams of a house at the seaside. Disney. 6. Frankenweenie 2. At some point, movies stopped scaring children, but even little kids deserve some spine tingling horror of their own. This feature length animated version of an early Burton live action short brilliantly melds together many of his obsessions suburbia and old monster movies in particular resulting in fun and fright in equal doses. Century Fox. 5. Edward Scissorhands 1. The best of Burtons somber heroes wear the cloak of the misunderstood monster, his frightening appearance belying the tender soul that lurks within. Arguably his greatest is poor Edward, who wants only to love and to create beauty, but who will always be an outcast because of those damn scissorhands. Warner Bros. 4. Batman Returns 1. The box office triumph of the first Batman allowed Burton to dig deeper into his own vision, and the result is a one of a kind freak show written by Daniel Waters from a story by Waters and Sam Hamm that pits the Dark Knight against the grotesque Penguin Danny De. Vito and the slinky Catwoman Michelle Pfeiffer in a snowy, Christmastime Gotham City that appears to have been designed by Dr. Caligari and a crew of German expressionists. Warner Bros. 3. Beetlejuice 1. Before donning Batmans cowl and Bruce Waynes dressing gown, Michael Keaton played the wonderfully unhinged title character in Burtons rollicking farce about kind hearted ghosts Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis who haunt their own house when awful yuppies turn it into a 1. Winona Ryder, channeling Bud Cort in Harold and Maude, instantly became a Goth girl pinup for a generation. Warner Bros. 2. Pee Wees Big Adventure 1. One of the great picaresque road movies in cinema history, this tale of Pee wee Herman Paul Reubens and his quest to recover his stolen bike marked Burtons feature debut, yet it established so much of what he would do best in film, from spotlighting an outsider hero who lives by his own rules to the directors singular mix of kitsch, horror, animation and jubilant weirdness. Buena Vista Pictures. Ed Wood 1. 99. 4. Writers Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander The People vs. Larry Flynt, American Crime Story The People vs. O. J. Simpson have established themselves as the masters of telling the story of America through the eyes of its oddballs, and their sensibility blended perfectly with Burtons, who clearly saw a lot of himself in this story of a singular, devoted artist with a love of old monster movies and a drive to tell his stories. Its one of the greatest movies about Hollywood, about risk, about determination, about art, ever made. All Of Tim Burtons Movies, Ranked. Since the masses were introduced to both Tim Burton and Pee wee Herman, with Pee Wees Big Adventure in 1. Burton has helmed a total of 1. Its been a weird and wonderful ride through darkly surreal characters and landscapes, the occasional big budget blockbuster, a musical, and even a couple of animated kids films and even they are infused with that characteristic Burton dark humor. To be clear, this is a ranking only of films he has directed. He has injected some of his slightly askew sensibilities as producer in a bunch of others, including The Nightmare Before Christmas, which many people assume he directed because it looks and feels so much like a movie Burton would have directed, but was actually helmed by Henry Selick. So turn on some Danny Elfman music and get ready to feel enjoyably uncomfortable as we help you reminisce through this list of All of Tim Burtons Movies, Ranked. Dark Shadows. Unfortunately, we have to start with one of the rare cases where Tim Burton just got it all wrong. The source material, on the other hand, got it all right. The original Dark Shadows is a cult classic gothic soap opera that aired from 1. Collins family, including the vampire Barnabas, and a host of other monsters, witches and ghouls. For his 2. 01. 2 adaptation, Burton easily lured in frequent collaborator Johnny Depp, who also signed up as a co producer because he loved the show and Barnabas so much. So, considering the source material, and Depp and Burtons love for it, what could possibly go wrong Goofiness. Thats what went wrong. They focused more on the goofy, campy fish out of water comedy inherent in a 2. We will say, though, that the darkly beautiful visuals weve come to know and love from Burton were still there. Planet of the Apes. Theres clearly something about late 6. Burton is attracted to but has no idea how to translate to contemporary audiences. That was true with Dark Shadows and now again with Planet of the Apes, Burtons 2. Download The New Shrek 5 Movie. Mark Wahlberg. It wasnt a strict remake of the 1. Charlton Heston, with a different main character and, perhaps even more significantly, a different ending. The ending of the original features an infamous twist, which we wont spoil for the two of you who arent aware of it. Burtons ending was a little more faithful to the novel that inspired the 6. In the DVD audio commentary, Burton shrugs the ending off as a cliffhanger springboard for a sequel which was never made the series rebooted more successfully 1. Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Still, there are a few things to enjoy here Tim Roths villainous performance and Rick Bakers fantastic ape makeup among them. Alice in Wonderland. Financially, Burtons 2. Alice in Wonderland was a Jabberwocky sized success, earning over 1 billion and becoming his biggest box office success. No surprise, it earned a sequel, Alice Through the Looking Glass, which premieres May 2. Burton gets a producer credit on that one, but didnt direct. A Disney production, kids loved it, it was boosted by Depps star power as the Mad Hatter, and it truly was visually stunning, so its not all that surprising that it fared so well around the world. Critically, on the other hand, there are a number of bones to pick. Burton was definitely the ideal director to take on the original Lewis Carroll novels surreal characters, situations and settings. Whats strange is he robbed it of much of its heart a trait thats so strong in much of Burtons best work. Alice herself is more of a plot device than a true character, and the third act falls flat thanks in large part to a bombastic CGI battle scene, which was borrowed from the video game American Mc. Gees Alice, but seemed out of place in Carrolls Wonderland. Sleepy Hollow. Way back in 1. Washington Irving published a creepy tale called The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, where a schoolmaster named Ichabod Crane is tortured by the legend, and possibly reality, of a ghostly headless horseman. At the end of the story, the horseman ghost or not kills Crane. In 1. 99. 9, Burton brought the tale to the big screen with, obviously, Depp as Crane in Sleepy Hollow. But Depp wasnt the Crane weve come to know and love in the original tale and most other adaptations. The original was a superstitious schoolmaster, Depps was a skeptical cop. Many other liberties were taken with the plot. In fact, there are few similarities to the source material other than a character named Ichabod, a headless horseman and the setting of Sleepy Hollow. Even the ending, which we wont spoil, is massively different. As always, though, with Burton movies, its worth watching for the visuals alone. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Heres the funny thing despite the name change, 1. Willy Wonka the Chocolate Factory was more faithful though to be fair, not completely faithful to Roald Dahls original book than Burtons faithfully named 2. Charlie the Chocolate Factory. To no ones surprise, Depp played Willy Wonka in this one, and it was a downright weird portrayal. And not weird in the Tim Burtons films are wonderfully weird sense. That would have been perfect. No, this was just weird. Like way too influenced by Michael Jacksons controversial later years weird. Burtons film also introduced an entirely new and unnecessary plotline involving Wonkas father as a device to explain Wonkas odd behavior. Really, both films can be criticized for focusing too much on Wonka and less on the films hero, Charlie Bucket, who was wonderfully portrayed by a young Freddie Highmore. However, the film was a big box office draw, thanks to the kid factor. Mars Attacks Coming off the critical acclaim of Ed Wood, which was a departure for Burton in many ways, he returned with Mars AttacksIt was both a parody of the kinds of B movies the real Ed Wood made and a motion picture take on the Mars Attacks trading cards series. When we say his weirdo guns were ablaze, we mean it. Of course, Burtons trademark is that beautiful weirdness, and hes rightfully beloved for it. But here he took it to the extreme. Lets just say this Johnny Depp actually turned down a role in this one. Although, truth be told, some people love it because its so far out there, in a cult kind of way. In his review, Roger Ebert said it best of this star studded affair Ed Wood himself could have told us whats wrong with this movie the makers felt superior to the material. To be funny, even schlock has to believe in itself. Much of the dark humor just didnt land, and it showed at the box office. Big Eyes. Heres Burtons most recent offering, from 2. Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children, opening in September. And its a rare case of a small budget, limited release film for the veteran director, with the budget coming in at just 1. Big Eyes is also a departure for Burton because it lacks much of the weirdness of most of his films. Its a straight up bio pic about Margaret Keane Amy Adams, whose husband Walter Christoph Walz took credit for her paintings of people with big eyes. Its absolutely a solid film. In fact, it won Adams a Golden Globe for Best Actress Comedy or Musical. It just doesnt have that typical Burton voice. We might even rank it higher on an average directors list, but Burton is no average director. We hold him up to a higher read weirder standard. Frankenweenie. 20. Frankenweenie, based on Burtons 1. Frankenstein story about a wiener dog. The black and white stop motion film represents the second animated film Burton directed and the fourth he produced, and despite being a Disney childrens movie, it certainly features some of the trademark Burton dark humor, as a loving parody of the classic Frankensteinfilms.