Overview
- The new retrospectives reaffirm the movie as a defining early collaboration for Tim Burton and Johnny Depp.
- Writers emphasize the film’s portrait of an outsider to critique suburban conformity without turning the story into spectacle.
- An official continuation exists in an IDW Publishing comic series that extends the narrative without undoing the film’s self-contained ending.
- The comic follow-up remained largely unnoticed beyond comics readers, despite staying faithful to the tone and themes.
- The film is currently available to stream, with outlets noting it on Hulu and also on Disney+.