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Rating:  - The legend brought to life.
Johnny Depp delivers his usual quirky, awe inspiring performance.
Tim Burton gives us his dark vision of the fairy tale and succeeds brilliantly.
The script, the fx, the acting, pretty much everything is first rate.
A tad bloody but it's not that bad.
The music is good too.
What's bad about this movie?
Absolutely NOTHING!!!!!!!
A brilliant masterpiece that deserves to be seen.
Another Burton must have/must see.
Rating: - One of the scariest movies I've ever seen.
It's one of the scariest movies I've ever seen. The scenes look scary. The acting and action are good. It's suspenseful from the beginning till the end.
Rating:  - Just ok.
The transfer to HD DVD on this is just ok. My advice would be to buy the regular dvd. I know that its the way it was shot its suppose to look grainy. But when it comes to HD its just not worth it for Grainy movies unless you just buy it for the sound.
Best bet, Go find the dvd for 4.99
Rating:  - Not for those looking for Irving's classic
If you're just looking to watch a Johnny Depp movie and don't really care whether it's made up or supposedly based on something then this movie is fine to watch. Unfortunately, if you're looking to watch a movie based on Washington Irving's classic story then this movie isn't really for you. Yes, it can claim to be based on Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" but only very loosely. Only the names of less than a handful main characters and where the story takes place comes from Irving's story. The rest of Sleepy Hollow is so extremely far from "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" that if it were not for the Galloping Hessian of the Hollow (in otherwords the Headless Horseman) the names of the characters and location could be changed and still tell the same exact story without anyone suspecting any link to Washington Irving.
I saw this expecting the usual Hollywood adaptation of a book (or in this case short story), which is to say it's based on the book but things are altered. I was more than extremely disappointed to find out it really couldn't claim much in the way of being based on a story I love. Ichabod Crane is a school teacher from Connecticut, not some constable from New York City sent out to investigate things. Katrinia van Tassel doesn't practice witchcraft. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" isn't some kind of horror laden murder mystery. It's more about Ichabod's intrest in winning the heart of the young Katrina as much out of greed for inheirting her father's fortune (Baltus van Tassel was, after all, a wealthy farmer) as his actual genuine intrest in her. And as much as it was a bit of a love story it was also a ghost story. Those who have never read "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" won't know that Brom Bones (Abraham van Brunt) is suspected to know to much about what happened the night the Horseman chased his rival for Katrina's affections away (nor will they know Katrina turned down Ichabod's affections with her and may have actually been toying with him all along), Irving seems to suggest the horseman that night was Bones at one moment then at the next reveals that the good Dutch housewives of that part of New York know it was really the ghost of the Hessian soldier. They won't know how Ichabod delighted in reading a book by Cotton Mather on Witchcraft in New England even though it terrified him so at night. They'll be likely to believe that if they watch "Sleepy Hollow" they'll know what "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is about.
This movie isn't for those looking for "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Disney's animated classic is much closer to Irving's story than this. I've seen a couple others, one starring Jeff Goldblum from around the early eighties and one more recently aired on Halmark Channel that are more closely based on the story than this movie should even be allowed to claim. If you don't care about it, then this movie may appeal to you. But if you really want to see a half-way decent adaptation, then do yourself a favor and steer clear of this movie.
Rating: - Sleepy Hollow
Great movie, wrong format. HD is dead and stinkin'. I returned the two HD movies I bought because I thought they were Blu-Ray. I did not realize that HD movie format DVD's were being unloaded on the public who is dumb enough to buy them (like me),when HD is gone the way of the Do Do Bird. Got any Beta format movies? How about some 8 track tapes?
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