Tim's a great director, don't get me wrong... but he's settled on into habits, and his movies all seem the same now. Not in a his films all have a unified theme or thread... but basically everything he's done lately is basically the same. And yes, I shouldn't get him on using the same two actors that he's comfortable with... I should get him ON his comfort zone. Now, unlike most older directors, he hasn't become an old fart reliant on new technology... I give him credit for that. But sometimes it's good to stretch... give someone BESIDES Johnny a leading role. Stop trying to pair Johnny up with his wife and all... do something different, but not too different. I want to see the man behind Pee Wee's Adventure, Beetlejuice, and Big Fish, not the man behind Alice in Wonderland and Sweeny Todd. I like those films, sure... but I find them over rated out of everything else he did (face it, Alice in Wonderland did NOT need another goth facelift).Tim Burton might not be the best director in Hollywood (I'd like to see the fight that erupts when someone tries to take that mantle, but that's an apple for another day), but he wouldn't think that he could get away with making a Batman movie without Batman.
Again, I approve of his films a MILLIONZILLION times more than Zermeckis's motion capture claptrap, Lucas's "OOH! I THINK I want to add a musical number and 5 CGI characters in this old movie," and M. Night Shaggyfromscoobydoo's ...uhm... whatever the crap you call his increasingly terrible films. But he needs to break out of the stylish comfort zone and do something strange AND new.