Collection of eight films from director Tim Burton. In 'Batman'
(1989) the streets of Gotham City are no longer safe for
criminals, who are being picked off by a ed vigilante in a
rubber suit - dubbed 'Batman' by the press. Reporter Alexander
Knox (Robert Wuhl) teams with photographer Vicki Vale (Kim
Basinger) in an attempt to discover Batman's true identity - an
investigation which leads them to the door of mysterious
millionaire Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton). Meanwhile, crime boss
Carl Grissom (Jack Palance)'s attempt to rid himself of
untrustworthy henchman Jack Napier (Jack Nicholson) does not go
according to plan, and after emerging physically - and mentally -
disfigured from a vat of s, Napier reinvents himself as
the psychotic Joker... In 'Batman Returns' (1992) Oswald
Cobblepot (Danny DeVito), who was abandoned by his parents as a
baby 33 earlier, is bent on revenge and returns to Gotham City as
the Penguin. First he begins a warped campaign to become Mayor,
helped by millionaire businessman Max Shreck (Christopher
Walken), and then he undertakes a mission to murder every first
born son in Gotham - a plan which will avenge his own beginnings.
Meanwhile, he has two adversaries to contend with: Catwoman
(Michelle Pfeiffer), the embittered ex-secretary of Max Shreck,
and, of course, the old caped crusader himself - Batman. 'Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory' (2005), based on the novel by Roald
Dahl, follows eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) and
Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore), a good-hearted boy from a poor
family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's extraordinary factory.
Most nights in the Bucket home, dinner is a watered-down of
cabbage soup, which young Charlie gladly shares with his mother
(Helena Bonham Carter) and her (Noah Taylor) and both pairs of
grandparents. They all live in a tiny, tumbledown, drafty old
house but it is filled with love. Every night, the last thing
Charlie sees from his window is the great factory, and he drifts
off to dreaming about what might be inside. For nearly 15
years, no one has seen a single worker going in or coming out of
the factory, or caught a glimpse of Willy Wonka himself, yet,
mysteriously, great quantities of chocolate are still being made
and shipped to shops all over the world. One day Willy Wonka
makes a momentous announcement. He will open his famous factory
and reveal 'all of its secrets and magic' to five lucky children
who find golden tickets hidden inside five randomly selected
Wonka chocolate bars. When Charlie finds some money on the snowy
street and takes it to the nearest store for a Wonka
Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight he finds a golden ticket.
The family decides that Grandpa Joe (David Kelly) should be the
one to accompany Charlie on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure.
Once inside, Charlie is dazzled by one amazing after
another. In 'Mars Attacks!' (1996) Martians arrive on planet
Earth and American President James Dale (Nicholson) is persuaded
to extend the hand of friendship. One of the President's
advisers, Donald Kessler (Pierce Brosnan), has been studying the
aliens and is keen to make peaceful contact. However, the
Martians gleefully fry their greeting party from Earth and launch
an all-out attack on the planet. In 'Beetlejuice' (1988) the
Maitlands (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin) are a happy couple who,
when killed in a car c, return as ghosts to their beloved
home to wreak havoc on the ghastly yuppie family who have moved
in. Being novices at haunting, their efforts go unnoticed by the
house's new inhabitants except for goth daughter Lydia (Winona
Ryder), who doesn't mind one bit. At their wit's end, the ghostly
couple call on a despicably disgusting demon named 'Beetlejuice'
(Keaton) for help. The animated 'Corpse Bride' (2005), set in a
19th century European village, follows Victor (voiced by Depp), a
young man who is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a
mysterious Corpse Bride (Bonham Carter), while his real bride,
Victoria (Emily Watson), waits bereft in the land of the living.
Though life in the Land of the Dead proves to be a lot more
colourful than his strict Victorian upbringing, Victor learns
that there is nothing in this world, or the next, that can keep
him away from his one true love. Musical 'Sweeney Todd - the
Demon Barber of Fleet Street' (2007), based on a 'penny dreadful'
tale (which later became an urban myth) from the mid-19th
century, tells the tale of Benjamin Barker (Depp), a barber who
returns to London after spending years in exile for a crime he
didn't commit. He soon discovers from pie-maker Mrs Lovett
(Bonham Carter) that, in his absence, his wife has taken her own
life and his daughter is now in the care of the man who had him
sent away - the dastardly Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman). Seeking
revenge and filled with a murderous rage, Barker sets up a
barber's shop above Mrs Lovett's premises. Now calling himself
Sweeney Todd, Barker kills off all his customers with a razor to
the throat and sends their cadavers to the shop below to be used
as a tasty new filling for Mrs Lovett's meat pies. What was once
the worst pie shop in London quickly becomes one of the city's
most popular eateries, but Barker won't be satisfied until he can
lure Judge Turpin into the barber's chair... Finally, 'Pee-wee's
Big Adventure' (1985) follows man-child Pee-wee Herman (Paul
Reubens) who goes on an adventure to recover his new bicycle
after it is stolen. Along the way he encounters bikers, bums,
convicts and a phantom trucker.
